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rahmant
rahmant
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May 9, 2020
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Eval VM Fortigate (v6.2.3) and admin GUI self-signed certificate access

  • May 9, 2020
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I've spun up an eval Fortigate VM running in VMware Fusion 11.2.3 on an iMac.

 

I can't seem to get to the running VM's web admin GUI - when I attempt to get to it via Safari or Firefox on my Mac, or MSEdge / Chrome on another Windows 10 based laptop, I get an error message.  I've switched the default HTTPS admin port on the instance to tcp/9500.

 

Error in Safari:

[image]blob:https://forum.fortinet.co...4d29-93fb-e9b11ea7b956[/image]

 

Error in Firefox:

[image]blob:https://forum.fortinet.co...4309-9bfe-f5b0f8258e60[/image]

 

Are there any tricks or gotchas in getting HTTPS based admin access working in a Fortigate VM?

 

Thanks,

 

T.

    3 replies

    abarushka
    Staff
    abarushka
    Staff
    August 26, 2022

    Hello,

     

    You may consider to access the unit running evaluation license via http. Please find the details below:

     

    https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate-private-cloud/6.0.0/fortigate-vm-on-vmware-esxi/504166/fortigate-vm-virtual-appliance-evaluation-license

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    August 27, 2022

    citation from that document: "Low encryption only (no HTTPS administrative access)"

    That says it all, doesn't it?

    Yurisk
    SuperUser
    Yurisk
    SuperUser
    August 28, 2022

    Finally, starting with 7.2.1, Fortinet removed this limitation - now even in the evaluation license the admin https session is normal, using TLS 1.2. Screenshot from FIrefox connected to the eval FortiOS VM 7.2.1:

    fortinet.forum.https.admin.access.png

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