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Sambhu
Sambhu
Explorer III
June 10, 2026
Question

FortiEMS 7.4 - Separate Interface for Management and Telemetry connection

  • June 10, 2026
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Dear Team,

 

  When a FortiEMS virtual machine is deployed using OVA file, it loads with one interface and the default gateway pointing to the same interface. 

Can we have an additional interface ? Because there is a requiremet for dedicated OOB management and Dataplane interface for Forticlient telemetry connction.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticlient/7.4.0/new-features/182605/deploying-ems-as-a-vm-image-7-4-1

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AEK
SuperUser
AEK
SuperUser
June 10, 2026

Hi Sambhu

Sure you can, with command “system set network”.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticlient/7.4.7/ems-administration-guide/182605/deploying-ems-as-a-vm-image

However you must configure the routing properly otherwise you can easily have access issue.

AEK
Sambhu
SambhuAuthor
Explorer III
June 10, 2026

Exactly, the command is just to set ip and gateway. So how do we manage the routing ?

AEK
SuperUser
AEK
SuperUser
June 10, 2026

I see EMS is very weak in routing, I don’t find any command to configure routing. So as you said you can only configure default GW.

So the possible solution I see is to use NAT in the firewall rule that lets you access the OoB interface, and you definitely keep the default GW on the main (traffic) interface.

AEK
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