New 60E - no fortiexplorer port.

Forum|Forum|10 years ago
August 29, 2016
13 replies
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Curious if this was a design oversight or they are degrading/discontinuing the fortiexplorer. Disappointing, as it made configs/migrations very easy..

Paul_Dean

Visitor III

Give them some feedback. The original 60D shipped without an RJ45 console port. Later versions had a consoled added to the front.

Do may people use FortiExplorer? It's good for quick setups from an iPad but I'm usually sat at my PC when I set them up via a spare NIC. Not much help when diagnosing hardware faults.

What's your experience of it?

ITGuy11

New Member

I was also disappointed that the 60E that we purchased for a branch office didn't have the usb port.

MikePruett

New Member

I have pretty much stuck to using a USB to serial converter in order to use the built in console ports. FortiExplorer COM access has been spotty for me since the beginning and I got tired of messing with it.

thanson

New Member

i have the same problem with FGT-30E!

Very sad that FN omitted that usb-mgm-port.

ispcolohost

New Member

I greatly prefer a serial port to the usb port, so if they can't do both I like the new format. We deploy 60E's to remote locations and a real console port allows me to hook an OpenGear cellular-based serial router to it for OOB access. Heck, right now I'm staring at a 60D connected to FortiExplorer and I have no font on the CLI tab; I know it's taking what I type because I can guess my way into exec'ing a reboot, but kind of hard to do anything useful when you can't see the text.

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