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August 16, 2026
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Register rental FortiGate 200G firewall

  • August 16, 2026
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Hi,

For one of our customer, I have got the FortiGate 200G firewall as rented device as we are yet to receive our own new firewalls due to lead time. Meanwhile after changing the device password, firewall is asking for Forti care registration which I don't have as this been rental device, is there any way forward for this, I tried skipping the registration from bios but firewall does not boot further with error - Failed to boot the system.

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sjoshi
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August 16, 2026

Enforcement Introduction:

  • In v7.4.8, only FortiGate-20XG and 90XG models had the prompt, and it was possible to configure the devices using CLI before registration.

  • In v7.4.9 and later, most G series models have the FortiCare registration check, and some CLI configuration is restricted

Refer:

 

Thanks, Salon
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