Hello team,
If you want to restore a config file from a existing FortiGate instance to a new one, there are some edits that needs to be done to make the restore work successfully. They are as follows.
a) Make sure that the port1 configuration is set to DHCP. (This might change in the future, but for the time being always use DHCP). Once the config file is restored, we can create a static route for port1 and set the interface to Static mode. The steps for doing that is in the following url(steps 1 and 2 in page 2-3).
https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/solutions/aws/Fortinet_Multiple_Public_IPs_for_...
b) Since the config file has the mac address of the interfaces and they are unique,remove those entries. The below excerpt example shows how the original and edited entries in the config should look like. The italicized version is the original one and the italicized,bold version is the edited one.
config system interface
edit "port1"
set vdom "root"
set ip 10.0.0.254 255.255.255.0
set allowaccess ping https ssh http fgfm
set type physical
set snmp-index 1
set macaddr 06:09:3b:01:d1:81
next
config system interface
edit "port1"
set vdom "root"
set mode dhcp
set allowaccess ping https ssh http fgfm
set type physical
set snmp-index 1
next
c) (optional) Change the password for admin login to make sure you can access the new instance.
