Technical Note: HTTPS and SSH administrative access for FortiAP

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Description

As of version 5.4.1, SSH and HTTPS administrative access are supported and can be enabled.  This can be configured in the WTP profile or overridden per WTP.

Solution

Per WTP profile

# config wireless-controller wtp-profile
(wtp-profile) # edit “WTP_profile_name”
(FAP-KB) # set allowaccess ?     -----> to get available options

telnet    TELNET access.
http      HTTP access.
https     HTTPS access.
ssh       SSH access.

(FAP-KB) # set allowaccess telnet http https ssh
(FAP-KB) # end

Per WTP

# config wireless-controller wtp
(wtp) # edit <AP_serial_number>
(FP220B) # set override-allowaccess enable    -----> enable override of management access to managed AP.
(FP220B) # set allowaccess ?    -----> to get available options

telnet    TELNET access.
http      HTTP access.
https     HTTPS access.
ssh       SSH access.

(FP220B) # set allowaccess telnet http https ssh
(FP220B) # end