Technical Tip: FortiGate HA failover via FortiManager

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Description

This article describes how to perform FortiGate HA failover via the FortiManager 'promote' option.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

To select the 'promote' option from  GUI:

1. Go to Device Manager, and select the 'HA device' on the left panel, which will open System: Dashboard.
   
   

2. To make the secondary becomes the primary, select 'Promote', then select 'OK' to confirm failover.
   

3. It will take a while to change the 'HA device' sequence.
4. Once completed, the HA role will be changed.

5. To confirm this on the production HA FortiGate, go to System -> HA.

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