Technical Tip: Login to FortiCloud managed FortiGates as an IAM user

[dbhavsar]

Description

This article describes how it is possible to login to FortiGate using IAM user.

Scope

v6 and later.

Solution

- Make sure to enable the ‘Allow login using FortiGate Cloud SSO’ option:

- Once it is enabled go to the FortiGate Cloud Account and,

- Create a new permission profile and select Asset Management [optional] and FortiOS SSO [Mandatory] as shown below:

- Create an IAM user as shown below and apply that permission profile to this user. For this example, the test user is used.

- It is also possible to explore more on what is IAM user using this link:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticloud/23.2.0/identity-access-management-iam/5478/adding-iam-...

Related link:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticloud/latest/identity-access-management-iam/708607/faq

- It will be possible to log in using that account. Once it is successful, this message will appear: