Description | This article describes how to troubleshoot the VDOM link that is lost after upgrading to v7.2.9 or 7.2.10 from or through the v7.0.14. |
Scope | FortiGate v7.0. |
Solution |
This issue is reported when the device is in multi-vdom mode and VDOM links are in use to transfer traffic between different VDOMs and an upgrade is performed from the version 7.0.14 to the version 7.2.9 or 7.2.10.
In this example device is in version 7.0.14, multi-vdom is enabled and two VDOM links are in use between two VDOMs named 'Root' and 'LAN'.
Before the upgrade, the example device output is shown below :
FortiGate (global) # get sys status
FortiGate (global) # config system global
FortiGate (global) # config system interface edit "npu0_vlink0" <--- npu0_vlink0 is in Root VDOM. edit "npu0_vlink1" <--- npu0_vlink1 is in LAN VDOM.
The issue starts after upgrading to version 7.2.9 and higher (not reported below v7.2.9, If the device is upgraded to v7.2.7 or v7.2.8, it will not be triggered).
After the upgrade, the example output is shown as below:
FortiGate (global) # diagnose debug config-error-log read VDOMs are not lost. They are still visible in the configuration file.
config vdom
However, VDOM link configurations are lost.
FortiGate (global) # config system interface edit "npu0_vlink0" <--- npu0_vlink0 is in Root VDOM.
The workaround to fix this problem is described below.
Technical Tip: How to download FortiGate configuration file & Debug log from GUI
From the v7.0 backup configuration file :
edit "npu0_vlink0" edit "npu0_vlink1" set snmp-index 27
It is recommended to check the upgrade path from the link below before applying any upgrade on the device.
In newer versions, the default (and only valid) interface type for a npu_vlink interface became physical. |
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