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rezafathi
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200F Management port best practise

Hi

I have all my interface vlans on my 200f port1 and I am looking for a way to config mgmt port to connect to fortigate. What should i do?

Reza F.
Reza F.
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ndumaj
Staff
Staff

Hi Rezafathi,

You can configure:

config system interface

    edit mgmt
        set dedicated-to management
end
Please review the following articles:
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiGate-dedicated-mgmt-feature-Out-of-ba...
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Use-MGMT-port-inside-the-firewall-policy/t...

-BR-

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ndumaj
Staff
Staff

Hi Rezafathi,

You can configure:

config system interface

    edit mgmt
        set dedicated-to management
end
Please review the following articles:
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiGate-dedicated-mgmt-feature-Out-of-ba...
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Use-MGMT-port-inside-the-firewall-policy/t...

-BR-

- Happy to help, hit like and accept the solution -
rezafathi

My 200f firewall has already have that feature enabled by default. Currently I can not access mgmt port without a static route (0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0 mgmt)

Reza F.
Reza F.
ndumaj
Staff
Staff

Did you access it after adding the static route?
-BR-

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rezafathi

Yes

Reza F.
Reza F.
ndumaj
Staff
Staff

Great, nice to know about that for next time.

Thanks

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