Add HA A/P FortiGate to FortiManager

[osaleem2_10]

Hi,

I do have HA Active Passive FortiGate - Active and Running. Recently, I added a new FortiManager. Kindly guide how I can add FortiGate as an HA to FortiManager.

There is an option on FortiManager to add an HA Cluster. But that means that this is for a new deployment, and now I'm in production.

I followed the normal way to add a node from FortiManager - Add Primary IP - Then I noted that the Secondary became out of sync.

Kindly guide me to the correct way.

[AEK]

Hi Saleem

Check this tech tip.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiManager/Technical-Tip-How-to-Manage-FortiGate-HA-Clusters-via...

If I remember well when I do such integration I never use an HA dedicated management interface to connect to FMG, I always use an interface/IP which fails-over on cluster fail-over, (i.e. shared interface/IP), and this way you don't to add both nodes, you add only once. Also I think I've read such recommendation somewhere but I don't remember where. Anyway this always worked fine for me.