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Mandalorian
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FortiPortal - Public key authentication

In the GCP environment I set up the VM where I installed the ova file downloaded directly from the Support Fortinet site (see below for example)

 

 

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After installation I tried logging in with the default credentials both in SSH and from the GUI but I get this error when logging in 

 

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Thank everyone in advance!

#FortiPortal #GCP

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Mandalorian
New Contributor III

Issue resolved the systems managing the VMs on GCP did not have the serial console port enabled (see below)

 

Notice: The first time you launch the portal, you will only have access via the console

 

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Mandalorian

After discussing the matter with the administrators managing GCP, we had a public/private RSA key pair generated.

Follow the steps below to associate the public key on the vm instance and NOT on the project on GCP

 

VM INSTANCE DETAIL -> EDIT -> YOU HAVE ONE SSH KEY

Copy the key inside the space, at the end of the key insert admin (see image below) , click on save.

After these operations you should see the following on the vm dashboard see image below

GCP vm detailsGCP vm details

 

After this go to Putty and import the private key and test the SSH connection to FortiPortal

 

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Mandalorian
New Contributor III

Issue resolved the systems managing the VMs on GCP did not have the serial console port enabled (see below)

 

Notice: The first time you launch the portal, you will only have access via the console

 

image.png

Mandalorian

After discussing the matter with the administrators managing GCP, we had a public/private RSA key pair generated.

Follow the steps below to associate the public key on the vm instance and NOT on the project on GCP

 

VM INSTANCE DETAIL -> EDIT -> YOU HAVE ONE SSH KEY

Copy the key inside the space, at the end of the key insert admin (see image below) , click on save.

After these operations you should see the following on the vm dashboard see image below

GCP vm detailsGCP vm details

 

After this go to Putty and import the private key and test the SSH connection to FortiPortal

 

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