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vishal1
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Fortigate query

Hello All,

 

Need help on below points.

 

1. Im planning to remove/disable central management from fortigate using below steps. 

go to security fabrics--click fabric connector--edit central mgmt--click disable and save

 

does removing fortigate from fortimanager flush the configuration on fortigate ?.

 

2. Does configuring snmp services for out of band with reserved management interfaces [HA] allow user to take administrative access of fortigate through snmp server or its just for monitoring. I'm following below link for configuration

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.1/administration-guide/313152/out-of-band-managemen...

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AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser

Hello Vishal

  1. Removing FGT from FMG management will not change anything to your FGT config
  2. FGT's SNMP is read-only and can't be used for any write queries. SNMP traps are used to send alerts from FGT, and SNMP queries are used only to read values from FGT.
AEK
AEK
vishal1
New Contributor III

Hi AEK,

 

Thank you for your response. Basically im planning to configure snmp services using dedicated ha management interfaces using below configuration.

 

  1. Allow SNMP on port8 on both primary and secondary units:

    config system interface
        edit port8
            append allowaccess snmp
        next
    end

    Add an SNMP community with a host for the reserved management interface of each cluster member. The host includes the IP address of the SNMP server.

    config system snmp community
        edit 1
            set name "Community"
            config hosts
                edit 1
                    set ip 10.11.101.20 255.255.255.255
                    set ha-direct enable
                next
            end
        next
    end
    1. Add an SNMP user for the reserved management interface:

      config system snmp user
          edit "1"
              set notify-hosts 10.11.101.20
              set ha-direct enable
          next
      end

       

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