Curious if this was a design oversight or they are degrading/discontinuing the fortiexplorer. Disappointing, as it made configs/migrations very easy..
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Give them some feedback. The original 60D shipped without an RJ45 console port. Later versions had a consoled added to the front.
Do may people use FortiExplorer? It's good for quick setups from an iPad but I'm usually sat at my PC when I set them up via a spare NIC. Not much help when diagnosing hardware faults.
What's your experience of it?
I was also disappointed that the 60E that we purchased for a branch office didn't have the usb port.
I have pretty much stuck to using a USB to serial converter in order to use the built in console ports. FortiExplorer COM access has been spotty for me since the beginning and I got tired of messing with it.
Mike Pruett
Really stupid to not include support for USB MGMT on the 30E/50E/60E models. I really don´t know what Fortinet was thinking here...
Paul Dean wrote:I used it almost exclusively. it too handy of a tool not to use, just plug in and go from my laptop. No fiddling with ethernet or IP ranges. toggling http/https access on or off through the command line, etc. I've never used it from an iPad so I cannot speak to the ease of use, but I am already missing it. I will be trying one of these.Give them some feedback. The original 60D shipped without an RJ45 console port. Later versions had a consoled added to the front.
Do may people use FortiExplorer? It's good for quick setups from an iPad but I'm usually sat at my PC when I set them up via a spare NIC. Not much help when diagnosing hardware faults.
What's your experience of it?
> I have pretty much stuck to using a USB to serial converter in order to use the built in console ports.
I use Air Console and Airconsole TS.
Does FortiExplorer work when using a Serial to USB converter? Or, can anyone confirm that USB A to USB A will work with FortiExplorer?
Fortinet, the USB to Micro USB was plug and play with FortiExplorer. You provided a cable in the box. Now, you provide RJ45 to Serial and I have to provide Serial to USB. -1 on that change...
I tried an USB A-to-A cable - did not work
Hi, neither console nor usb port on FGT60E can be used for connecting via FortiExplorer.
FGT: 50E,100D, 200D, 600D
FMG: VM64
FAZ: VM64
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