create multiple fortigate lab in eve-ng

[knam273]

Hi, I am new in both eve-ng and fortigate. sorry for my naive question.

I create my first lab with fortigate firewall using trial license, everything work fine. 

then in my second fortigate lab, serial of fortigate node change and trial license is invalid and I cannot register it gain using my account. 

Is there a way to sustain the fortigate image with its serial number in different eve-ng lab ?  

[johnathan]

Unfortunately, you can only have one FortiGate Evaluation VM per FortiCloud account, see: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate-private-cloud/7.6.0/xen-administration-guide/504166/for...
You can try to use multiple FortiCloud accounts potentially.

[knam273]

many thank for your answer.

Suppose I have several lab topology, each lab need one Fortigate VM and I only run 1 lab at a time. is this possible for me to reuse the Fortigate Evaluation VM (connect with my account) in each lab ? 

As a learner, I would like to keep all these topology for making reference, also destroying and creating new topology in every lesson just to keep Fortigate Evaluation VM is time consuming.

[johnathan]

Yup. You can move the license around to whichever FortiGate you want to use at that moment. It will change the S/N like you saw previously, but should work fine.

[knam273]

How can i move license between each vm in each lab ? Sorry i am new on this topic 

[johnathan]

Whenever it kicks you out of the GUI for not having a license, you should be able to sign in. Whichever FGT you signed in on last, should be licensed and work fine  

[knam273]

hi, on my second lab, when I sign in to Fortigate VM, I get the error as photo below.

I think the license is corresponding with the serial number of fortigate VM and each VM in each lab have different serial so how can I move the license around as you said ? 

[johnathan]

Looks like this may be a different issue. I would try what people have suggested here: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Support-Forum/Error-downloading-license-Invalid-serial-number/td-p...

[knam273 · Accepted solution]

I found the solution, I need to "decommision this unit" on FortiClound before registering new VM in new eve-ng lab