Adding VM devices
By default, FortiManager does not recognize VM serial numbers.
This applies to FortiGate-VM, FortiCarrier-VM, FortiProxy-VM, and FortiFirewall-VM.
This measure increases security of the FortiManager system by ensuring that VM devices can only be added to FortiManager when recognition of VM serial numbers has been enabled by an administrator.
If you attempt to add a VM device (for example FortiGate-VM) to FortiManager while the fgfm-allow-vm command is disabled, an error will appear indicating that VM devices are not allowed or that the device is an unsupported model.
When upgrading from an earlier version of FortiManager that does not enforce this behavior, VM devices already managed by FortiManager will continue to be supported without interruption, but you must enable the fgfm-allow-vm command before you can add any additional VM devices.
To add a FortiGate-VM to FortiManager:
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In the FortiManager CLI, enable recognition of FortiGate-VM serial numbers:
config sys global
set fgfm-allow-vm enable
end
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Proceed with adding the FortiGate-VM device through one of the supported methods. See Add devices.