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Caveats

Configurations that may block device-accessing can be removed by FortiConverter, you might need to configure these settings manually after the configuration restoration. The settings you should check on are:

  • The administrator password
  • The IP of interface "mgmt"
  • The "accprofile" setting of administrators
  • The "trusthost" setting of administrators

For FortiGate conversion, the default admin account settings may be overwritten after the configuration restoration. For example, if the old FortiGate set the default admin access to disabled, you should temporarily enable this admin access before the restoration.

config system global

set admin-maintainer enable

end

The conversion output consists of two main parts:

  1. The first part is the default configuration of the target device.
  2. The second part starts with the commented out line "#migrated config starts", and follows with the migrated source configuration.

If you want to modify the output config manually, we suggest you modify only the second part because the definition from the first part will be overwritten by the following definition.

Importing output configuration into FortiGate

Please follow the steps in this video:

https://youtu.be/UBjSE-Kb9EM?t=2220

Caveats

Configurations that may block device-accessing can be removed by FortiConverter, you might need to configure these settings manually after the configuration restoration. The settings you should check on are:

  • The administrator password
  • The IP of interface "mgmt"
  • The "accprofile" setting of administrators
  • The "trusthost" setting of administrators

For FortiGate conversion, the default admin account settings may be overwritten after the configuration restoration. For example, if the old FortiGate set the default admin access to disabled, you should temporarily enable this admin access before the restoration.

config system global

set admin-maintainer enable

end

The conversion output consists of two main parts:

  1. The first part is the default configuration of the target device.
  2. The second part starts with the commented out line "#migrated config starts", and follows with the migrated source configuration.

If you want to modify the output config manually, we suggest you modify only the second part because the definition from the first part will be overwritten by the following definition.

Importing output configuration into FortiGate

Please follow the steps in this video:

https://youtu.be/UBjSE-Kb9EM?t=2220