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Connecting to individual FPC CLIs of the secondary FortiGate-6000 in an HA configuration

Connecting to individual FPC CLIs of the secondary FortiGate-6000 in an HA configuration

From the management board of the primary FortiGate-6000, you can use the following command to log in to the management board of the secondary FortiGate-6000:

execute ha manage <id>

Where <id> is the ID of the other FortiGate-6000 in the cluster. From the primary FortiGate-6000, use an ID of 0 to log into the secondary FortiGate-6000. From the secondary FortiGate-6000, use an ID of 1 to log into the primary FortiGate-6000. You can enter the ? to see the list of IDs that you can connect to.

After you have logged in, you can manage the secondary FortiGate-6000 from the management board or you can use the execute-load-balance slot manage command to connect to the CLIs of different FPCs in the secondary FortiGate-6000.

Connecting to individual FPC CLIs of the secondary FortiGate-6000 in an HA configuration

From the management board of the primary FortiGate-6000, you can use the following command to log in to the management board of the secondary FortiGate-6000:

execute ha manage <id>

Where <id> is the ID of the other FortiGate-6000 in the cluster. From the primary FortiGate-6000, use an ID of 0 to log into the secondary FortiGate-6000. From the secondary FortiGate-6000, use an ID of 1 to log into the primary FortiGate-6000. You can enter the ? to see the list of IDs that you can connect to.

After you have logged in, you can manage the secondary FortiGate-6000 from the management board or you can use the execute-load-balance slot manage command to connect to the CLIs of different FPCs in the secondary FortiGate-6000.