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

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

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

execute ha manage <id>

Where <id> is the ID of the other FortiGate 6000F in the cluster. From the primary FortiGate 6000F, use an ID of 0 to log into the secondary FortiGate 6000F. From the secondary FortiGate 6000F, use an ID of 1 to log into the primary FortiGate 6000F. 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 6000F 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 6000F.

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

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

execute ha manage <id>

Where <id> is the ID of the other FortiGate 6000F in the cluster. From the primary FortiGate 6000F, use an ID of 0 to log into the secondary FortiGate 6000F. From the secondary FortiGate 6000F, use an ID of 1 to log into the primary FortiGate 6000F. 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 6000F 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 6000F.