HA in-band management for management interfaces

The FortiGate 7000F now supports FGCP HA in-band management for FortiGate 7000F management interfaces (mgmt1 and mgmt2).

HA in-band management allows you to add a second management IP address to one or more FortiGate 7000F management interfaces. The management IP address is accessible from the network that the interface is connected to. This setting is not synchronized, so each FortiGate 7000F in the cluster can have their own in-band management IP addresses; providing management access to the secondary FortiGate 7000F.

FortiGate 7000F does not support HA in-band management for data interfaces.

HA in-band management configuration.

config vdom

edit mgmt-vdom

config system interface

edit {1-mgmt1 | 1-mgmt2 | 2-mgmt1 | 2-mgmt2}

set management-ip <ip address>

end

The management-ip option is available only when HA is enabled.

To support HA in-band management, the FortiGate 7000F handles HA virtual MAC addresses in the same way as other FortiGates.