Fortigate HA in 5 Minutes

Here is a quick 5 min HA configuration for the Fortigate.

On the Master Fortigate

config system ha
set group-name "HAGroup"
set mode a-p
set password Fortinet
set hbdev "ha" 50 "port14" 0 
set session-pickup enable
set override disable
set priority 180
end

On the Slave Fortigate

config system ha
set group-name "HAGroup"
set mode a-p
set password Fortinet
set hbdev "ha" 50 "port14" 0 
set session-pickup enable
set override disable
set priority 125
end

On both these configuration, we are using the dedicated HA port and port 14 as HA sync ports. You will need to replace this with the interfaces you are using.  This config is Active/Passive. Priority is set to 180 and 125 respectively. The one with the higher priority is usually always the Master.