Tag Archives: HA

Connect to both Fortigates in an HA Cluster Separately

When you configure a FortiGate in HA, normally, there is no way connect to the second box unless you ssh…

By Manny Fernandez

May 6, 2020

Troubleshooting Fortigate HA

Updated 20190602 Whe you have two Fortigates and you have configured them in HA, we sometimes see issues where they…

By Manny Fernandez

June 2, 2019

Perimeter Switch Configuration with Fortiswitch (Non-Fortilink)

One of the designs I normally do for customers when they purchase Highly Available firewalls is HA perimeter switches.  When…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 2019

Fortigate FGCP vs FGSP for High Availability

Fortigate Clustering Protocol (FGCP) I have been working on Fortinet Fortigates for over two years now. Most customer that do…

By Manny Fernandez

March 6, 2019

Renaming HA Fortigate Firewall after it is in HA Cluster

If you are 'IT-OCD' like me, you hate to connect to a Fortigate and see that the devices have their…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

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…

By Manny Fernandez

January 3, 2019

Fortigate HA Back-to-Back Gotchas

Recently, I had a customer that deployed two sets of HA Fortigates at two separate locations. Additionally, the customer had…

By Manny Fernandez

October 4, 2018

Fortigate ‘HA’ configuration explained

Last month I wrote a blog post about HA on the ASA. Today, I am writting one on Fortigate HA.…

By Manny Fernandez

March 12, 2018

ASA ‘HA’ configuration explained

When configuring the Cisco ASA for High Availability, the failover command is used to configure the devices. A few terms…

By Manny Fernandez

February 27, 2018

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