Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-5001FA2 Installation Manual page 15

Configuring the FortiGate for the Network
FortiGate-5000 series Installation Guide
By default, you can connect to the web-based manager using the FortiGate-5000
module port 1. If you cannot connect port 1 to your network, you can use the FortiGate
CLI to add an IP address to one of the other FortiGate module ports.
Note: You may not be able to connect port 1 to your network if port 1 is an optical interface and
you do not have access to an optical network) you can change.
Connecting to the web-based manager using port 1
1 Set the IP address of the computer with an ethernet connection to the static IP
address 192.168.1.2 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
2 Connect the port 1 of the FortiGate unit to your optical network.
3 Connect the interface of the computer to the same network.
4 Start Internet Explorer and browse to the address https://192.168.1.99 (remember to
include the "s" in https://).
The FortiGate login is displayed.
5 Type admin in the Name field and select Login.
To connect to the web-based manager using interface 5
1 Connect to the FortiGate-5000 module command line interface (CLI) see,
to the command line interface (CLI)" on page
2 Set the IP address and netmask of port 1 to an IP address accessible by the computer
with an ethernet connection and configure port 1 to allow HTTPS management
connections.
config system interface
edit port1
set ip <IP_address> <netmask>
set allowaccess https
end
Example
To set the IP address of port 1 to 192.168.20.99 and netmask to 255.255.255.0, enter:
config system interface
edit port1
set ip 192.168.20.99 255.255.255.0
set allowaccess https
end
Note: The default IP address of the port 1 is 192.168.1.99 and the default IP address of the
interface 2 is 192.168.100.99. You cannot set the IP address of interface 5 to be on the same
subnets as port 1 and 2.
3 Set the IP address of the computer with an ethernet connection to a static IP address
on the same subnet as interface 5.
4 Connect port 1 to the same network as the management computer.
5 Start Internet Explorer and browse to the address https://<IP_address> (remember to
include the "s" in https://).
The FortiGate login is displayed.
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