Getting Started With Fortigate-7000; Multi Vdom Mode - Fortinet FortiGate-7030E System Manual

Getting started with FortiGate-7000

Begin by installing your FortiGate-7000 chassis in a rack and installing FIM interface modules and FPM processing
modules in it. Then you can power on the chassis and all modules in the chassis will power up.
Whenever a chassis is first powered on, it takes about 5 minutes for all modules to start up and become completely
initialized and synchronized. During this time the chassis will not allow traffic to pass through and you may not be able to
log into the GUI, or if you manage to log in, the session could time out as the FortiGate-7000 continues negotiating.
Review the PSU, fan tray, System Management Module (SMM), FIM, and FPM LEDs to verify that everything is
operating normally. Wait until the chassis has completely started up and synchronized before making configuration
changes.
When the system has initialized, you have a few options for connecting to the FortiGate-7000 GUI or CLI:
Log in to the GUI by connecting the MGMT1 interface of the FIM in slot 1 to your network. Then browse to
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https://192.168.1.99.
Log in to the CLI by connecting the MGMT1 interface of the FIM in slot 1 to your network. Then use an SSH client
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to connect to 192.168.1.99 and use the same admin account to log in.
Log in to the primary FIM CLI by connecting to the RJ-45 RS-232 Console 1 serial port on the FortiGate-7000 SMM
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with settings: BPS: 9600, data bits: 8, parity: none, stop bits: 1, flow control: none.
The FortiGate-7000 ships with the following factory default configuration.
Option
Administrator Account User
Name
Password
MGMT1 IP/Netmask
All configuration changes must be made from the primary FIM GUI or CLI and not from the secondary FIM or the FPMs.
All other management communication (for example, SNMP queries, remote logging, and so on) use the management
aggregate interface and are handled by the primary FIM.

Multi VDOM mode

By default, when you first start up a FortiGate-7000F it is operating in Multi VDOM mode. The default Multi VDOM
configuration includes the
(mgmt) and the HA heartbeat interfaces (M1 and M2) are in mgmt-vdom and all of the data interfaces are in the root
VDOM.
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Default Configuration
admin
(none) For security reasons you should add a password to the admin
account before connecting the FortiGate-7000 to your network.
192.168.1.99/24 (the MGMT1 interface is part of the mgmt redundant
interface that also includes MGMT2, MGMT3, and MGMT4).
root VDOM and a management VDOM named mgmt-vdom . The management interface
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