Setting Up Management Connections; Setting Up A Single Management Connection - Fortinet FortiGate-7000E Series System Manual

Getting started with FortiGate-7000

Setting up management connections

When your FortiGate-7000 first starts up, the MGMT1 to MGMT4 interfaces of both of the FIMs are part of a static
802.3 aggregate interface with a default IP address of 192.168.1.99. On the GUI or CLI the 802.3 aggregate interface is
named mgmt .
Example mgmt interface configuration

Setting up a single management connection

You can configure and manage your FortiGate-7060E by connecting an Ethernet cable to any of the MGMT1 - 4
interfaces of the FIM in slot 1 or slot 2 and logging into the GUI using HTTPS or the CLI using SSH. The default IP
address is 192.168.1.99 and you can log in with the
FortiGate-7060E 6.4.2 System Guide
For security reasons you should add a password to the admin account before connecting the
chassis to your network.
For security reasons you should add a password to the admin account before connecting the
chassis to your network.
admin administrator account with no password.
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