High Availability Installation; Priorities Of Heartbeat Device And Monitor Priorities; Configuring Fortigate Units For Ha Operation; High Availability Configuration Settings - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-200 Installation Manual

High availability installation

Priorities of heartbeat device and monitor priorities

Configuring FortiGate units for HA operation

High availability configuration settings

FortiGate-200 Installation Guide
FortiGate-200 Installation Guide Version 2.80 MR4
This chapter describes how to install two or more FortiGate units in an HA cluster. HA
installation involves three basic steps:
• Configuring FortiGate units for HA operation
• Connecting the cluster to your networks
• Installing and configuring the cluster
For information about HA, see the FortiGate Administration Guide and the FortiOS
High Availability technical note.
The procedures in this chapter do not include steps for changing the priorities of
heartbeat devices or for configuring monitor priorities settings. Both of these HA
settings should be configured after the cluster is up and running.
A FortiGate HA cluster consists of two or more FortiGate units with the same HA
configuration. This section describes how to configure each of the FortiGate units to
be added to a cluster for HA operation. The procedures are the same for active-active
and active-passive HA.
• High availability configuration settings
• Configuring FortiGate units for HA using the web-based manager
• Configuring FortiGate units for HA using the CLI
Use the following table to select the HA configuration settings for the FortiGate units in
the HA cluster.
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