Getting started
Connecting to the FortiGate-4000 10/100 out of band management module
FortiGate-4000 Installation Guide
To connect to the web-based manager
1
Connect the internal interface module to your network.
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For the FortiGate-4000P, each FortiGate-4000 unit is connected to a different
connector on the internal interface pass-through interface module. See
page 20
for the location of the internal interface pass-through module. See
Figure 12 on page 24
interface connector and each FortiGate-4000 unit.
•
For the location of the FortiGate-4000 unit internal interface connections for the
FortiGate-4000S, see
2
Power on the FortiGate-4000 unit that you want to connect to.
Note: When first installed, all FortiGate-4000 units installed in the FortiGate-4000 chassis have
the same internal, external, and out of band management IP addresses. To connect to a
specific FortiGate-4000 unit, you must turn on the power for this FortiGate-4000 unit. The power
to all of the other FortiGate-4000 units must be turned off.
3
Set the IP address of the management computer with an ethernet connection to the
static IP address 192.168.1.2 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
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.
Figure 16: FortiGate login
5
Type admin in the Name field and select Login.
To connect to the web-based manager of a FortiGate-4000 unit using the
FortiGate-4000 10/100 out of band management module, you must connect the out of
band management module to the same network as your management computer.
For more information about the 10/100 out of band management module, see
out of band management module" on page 23
connections" on page
for the correspondence between each pass-through
Figure 7 on page
29.
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Connecting to the web-based manager
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