Always Geeky

If you have a pair of HA Fortigates, sometimes you need to log into the slave device via SSH. Common examples including wanting to run a packet capture.

To do so, log into the primary device as usual, then run this command:

Fortigate1 # config global

Fortigate1 (global)# execute ha manage 0

Fortigate2 $

That’s it, you are now logged onto the slave Fortigate.