Fortinet Notes

Fortigate default address

By default the fortigate LAN interface is at 192.168.1.99

Fortigate system controll

You can interact with fortigate services as unix services using fnsysctl. See examples below
  • View all processes (equivelent to ps -ax): fnsysctl ps

  • Kill all processes (equivelent to pkill) fnsysctl killall <process_name>

  • View interfacs (similar to ip a): fnsysctl ifconfig

  • View interface error: fnsysctl ifconfig <nic-name>