Basic Provisioning of Fortigate FW
these steps are for resetting the admin password then updating a Fortigate firewall for basic connectivity. first reboot the device. once it has rebooted login with the following.
user: maintainer
pass: bcpb<SN>
config system admin
edit admin
set password
log out by exiting then log back in with the admin account. You can now set the inside interface that will allow you to reach the GUI.
edit "inside"
set vdom "root"
set ip 172.16.10.4 255.255.255.0
set allowaccess ping https ssh http fgfm fabric
set alias "inside"
set stp enable
set role lan
set interface "internal"
set vlanid 172
config ipv6
set ip6-address fdd9:e6d4:147d:172::4/64
set ip6-allowaccess ping https ssh http fgfm
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