{"id":876,"date":"2019-04-07T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2019-06-02T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:08:22","slug":"fortigate-migration-from-310b-to-501e-with-fori-analyser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Fortigate Migration from 310B to 501E with Forti-analyser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Long time got a chance to working with Fortigate, almost 8 years i guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Took some time to understand old 310B and with 3 days all commands are same as expected. some syntax changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old Legacy 310B with HA Active\/ Standby having issue with frequent deamon crashed and it was old version of code which was not supported by fortinet any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now time to replace with new kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"552\" height=\"182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.png 552w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Steps to follow high level :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since old config is not compatable with 6.X FortiOS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offline with VM configuration ported from 5.X and upgraded to VM as per the path to 6.X <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the backup config from VM and import the configuration to new Device 501E. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>once Primary configured and just configured Secondary Management Ip and connect to HA port so the configuration will be replicated atuomatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High level steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>run the new kit parallel to old kit. remove the old kit cables and connect to new kit ( make sure clear the ARP entries in Switch)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you expect to have small downtime like 5-10min for the new kit come online and serve the traffic as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it was easy migration never done this closest small downtime window with any other kits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Long time got a chance to working with Fortigate, almost 8 years i guess. Took some time to understand old 310B and with 3 days all commands are same as expected. some syntax changed. Old Legacy 310B with HA Active\/ Standby having issue with frequent deamon crashed and it was old version of code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}