Connecting a FortiSwitch to my FortiGate Using FortiLink

hello everyone this is ali and welcome to my channel in this video i'm going to connect for the first time a 40 net 40 switch to my uh fortinet firewall at home so right now i have the 40 net switch connected to my laptop via a console cable i'm going to open a session here and this is com4 and i'm happy i looked this up on the internet it's not 9600 the speed i'm going to put 115 and 200 or else if you open it on the other one it'll be just some scribbles i'm gonna just change the font to a bigger size and i like to put a brighter color so this is the switch right here and this one is my fortigate at home okay this is the switch so the password is admin that means username admin no password and i am and i'm gonna type in the question mark and it is very similar to the cli of the firewall config and get and show diagnose i can get system status no not startup so yeah it is similar to the information you get when you uh type this in on a firewall get system status see the version 40 switch 124e fpoe it is on uh six two one i'm not sure if that's the latest one i don't think so um my forty gate is and is on six four two right now so we should have a a newer firmware for the switch so serial number host name the default uh system time somewhere in back in 1969 okay so we have similar cli to the 40 gate so get question mark i see cut hardware log router switch this is specific to the switch system test and user okay let's test some of these commands i also found these i also found this command where i found where i have to change the baud rate for the session so get system console it is 115 200. so i'm glad i found that before i connected and let's try get system uh let's say admin admin list and i can see username admin console started 1969 december 31st but we are december 3rd 2020. let's try another command get system um that's right interface system interface physical oh i can see this interface here internal it's like um i think like the vlan one on a cisco switch all the ports are on the internal i guess interface let's see get router info routing table details okay so i have this network here connected i think it's the same as a fortigate if i want to connect via a web interface i have to connect to the 192.168.1.99 i have to connect the cable to any of the ports and yeah let's try that hardware okay got hardware cpu memory and status that will probably give us some statistics or stats about cpu and memory usage on the status will give us a model name what cpu how much ram are this not available okay poe firmer version okay that's cool get switch let's try get switch okay get switch vlan we don't have any vlan interface is set up let's try get switch trunk also no trunks uh that's very good switch poe command fail poe inline what is this command doing okay it's looking at each interface status enabled i'm gonna make this bigger power consumption for each interface 18 19. okay i'll just wait for the command to run up to 24. so 26 27 28 and 29 are those are the ones that need an sfp so i don't think we can enable um poe on those ports so just from port 1 to port 24. here with this command you can see some power consumption on each port if i connect an access point i'll see how much power it's drawing it's maximum power state probably searching because there's nothing connected right now and priority okay so maybe you can put higher priority for some devices some some poe devices uh let's let's look at other ones mirror get switch mirror status we can mirror some ports we have nothing right now of course uh get switch let's look at the interface interface okay you can see all interfaces here for twin port security sticky mac disable on all of them okay and then we can see the internal interface uh let's try show show switch interface okay now we can see the configurations of each port so edit port one there's no configurations under every port oh from port 21 and on we have set auto discovery 40 link enable and that's what i need to connect this switch to the firewall so i can manage it through the firewall and i have from so i'll connect port 24 to the firewall from 25 and on to 28 these will need a an sfp so i'll just connect 24. well let's look at other things get switch modules let's switch modules summary okay this is where i look at the sfvs if i connected anything empty they're all empty right now and let's see the details this will probably give me more details for everyone but i have nothing now show system interface um oh i have internal let's look at the configurations of this internal interface so setup set mode dhcp uh secondary ap so this is the ip we connect to if we wanna manage the switch via the command line so enough of the cli of this switch i want to connect it to my firewall this is the firewall right here so basically the firewall these seven ports are um internal switch ports or they are configured under this type hardware switch but i took out port number seven or internal seven and i put it under this 40 link this was already here i didn't need to do anything except put the internal seven uh the port 7 and the interface members and the addressing mode here has to be at this one dedicated to 40 switch so i'm going to keep everything on default and i'm going to connect my fortigate port 7 to port 24 of the switch and we'll see what happens i just connected that and according to that sticker on the switch i go to wi-fi and switch controller managed 40 switch okay i see here a switch serial number and says unauthorized i can right click and say authorize and now it is probably authorizing my switch so it connects it to okay i'm not sure if it take i took it or not oh it is rebooting right now okay my switch is rebooting so i took the command 40 link interface this is the same as under the network uh for to switch vlans here where i can set up some vlans probably for my okay voice villain video vlan quarantine with vlan ids 40 switch ports i don't know if i can see anything now oh i can see them actually i can see all these um ports of the switch while it is still rebooting right now but of course i don't know if i can do anything with them i can't edit create new i can create a trunk okay i'll cancel that for now and so my plan is to connect 40 access points to this switch so i can um i can manage them through the firewall i have already a wi-fi vlan so i'll just connect the 40 switches or the 40 access point to this 40 switch on that wi-fi vlan and i will be able to see a physical a nice physical topology here that's why i wanted to connect this switch to the 40 gate okay it's coming back up now the fans are getting louder it's still offline so right now i have all my devices here on different vlans connected directly to the for the gate or not directly actually i have an hp switch here in the middle but all my vlans are on the 40 gate now i have a forge switch coming up soon disconnected and connected so i will wait i don't know how fast it takes maybe a few minutes a couple of minutes i'm going to see the logical topology it's not going to change much because i didn't add any interfaces but i'm just going to see if it shows anything okay so right now i only have my vlan interfaces and the devices connected to them i have nothing that shows the switch so i'll just wait for the physical topology this will be coming up soon i'm just going to go to managed 40 switch here and see okay it is online let's see the 40 link here i can see the port turned to green 40 link here is green 40 switch ports okay nothing connected but i'll go back to managed 40 switch you can see some options here connect the cli upgrade delete i'm gonna connect the cli okay that looks nice exact ssh from admin at this interface permanently added okay get system status ah this is basically the same switch nice and it took the current time from the 40 gate okay so i think it is online this is the switch i'm going to try to upgrade it um i'll see if i can download the latest firmware version and update i'm gonna look at the physical topology one more time okay it's still red maybe not until i i connect my access points and i have some i have the wi-fi set up i have some devices here that will show a nicer topology but that is it for this video thank you for watching and i will see you on the next one

Channel: Ali Younes - Go4IT

Views: 4,316

Keywords: #Fortinet, #Fortigate, #FortiSwitch, #FortiLink

Id: ye5diWL97VQ

Length: 15min 38sec (938 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2020