MGMT interface for HA Hartbeat

[NotMine]

Hello,

Is it advisable to use MGMT port as one of the heartbeat interfaces for HA (on FGT-200F, for example)? I remember reading somewhere Fortinet recommending NOT to use MGMT interface for general traffic, but what about HA?

Cheers,

Slavko

[sthampi_FTNT · Accepted solution]

Hello NotMine,

Usually mgmt interface is used for dedicated Out of Band Management of the device.

However, if you like to use it as a backup heartbeat interface for HA, there is no harm in doing that. 

you may go ahead and configure it and it will work just fine. 

[NotMine]

Thank you, @sthampi_FTNT!

Cheers,

Slavko

[jubli24]

kinda sounds like you may have a hardware problem. You can try using the management interface as a test, also check the interface in the cli and the cli configuration.