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cngbandan
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More than one interface for fortiSIEM VA

Hello,

Please, can you say me if is it possible to have more than one interface on my FortiSIEM VA?

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Hi,

 

Yes it is possible to have multiple interfaces configured, however, eth0 must be enabled and used for the initial provisioning of the VM.

 

I would suggest you speak with Support for instructions and ensure you have a good recent backup. But these steps should work.

 

-       Add a new virtual interface in the hypervisor. The steps below are for VMware vSphere, use steps appropriate to the hypervisor version

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  • In the vSphere Client right‐click the Virtual Appliance and click Edit Settings.
  • Under Hardware select Add
  • Select Ethernet Adapter then click Next
  •  Define the Network that the Adapter will be a part of then click Next, then Finish.[/ul]

    -       Connect to the FortiSIEM virtual appliance via SSH

    -       The network interface will not appear in the CLI as the interface hasn’t been configured. Configure the interface as follows

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  • Enter the following commands to copy the existing network interface config to a second file and open it for editing[/ul]

     

    cd /etc/sysconfig/network‐scripts

    cp ifcfg‐eth0 ifcfg‐eth1

    vi ifcfg‐eth1               This will open the new config file in the vi editor

     

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  • Modify the new file with settings for the new interface as shown below[/ul]

     

    DEVICE=eth1                    Update this to ‘eth1’ as shown

    BOOTPROTO=none

    ONBOOT=yes

    TYPE=Ethernet

    IPADDR=172.16.20.210           IP address of new Interface

    NETMASK=255.255.255.0          Subnet mask of new interface

    [strike]GATEWAY=172.16.20.1[/strike]            Delete, eth0 has the default gateway

    BROADCAST=172.16.20.255        Broadcast address for the new subnet

     

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  • Save the updated file and exit by pressing the [Esc] key and entering the ‘:wq’ vi command sequence
  • Restart the network service with the following command service network restart[/ul]

     

  • cngbandan

    Many thx

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