Fortigate

Command Cheet sheet

Cheet sheet created by By Frederic Kasmirczak (http://www.frederick.lu), I just simply converted it to a wiki for copy and paste easiness.

===Main Command Structure===
Command	Description
show	Display changes to the default configuration
get	List the configuration of the current object or table
edit	Create or edit a table in the current object
edit 0	will use the next ID available in a sequence number
set	Set a filed / Reset a field to the default value
end	Save the current changes
abort	Exit commands without saving the fields
delete	Remove a table from the current object

Basic
Command	Description
get sys status	Show status summary
get sys perf stat	Show Fortigate ressources summary
execute ping	Ping something
execute shutdown	Shutdown the device/reboot with reboot
get sys arp	Show the current arp table
execute date/time	Show the current date / time
delete	Remove a table from the current object

Interface
Command	Description
show sys int	Show interfaces status Sh sys int ? will show a summary
config sys interface edit port1 set ip x.x.x.x/y.y set allowaccess ssh ping end	Basic interface ip configuration
diag netlink device list	Show interfaces statistics (errors)
get hardware nic port1	Show interfaces statistics

Disk
Command	Description
diag hard deviceinfo disk	Show disks and partitions usage
diag sys flash list	Show partitions status
execute setnextreboot	Select partition for the next reboot
execute factoryreset	Reset to factory default (2 to keep network)
execute formatlogdisk	Format log disk

Run this command on the primary node to reset the uptime which should force a HA failover:

diagnose sys ha reset-uptime

This will wipe the unit and restore it to factory defaults, ensure you have a backup before continuing.

execute factoryreset