How To add Fortinet firewall in eveng

Fortinet is a widely used firewall in medium and large enterprises and Eve-ng has extended its limit to simulate almost every firewall. Eve-ng is one of the best simulators which is available free of cost.
Fortinet firewall is one of the best firewalls due to its rich features, In Eve-ng you can create a lab and practice and test almost every feature of Fortinet firewall. Adding a Fortinet firewall device in EveNg platform requires several steps, including obtaining the Fortinet image, uploading it to EVE-NG, and configuring the device. Here’s a complete guide on how to do this:

Step-by-step process of Fortinet firewall installation in eve-ng.

1. You can check how to install Eve-ng in windows
2. Download Fortinet Firewall Images.
3. Creating a folder in Eve-ng
4. Uploading Cisco Fortinet firewall images to Eve-ng.
5. Unzip Fortinet Image
6. Rename the Fortinate image and remove old image
7. Testing Fortinet firewall Images.
8. How to add Fortinet Manager in Eve-ng.

Below Fortinet firewall IMAGES are used for this post.

Other versions should also be supported following the procedure.

1. Download Fortinet Images Eveng

Images provided below are strictly for educational purposes and are not hosted on the networkhunt.com server. We are just indexing the links found on the internet for educational purposes only.

if you have the privileges, You can download the images directly from the Fortinet website.
Download Fortinet Images from Fotinet Website

or You can download Fortinet images from direct links.

Direct link to  Download Fortinet Images.

2. Creating a Fortinet Folder to upload Fortinet firewall images to Eveng.

As Per the image naming table, we have to create an image folder starting with Fortinet-, once created we will upload the image to that folder.

mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/fortinet-FGT-v5-build1484/

3. Upload the downloaded Fortinet firewall image to the EVEng.

Upload the image to the folder Fortinet which we created in the previous step. You can use  FileZilla or WinSCP to upload the image.

File Path-

/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/fortinet-FGT-v5-build1484/

4. From the EVE cli, go to the newly created image folder.

cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/fortinet-FGT-v5-build1484/

5. Unzip original filename

unzip FGT_VM64_KVM-v5-build1484-FORTINET.out.kvm.zip

6. We need to Rename original filename to virtioa.qcow2 and remove original zip file.

mv fortios.qcow2 virtioa.qcow2
rm FGT_VM64_KVM-v5-build1449-FORTINET.out.kvm.zip

7. In Last Fix the permissions:

/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions

Now Go to Eve-ng GUI add node and test the fortinet

default username/password for Fortinet firewall-

username-admin
password – No password just press enter

Enjoy 🙂