Connect to the CLI

You can connect to the CLI in one of the following ways:

• a direct serial connection,

• an SSH connection, or

• FortiExtender and FortiCloud GUIs.

You can access the FortiExtender CLI outside of the GUI in either of the following ways:

• Console connection — connect your computer directly to the console port of your FortiExtender

• SSH access — connect your computer through any network interface attached to one of the network ports of your FortiExtender

To access the FortiExtender CLI via FortiCloud GUI, go to the device page of a deployed FortiExtender device and click the “>_Console” section to open a new instance of the FortiExtender console.

To access the FortiExtender CLI via the FortiExtender GUI, click the “>_” tab on the left side of the GUI.

You can open only one console per GUI access.