Initial settings

After you deploy a FortiGate-VM on the KVM server, perform the following tasks:

• Connect the FortiGate-VM to the network so that it can process network traffic and maintain license validity.
• Connect to the FortiGate-VM GUI via a web browser for easier administration.
• Ensure that you upload the full license file to the FortiGate-VM.
• If you are in a closed environment, enable validation of the FortiGate-VM license against a FortiManager on your network.

Network configuration

The first time that you start the FortiGate-VM, you can only access the FortiGate-VM through the console window of your KVM server environment. After you configure one FortiGate network interface with an IP address and administrative access, you can access the FortiGate-VM GUI.