FortiGate AWS Deployment Guide

Step 7 – Testing

Step 7.1 – Launch a RDP session to test

 

Figure 31

Step 7.2 – Retrieve your VM’s password

On the EC2 Dashboard, Right click your test VM instance and select Get Windows Password

 

Figure 32

    You will be asked for the key pair you created to decypt the administrotr password.

 

Figure 33

 

Step 7.3 – Test Outbound access

For testing purposes I have attempted to download a file from eicar.org to show that the FortiGate is inline for outbound traffic. See Figures 34-35.

 

Figure 34

 

Figure 35

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