Hi,
We just set up IPSEC VPN for our new office. Everything works fine when I connect. I can ping my servers, RDP, access the fileserver. etc. One thing I CANNOT do is access the Fortigate admin interface from my browser. It times out. I can RDP into one of our servers and access it, but not from my laptop. I noticed in the log that it’s being denied on Web Management(HTTPS).
I have HTTPS enabled on the admin settings, so not sure what’s going on. Any ideas?
Check your Trusted Hosts.
You will need to allow the traffic from your IPSEC interface to reach your management interface.
Is the admin interface in the same network as the servers? And how does the ipv4 policy from IPsec tunnel to the admin interface look like?
You can also setup trusted networks in the user, so perhaps the IPsec network is not in there.
Do you have https management enabled on the ipsec interface? If you go to the public interface and hit the + next to it your ipsec tunnel will be below that and would need to have https enabled on that.
It’s trusted host, use it and use it well
This is probably the root cause