HOW TO RESET FORTINET APPLIANCE WITOUT ADMIN PASSWORD (POST 2)

**You have two minutes (2 minutes) after you plug it in to the power…….**

• 1.      Start Putty
• 2.      Connect the cisco cable (rj45 to DB9)
• 3.      Open word, then type in the Serial Number: (example) FG300B3908605531
• 4.      Then make sure you add bcpb to the beginning of the

Serial Number: (example) bcpbFG300B3908605531

• 5.      Copy the Serial Number with the bcpb, make when you copy it no blank spaces are copied:
• §  bcpbFG300B9998605531 Bad
• §  bcpbFG300B9998605531 Good
• 6.      When the login appears type in:
• §   :maintainer
• 7.      Now the password:
• §  Password:bcpbFG300B9998605531
• §  Just right click the mouse to paste in the ‘password,’ and hit return.
• 8.      Now follow instructions below…
• §  : execute factoryreset
• §  : y

Allow it to run its course….

If it was a success? The Reboot should look like this….

Example: FG300B9998605531 login:

• 9.      Type admin to test:
• §  : admin
• 10.  No password is the factory set:
• §  : “press enter”
• 11.   Now you should be in executive level
• §  #
• 12.  Success! Now exit and shutdown
• §  #exit

Done

Add:

The password is bcpb + the serial number of the firewall (letters of 

the serial number are in UPPERCASE format)