This tutorial is to show you how to reset your Fortinet box to default factory settings. All configuration will be reset to default setting and there won’t be any policy or settings that you created.

You need to backup your configuration before you execute these commands because all configuration will be lost. There is no way to go back if you don’t have a good backup.

Reset Fortinet to factory settings

1. Login to fortigate
2. Click on Console

satzaa # execute factoryreset
This operation will reset the system to factory default!
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
System is resetting to factory default…
The system is going down NOW !!

Now you are done.