When you set up FortiADC for the first time, you must use a serial connection in order to configure the appliance's network with the eqcli interface. Connect the serial port on the to the serial port on a terminal, or any system (such as a Windows or Unix PC) running terminal emulation software.
Configure your terminal or terminal emulator software to use the following settings:
On Windows systems, you can use the Windows built-in terminal emulator, HyperTerminal, or the Tera Term Pro terminal emulator to log in over the serial port. On Unix systems, you can use the cu(1) command or any other Unix serial communication program.
If you use HyperTerminal, in addition to the settings shown above, select File > Properties > Settings from HyperTerminal’s menu, select VT100 in the Emulation drop-down box, and then Terminal Setup to enable these options:
Tera Term is freely available at:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html