System Management : Configuring basic system settings
 
Configuring basic system settings
The basic system settings page includes configuration options for the following settings and features:
Hostname
Web UI language
Management service ports
DNS
Virtual domain
Before you begin:
You must have Read-Write permission for System settings.
To configure basic system settings:
1. Go to System > Settings.
The configuration page displays the Basic tab.
2. Complete the configuration as described in Table 48.
3. Save the configuration.
 
Table 48: Basic settings configuration
Settings
Guidelines
Hostname
You can configure a hostname to facilitate system management. If you use SNMP, for example, the SNMP system name is derived from the configured hostname.
The hostname can be up to 35 characters in length. It can include US-ASCII letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores, but not spaces and special characters.
The System Information widget and the get system status CLI command display the full hostname. If the hostname is longer than 16 characters, the name is truncated and ends with a tilde ( ~ ) to indicate that additional characters exist, but are not displayed.
Language
Language of the web UI.
The following languages are supported:
English
Chinese Simplified
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Traditional Chinese
Portuguese
French
The application web pages use UTF-8 encoding, regardless of which language you choose. UTF-8 supports multiple languages, and allows them to display correctly, even when multiple languages are used on the same web page.
For example, your organization could have web sites in both English and simplified Chinese. Your FortiADC administrators prefer to work in the English version of the web UI. They could use the web UI in English while writing rules to match content in both English and simplified Chinese without changing this setting. Both the rules and the web UI will display correctly, as long as all rules were input using UTF-8.
Usually, your text input method or your management computer’s operating system should match the display by also using UTF-8. If they do not, your input and the web UI may not display correctly at the same time.
For example, the default encoding for simplified Chinese input might be GB2312 for your web browser or operating system. However, you usually should switch it to be UTF-8 when using the web UI, unless you are writing regular expressions that must match HTTP client requests, and those requests use GB2312 encoding.
Note: This setting does not affect the display of the CLI.
Idle Timeout
Log out an idle administrator session. The default is 30 seconds.
HTTP Port
Specify the port for the HTTP service. Usually, HTTP uses port 80.
HTTPS Port
Specify the port for the HTTPS service. Usually, HTTPS uses port 443.
Telnet Port
Specify the port for the Telnet service. Usually, Telnet uses port 25.
SSH Port
Specify the port for the SSH service. Usually, SSH uses port 22.
Primary DNS
The system must be able to contact DNS servers to resolve IP addresses and fully qualified domain names. Your Internet service provider (ISP) might supply IP addresses of DNS servers, or you might want to use the IP addresses of your own DNS servers. You must provide unicast, non-local addresses for your DNS servers. Localhost and broadcast addresses are not accepted.
Incorrect DNS settings or unreliable DNS connectivity can cause issues with other features, such as FortiGuard services and NTP system time.
Secondary DNS
IPv4/IPv6 address of the secondary DNS server for your local network.
Virtual Domain
Enables the virtual domain feature. Before you enable it, make sure you understand how the system implements virtual domains. See “Virtual Domains”.