Environment variables

The CLI supports the following environment variables. Variable names are case-sensitive.

Table 84: Environment variables
$USERFROM	The management access type (ssh, telnet, jsconsole for the CLI Console widget in the web-based manager, and so on) and the IP address of the administrator that configured the item.
$USERNAME	The account name of the administrator that configured the item.
$SerialNum	The serial number of the FortiGate unit.

For example, the FortiGate unit’s host name can be set to its serial number.

config system global

set hostname $SerialNum

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