Symptom

Suppose you have to configure the hostname of FortiGate devices via CLI. You can follow the steps 

Description

A hostname is a label that is assigned to a device connected in network and is used to identify the device .

Process / Steps

• Login the device with the admin access.

login as:
Password :

• Go to the System >global with “config system global”

# config system global

• Set the hostname with command “set hostname <hostname> “
  

#set hostname DEVICE-1 

• Go to END
  

#end 

• The syntax are as per below 
  

config system global
       set hostname <hostname>
end