Technical Tip: How to decrease the lines per page shown in the GUI
Description
In some situations, it is useful to decrease the number of lines per page shown in the GUI, to reduce delays in loading logs from disk or FortiCloud or reduce delays in loading objects like addresses or services.
This article describes how to decrease the lines per page shown in the GUI.
Solution
In some situations, it is useful to decrease the number of lines per page shown in the GUI, to reduce delays in loading logs from disk or FortiCloud or reduce delays in loading objects like addresses or services.
This article describes how to decrease the lines per page shown in the GUI.
Solution
In FortiOS, the lines per page of GUI can be defined as follows:
System -> Admin -> Settings or System -> Settings and in the View Settings, change the 'Lines Per Page' to 20 (default is 50).
Alternatively, from CLI these commands accomplish the same:
with vdom mode:
System -> Admin -> Settings or System -> Settings and in the View Settings, change the 'Lines Per Page' to 20 (default is 50).
Alternatively, from CLI these commands accomplish the same:
with vdom mode:
# config globalFortiOS 6.2 and higher, the display for log messages was changed, and instead of pages to go through, the table now loads dynamically while scrolling down; the gui-lines-per-page setting no longer applies to logs.
# config system global
set gui-lines-per-page 20
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