Technical Tip: Overcoming FortiManager 70 character limit for TCL scripts
| Description | This article describes how to overcome 70 character limit when running TCL scripts remotely on FortiGate. |
| Scope | FortiManager. |
| Solution | When running longer commands on FortiOS by utilizing TCL scripts on FortiManager, there is 70 70-character limit, which inserts a space character following every 70th character.
Before:
puts [exec "execute vpn certificate ca import auto http://10.0.0.1/someverylongrequstthatislongerthan70characters\n" "# "]
The solution is to insert a line continuation character '\' and a newline character that has to be escaped '\\n' into the command: After: puts [exec "execute vpn certificate ca import auto http://10.0.0.1/someverylongr\\\nequstthatislongerthan70characters\n" "# "]
 The command now executes correctly. The script output is colored red because the long URL is for testing purposes only.
How to enable TCL script on FortiManager - FortiManager 7.6.3 administration guide |
