Technical Tip: How to manually add EMS pre-defined hostname

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Description	This article describes how to add the EMS pre-defined hostname setting manually.
Scope	FortiClient EMS v7.0 and v7.2.
Solution	By default, 'Pre-defined hostname' is greyed out and it cannot be modified through the EMS GUI, as shown in the picture below. For some reason, adding a new hostname to EMS can be done via the following steps: Take a VM snapshot of the EMS server for recovery purposes.  In the Windows Server, navigate to the directory 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Fortinet\FortiClientEMS\Fcm\fcm'. Locate the file settings.py -> Open with Notepad or Notepad++. Edit the line below and save it: PREDEFINED_ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1','R2D2-kvm72','localhost'] Reboot the server for it to take effect.