Description
This article describes how to set the CLI output to standard (no pause), or more (pause once the screen is full, resume on key press).
This setting only applies to console commands (serial console, web console or SSH) show, ? (question mark) or get commands. It doesn't apply to debugs or sniffer output.
Scope
FortiGate.
Solution
Through the FortiGate's CLI, the default behavior to display the command output is by a method called 'paging', displaying content and displaying more by interaction. Paging on FortiGate is enabled by default with the setting 'more' and is exhibited below:
FGT # show
....
config system global
set admin-scp enable
set admin-sport 4443
set admin-telnet disable
set autorun-log-fsck enable
set cfg-save manual
set device-idle-timeout 60
set gui-local-out enable
set gui-theme onyx
set management-port-use-admin-sport disable
set proxy-auth-timeout 5
set switch-controller enable
set sys-perf-log-interval 1
set timezone "Europe/Amsterdam"
end
config system accprofile
edit "prof_admin"
set secfabgrp read-write
set ftviewgrp read-write
set authgrp read-write
set sysgrp read-write
set netgrp read-write
set loggrp read-write
--More--
Output resumes on key press (typically the space key) or can be interrupted with the button press of 'q'. By default, output paging is enabled; however, to view the whole command output, such as when saving console output to a log file, this gets in the way since it repeatedly displays the message --More-- in each output window.
To remove the pause between output data, use these CLI commands:
config system console
set output standard
end
To bring paging back:
config system console
set output more
end
Notes:
- This setting is global and, as such, can have unintended consequences for other administrators, especially on a serial console. For example, if 'show' is typed without any context, FortiGate will show the complete configuration without stopping until the output is completed.
- This is useful for saving the configuration through SSH without having breaks between outputs.
- This is also useful when FortiManager uses CLI scripting to apply configuration changes through the FGFM tunnel.
- This command can also be used in FortiSwitch CLI when FortiSwitch is added as an unmanaged switch.
- Debug output is not affected by this change.
