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Forcepoint Appliances Command Line Interface > System configuration > Host name and description
Host name and description
CLI Guide | Forcepoint Appliances | v8.4.x
 
Action and Syntax
Details
View the appliance hostname and description.
show system host
The hostname is set initially during the firstboot wizard.
Change the hostname and description for the appliance.
set system host
--name <name>
[--description <description>]
You may choose to use the fully qualified hostname plus a user-defined description.
Name: The hostname must be 1 to 60 characters long.
*
The first character must be a letter.
*
Other characters can be letters, numbers, dashes, or periods.
*
The name cannot end with a period.
*
The name cannot have 2 periods in a row.
For Web mode appliances where Content Gateway will be configured to perform Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), the hostname cannot exceed 11 characters, excluding the domain name.
In addition, if the hostname is changed after the appliance has been joined to a domain, IWA will immediately stop working and will not work again until the domain is unjoined and then re-joined with the new hostname.
For more information, see the "Integrated Windows Authentication" topic in the Content Gateway Manager Help.
Description (optional): A unique appliance description to help you identify and manage the system.
*
May contain up to 100 characters
Example:
(config)# set system host --name
fp-apweb1.example.com
--description "New York gateway."

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