Technical Tip: How to customize global admin SSH and telnet port

[spathak]

Description
This article describes how to customize the global admin SSH and telnet port numer.

Solution
Generally the admin uses SSH and telnet port as standard 22 and 23 respectively.

In order to customize these ports, use following commands:

FortiGate with Vdoms.

For SSH.

# config system global
    set admin-ssh-port <number>  port range 1-65535, default 22
end

For Telnet.

# config system global
    set admin-telnet-port <number>  port range 1-65535, default 23
end

FortiGate wth VDOM enable.

For SSH.

# config global
# config system global
    set admin-ssh-port <number>  port range 1-65535, default 22
end

For Telnet.

# config global
# config system global
     set admin-telnet-port <number>  port range 1-65535, default 23
end