Creating User Account Batch

The FortiGuest allows you to create multiple user accounts at the same time. You can create multiple accounts manually or import from a .csv file.

Account Batch
Random User Account Batch

Account Batch

Perform the following steps to create an account batch.

Navigate to Accounts > Create Account Batch and click New to create an account. Update the following user details.

The Username of the account.
The First Name and the Last Name of the user.
The Password to access the user account. The password must contain at least 2 characters, 2 numbers and 1 symbol (!$^()-_=+{}[];:@#~,<>?).
The Company or organization of the user.
The user Email address.
The Mobile Number of the user.

You can import the user account details in a .csv format. Click Download CSV Template and populate the required fields in the template file. After the template file is updated with user details, click Upload CSV to upload it.
Note: You cannot import more than 3700 local user accounts using the .csv template, at a given time. Currently, multiple iterations are required to import larger number of accounts.

You can create an account batch after the user account details are created/imported as described in the previous steps. Update the following details.

The Batch Name.
Select the associated Account Group and Usage Profile.
Select the Timezone relevant to the users.

Random User Account Batch

You can create a random user account batch when you need to hand out details to visitors, but do not have access to a computer at a given point in time to create and provide the accounts to users. This feature allows you to create accounts in advance and record the details for correlation at a later time.

Click the Create Random User Account Batch tab and update the following details.

The Number of accounts that you want to generate in this batch.
The Batch Name.
Select the associated Account Group and Usage Profile.
Select the Timezone relevant to the user.

Creating User Account Batch

The FortiGuest allows you to create multiple user accounts at the same time. You can create multiple accounts manually or import from a .csv file.

Account Batch

Perform the following steps to create an account batch.

Navigate to Accounts > Create Account Batch and click New to create an account. Update the following user details.

The Username of the account.

The First Name and the Last Name of the user.

The Password to access the user account. The password must contain at least 2 characters, 2 numbers and 1 symbol (!$^()-_=+{}[];:@#~,<>?).

The Company or organization of the user.

The user Email address.

The Mobile Number of the user.

You can create an account batch after the user account details are created/imported as described in the previous steps. Update the following details.

The Batch Name.

Select the associated Account Group and Usage Profile.

Select the Timezone relevant to the users.

Random User Account Batch

Click the Create Random User Account Batch tab and update the following details.

The Number of accounts that you want to generate in this batch.

The Batch Name.

Select the associated Account Group and Usage Profile.

Select the Timezone relevant to the user.

User Guide

Creating User Account Batch