Chapter 12: Logging and Reporting > Using the system dashboard

Using the system dashboard

The system dashboard is displayed when you log into the system (or into a virtual domain). It enables you to monitor system-wide health and utilization. You can also use it to perform some operational tasks.

Figure  55 shows the system dashboard. Table 105 describes the information and utilities present in system dashboard portlets.

 Table 105:   System dashboard portlets
Portlet Information and Utilities
Status
System Information
  • Hostname, current time, system uptime, serial number, firmware version.
  • Operations: Update firmware, upload license, reboot, shutdown, reset.
System Resources CPU utilization, Memory utilization, disk utilization, concurrent connections, connections per second, inbound throughput, outbound throughput.
License Information
  • License status, support contract information, and FortiGuard services version information.
  • Operations: Upload license, navigate to the support site, or navigate to the FortiGuard services configuration page.
Recent Event Logs Tail of the event log.
Data Analytics
Session Total System totals for concurrent connections and connections per second over the past day, hour, month, week, or 10 minutes.
Throughput Total System totals for inbound and outbound throughput over the past day, hour, month, week, or 10 minutes.
Fast Reports Fast reports that you configure are also displayed on this tab. Fast reports show "top" reports by sessions or throughput over the past day, hour, month, week, or 10 minutes.
Virtual Server (Server Load Balance)
Network Map Each virtual server is a tree. The status of the virtual server and real server pool members is displayed. You can filter and/or search the network map. Filters are applied before search terms. For example, if you filter by l7-load-balance type, only that set of data is searched.
Virtual Servers
  • Status of configured virtual servers.
  • Select the Monitor checkbox to display throughput and connections graphs.
  • Click the Real Server link to display status and throughput for the virtual server’s real server pool.
Session/Persist Table  
Gateways (Link Load Balance)
Gateways Drill-in: Select the Monitor checkbox to display throughput and session information.
FQDN (Global Load Balance)
DNS responses A table of DNS responses per pool member.
HA Status
HA Status HA mode and details for HA member nodes.
Session
SLB session table Current sessions. You can define and apply multiple filters. After configuring filters, click OK and the table is redisplayed with matching records.
Persist
SLB persistence table Current sessions. You can define and apply multiple filters. After configuring filters, click OK and the table is redisplayed with matching records.

Before you begin:

To display the dashboard:

Figure  55:   System dashboard

Figure  56:  Dashboard Network Map

Figure  57 shows the dashboard virtual server report.

Figure  57:  Dashboard Virtual Server report

Figure  58 shows the dashboard gateways report.

Figure  58:  Dashboard Gateways report