View status information about FortiClient Manager. See “Dashboard”.

Select the tabs to view information.

Management Event Summary — View Management events, such as settings changes. See “Management event”.

Pending Action — View pending actions for FortiClient agents. See “Viewing pending actions for FortiClient agents”.

Management Alert — View a list of FortiClient computers that have licensing problems. See “Viewing management alerts for FortiClient agents”.

Select the tabs to view information.

Client Alert Summary — View a brief listing of recent alerts and messages.

Firewall Alert - View firewall alerts for FortiClient agents See “Viewing firewall alerts for FortiClient agents”.

Antivirus Alert - View antivirus alerts for FortiClient agents. See “Viewing antivirus alerts for FortiClient agents”.

Upgrade Alert - View information about failed FortiClient software upgrade attempts. See “Viewing upgrade alerts for FortiClient agents”.

Add FortiClient agents and organize them into client groups. See “Working with clients (FortiClient agents)” and “Working with FortiClient groups”.

Select this node to display all FortiClient agents managed by this FortiManager unit. This node is not visible to a FortiClient group administrator. There are four tabs:

Managed Client - all managed clients. See “Viewing the clients lists”.

Ungrouped Client - managed clients that do not belong to a client group. This node is not visible to a FortiClient group administrator that does not have access to ungrouped clients.

Temporary Client - detected FortiClient agents that are not yet managed. This node is always empty if you selected the Client Discovery option Auto-populate managed clients list, which adds new clients to the Ungrouped Client node. This node is not visible to a FortiClient group administrator.

Unlicensed Client - FortiClient agents with an expired or missing Enterprise license.

Free Edition Client- FortiClient agents running the Free Edition Client.

Select this node to display the FortiClient Group list.

You can use the Client Group Tree to quickly navigate to the group or client that you want to configure.

 

Install the configuration changes to the FortiClient groups and clients. See “Deploying FortiClient agent configurations”.

Retrieve configurations from FortiClient agents and save them in the FortiManager unit. See “Retrieving a FortiClient agent configuration”.

Manage retrieval and deployment of FortiClient software upgrades. See “Working with FortiClient software upgrades”.

Assign license keys to FortiClient groups. See “FortiClient license keys”.

 

Create web filter profiles that you can apply to users and groups. See “Viewing and editing web filter profiles”.

 

System Setting: Configure FortiClient discovery and lockdown settings. See “Configuring FortiClient manager system settings”.

Cluster Setting: Configure settings to create a FortiClient Manager cluster. See “Configuring FortiClient manager clustering”.

Email Alert Setting: Configure sending of email messages for management alerts and management events. See “Configuring email alerts”.

LDAP Settings: Configure settings to access LDAP servers. See “Configuring LDAP for web filtering”.

LDAP Group/User: Assign web filter profiles to Windows AD users and groups. See “Working with Windows AD users and groups”.

Assign client groups to FortiClient group administrators. Available only to administrators with the Super_Admin profile. See “Configuring FortiClient group-based administration”.

Enable Enterprise licensing instead of standard fixed licensing. “Configuring enterprise license management”.