Enabling FortiView

By default, FortiView is enabled on FortiGates running FortiOS firmware version 5.2 and above. You will find the FortiView consoles in the main menu. However, certain options will not appear unless the FortiGate has Disk Logging enabled.

Only certain FortiGate models support Disk Logging. A complete list of FortiGate platforms that support Disk Logging is provided in the matrix below.

To enable Disk Logging
  1. Go to Log & Report > Log Settings and select the checkbox next to Disk.
  2. Apply the change.
To enable Disk Logging - CLI

config log disk setting

set status enable

end

FortiView feature support - platform matrix

Note that the following table identifies three separate aspects of FortiView in FortiOS, which are explained in greater detail below:

Platform Basic Feature Support Disk Logging Historical Data *
FG/FWF-30D/E Series x    
FG/FWF-50E x    
FG/FWF-51E x x 1 hour
FG-52E x x 1 hour
FG/FWF-60D/E x    
FG-61E x x 1 hour
FG/FWF-70D Series x    
FG-80D x x 1 hour
FG-80E x    
FG-81E x x 1 hour
FG/FWF-90D x x 1 hour
FG-90E x    
FG-91E x x 1 hour
FG/FWF-92D Series x x 1 hour
FG-100D x x 24 hours
FG-100E x    
FG-101E x x 24 hours
FG-200D x x 24 hours
FG-200E x    
FG-201E x x 24 hours
FG-300D x x 24 hours
FG-300E x    
FG-301E x x 24 hours
FG-400E x    
FG-500D x x 24 hours
FG-500E x    
FG-501E x x 24 hours
FG-600D x x 24 hours
FG-600E x    
FG-601E x x 24 hours
FG-800D x x 24 hours
FG-900D x x 24 hours
FG-1000D x x 24 hours
FG-1200D x x 24 hours
FG-1500D x x 7 days
FG-2000E x x 7 days
FG-2500E x x 7 days
FG-3000D x x 7 days
FG-3100D x x 7 days
FG-3200D x x 7 days
FG-3700D/DX x x 7 days
FG-3800D x x 7 days
FG-3810D x x 7 days
FG-3815D x x 7 days
FG-3960E x x 7 days
FG-3980E x x 7 days
FG-5001D x x 7 days

a = Default support.

* Refer to section on Historical Data below.

Basic feature support

FortiView's consoles give insight into your user's traffic, not merely showing which users are creating the most traffic, but what sort of traffic it is, when the traffic occurs, and what kind of threat the traffic may pose to the network.

FortiView basic feature support consists of the following consoles:

The complete array of features in FortiView requires disk logging enabled (see below). It includes those consoles listed above as well as the following:

Historical data

Not all consoles have the same available historical data options, depending on whether or not your traffic is locally stored.

Below is a table showing which features are available for units using local storage, including the historical data options.

note icon Only FortiGate models 100D and above support the 24 hour historical data.
Features With Local Storage Without Local Storage
  Now 5 min 1 hr 24 hr * Now 5 min 1 hr 24 hr
Sources x x x x x      
Destinations x x x x x      
Interfaces x x x x        
Policies x x x x        
All Sessions x x x x x      
Applications x x x x x      
WiFi Clients   x x x        
Cloud Applications x x x x x      
Web Sites x x x x        
Threats   x x x        
Threat Map x              
FortiSandbox   x x x        
System Events   x x x        
VPN   x x x        

* Not available for desktop models with SSD.

7-day time display

As mentioned previously, certain models support 7-day time display. These models are listed below:

  • FortiGate 1000D
  • FortiGate 1500D
  • FortiGate 3700DX
  • FortiGate 3700D

The option for 7-day time display, however, can only be configured in the CLI using the following command:

config log setting

set fortiview-weekly-data {enable|disable}

end

Disk logging

Only certain FortiGate models support Disk Logging (see above).

To enable Disk Logging, go to Log & Report > Log Settings, and select the checkbox next to Disk and apply the change. Some devices will require disk logging to be enabled in the CLI, using the following command:

config log disk setting

set status enable

end

Configuration dependencies

Most FortiView consoles require the user to enable several features to produce data. The following table summarizes the dependencies:

Feature Dependencies (Realtime) Dependencies (Historical)
Sources None, always supported Traffic logging enabled in policy
Destinations None, always supported Traffic logging enabled in policy
Interfaces None, always supported Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
Policies None, always supported Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
All Sessions None, always supported Traffic logging enabled in policy
Applications None, always supported Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
Application control enabled in policy
WiFi Clients SSID must be in Tunnel mode Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
SSID must be in Tunnel mode
Cloud Applications Not supported Disk logging enabled
Application control enabled in policy
SSL "deep inspection" enabled in policy
Deep application inspection enabled in application sensor
Extended UTM log enabled in application sensor
Web Sites Disk logging enabled
Web Filter enabled in policy
"web-url-log" option enabled in Web Filter profile
 Disk logging enabled
Web Filter enabled in policy
"web-url-log" option enabled in Web Filter profile
Threats Not supported Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
Threat weight detection enabled
Threat Map Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
Threat weight detection enabled
 Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
Threat weight detection enabled
FortiSandbox Not supported Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy
System Events Not supported Disk logging enabled
VPN Not supported Disk logging enabled
Traffic logging enabled in policy