FortiView custom widgets 6.4.1

Custom widgets can be created from predefined Data sources and added to new dashboards in FortiView.

To create a custom widget in FortiView Monitors:

1. Go to FortiView > Monitors and select or create a custom dashboard.
   
2. In the Add Widget window, select the plus icon next to Custom Widgets to create a new widget.
   
3. In the custom widget dashboard, enter the name of the custom widget, then select the Data Source, Chart Type, X Axis or Category field, and Y Axis or Value field.
   1. For Data Source, one of four pre-defined data sources can be selected for a widget: soc-sources, soc-destinations, soc-threats, and soc-sdwan-stats.
      
   2. For Chart Type, one of four chart types can be selected for a widget: Bar Chart, Line Chart, Pie Chart, and Donut Chart.
      
   3. The fields available in the X Axis and Y Axis or Category and Value fields vary depending on the data source selected.
      For example, when the data-source is soc-sources, fields in the X Axis include Device ID, Date/Time, User, Source, Source Interface, Device Source, Device Type, MAC Address, and the fields in the Y Axis include Threat Score, Threat Block, Threat Pass, Bandwidth, Traffic In, Traffic Out, Sessions, Session Block, and Session Pass.
      
   4. For Bar Chart and Line Chart, X Axis is the name field and Y Axis is the value field. For Pie Chart and Donut Chart, Category is the name field and Value is the value field.
4. Before creating the widget, you can specify the Time Frame and Show Top, then click the Preview button to view the widget.
   
5. Click Create to create the widget or click Cancel to discard the widget. After the widget has been created, it will be listed in the Add Widget window under the Custom Widgets category.
   Widgets can be edited or deleted by right clicking them from the Add Widget window and clicking Edit or Delete.
   
   After adding a widget to a custom dashboard, you can select the device, time period, and top results to display from the widget's toolbar.
   
   You can further customize the widget's top results and refresh interval through the widget's settings.