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Administration Guide

Setting up FortiAnalyzer
- Connecting to the GUI
  - FortiAnalyzer Setup wizard
  - Activating VM licenses
- Security considerations
- GUI overview
- Target audience and access level
- Initial setup
- FortiManager features
- Next steps
- Restarting and shutting down
FortiAnalyzer Key Concepts
- Operation modes
- Administrative domains
- Logs
- Log storage
- FortiView dashboard
Device Manager
- ADOMs
- FortiClient EMS devices
- Unauthorized devices
- Using FortiManager to manage FortiAnalyzer devices
- Adding devices
- Managing devices
- Device groups
  - Adding device groups
  - Managing device groups
FortiView
- FortiView
- Monitor
- Enabling and disabling FortiView
Log View and Log Quota Management
- Types of logs collected for each device
- Log messages
- Log groups
- Log browse
- Log and file storage
Fabric View
- Fabric Connectors
- Subnets
- Identity Center
  - Identity Center dashboard
- Asset Center
  - Asset Center dashboard
- Configuring endpoint and end user data sources
Fortinet Security Fabric
- Adding a Security Fabric group
- Displaying Security Fabric topology
- Security Fabric traffic log to UTM log correlation
- Security Fabric ADOMs
- Enabling SAML authentication in a Security Fabric
Incident and Event Management
- Event handlers
- Events
- Incidents
FortiSoC
- Viewing FortiSoC dashboards
- Configuring playbook automation
- Threat Hunting
- Outbreak Alerts
Reports
- How ADOMs affect reports
- Predefined reports, templates, charts, and macros
- Logs used for reports
- How charts and macros extract data from logs
- How auto-cache works
- Generating reports
- Creating reports
- Managing reports
  - Organizing reports into folders
  - Importing and exporting reports
- Report template library
- Chart library
  - Creating charts
  - Managing charts
- Macro library
  - Creating macros
  - Managing macros
- Datasets
- Output profiles
  - Creating output profiles
  - Managing output profiles
- Report languages
- Report calendar
  - Viewing all scheduled reports
  - Managing report schedules
FortiRecorder
- Configuring cameras in the Camera Manager
- Face Recognition
- Watching live and recorded video in the Monitor
- Enabling and disabling FortiRecorder
System Settings
- Dashboard
- Logging Topology
- Network
- RAID Management
- Administrative Domains (ADOMs)
- Certificates
- Log Forwarding
- Fetcher Management
- Event Log
  - Event log filtering
- Task Monitor
- SNMP
- Mail Server
- Syslog Server
  - Send local logs to syslog server
- Meta Fields
- Device logs
- File Management
- Advanced Settings
- FortiGuard
  - Subscribing FortiAnalyzer to FortiGuard
  - Licensing in an air-gap environment
- Restart, shut down, or reset FortiAnalyzer
Administrators
- Trusted hosts
- Monitoring administrators
- Disconnecting administrators
- Managing administrator accounts
- Administrator profiles
- Authentication
- Global administration settings
- Two-factor authentication
  - Two-factor authentication with FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiAuthenticator
    - Configuring FortiAnalyzer
  - Two-factor authentication with FortiToken Cloud
High Availability
- Configuring HA options
  - Log synchronization
  - Configuration synchronization
- Monitoring HA status
  - If the primary unit fails
- Load balancing
- Upgrading the FortiAnalyzer firmware for an operating cluster
Collectors and Analyzers
- Configuring the Collector
- Configuring the Analyzer
- Fetching logs from the Collector to the Analyzer
Management Extensions
- FortiSIEM MEA
- FortiSOAR MEA
- Enabling management extension applications
  - CLI for management extensions
- Accessing management extension logs
- Checking for new versions and upgrading
Appendix A - Supported RFC Notes
Appendix B - Log Integrity and Secure Log Transfer
- Maximum TLS/SSL version compatibility
Appendix C - FortiAnalyzer Ansible Collection documentation
Change Log

Home FortiAnalyzer 7.2.4 Administration Guide

7.2.4

Viewing FortiSoC dashboards

FortiSoC includes multiple dashboards for viewing information about playbooks, incidents, and events.

There is a toolbar available for each dashboard, providing the following options:

Dark Mode

Enable/disable dark mode. Dark mode shows a black background for the dashboard.

Refresh

From the Refresh dropdown in the toolbar, you can select a frequency for the dashboard to automatically refresh the information. If you need to manually refresh the dashboard before it is done automatically, click Refresh in the toolbar.

By default, the refresh frequency is set to Manual Refresh. Click Refresh in the toolbar to refresh the dashboard when needed.

Playbooks

The Playbooks dashboard includes:

Total Playbooks Executed	The total number of playbooks executed.
Total Playbook Actions Executed	The total number of playbook actions (tasks) executed.
Playbooks Executed	The number of times each playbook has been run.
Overall Time Saved	The estimated time saved by administrators resulting from FortiSoC automation.
Total Executed Playbooks and Actions	A timeline of the number of playbooks and actions run for each day. Both actions and playbooks can be toggled on or off in the graph by clicking the corresponding name below the graph.

Incidents

The Incidents dashboard includes:

Total Incidents	Displays the total number of incidents created by their status.
Unsolved Incidents	Displays the total number of unsolved (not closed) incidents by severity.
Incidents Timeline	Total incidents breakdown by category trend by day.

Events

The Events dashboard includes:

Total Events Generated/Mitigated/Unhandled	The total number of events with the Generated/Mitigated/Unhandled status created by FortiAnalyzer.
Events by Severity	The total number of events by severity.
Top Events by Type	Total events breakdown by type.
Top Events by Handler	Total events breakdown by event handler.