Monitoring and reporting
Managed service providers (MSPs) require the ability to offer both fully managed and co-managed services, and therefore needs to be conscious of deploying a solution that can be both multi-tenanted, and allow per-tenant deliverables to be customized.
As detailed earlier in this document, FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager are the tools used by MSPs to provide complete configuration, reporting, and monitoring of the Secure SD-WAN and SD-Branch environment. However, these platforms are typically deployed within the MSP infrastructure, and best practice dictates that an end-customer should not have direct access to multi-tenant management platforms.
However, before looking at the customer presentation layer, we need to bring it back to the FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager architecture, initially focusing on sizing.
This section includes the following topics: