FortiPortal

FortiPortal is a comprehensive end-user self-service portal designed for enterprises, education institutions, and governments—specifically optimized for service providers. FortiPortal enables MSSPs to assign common firewall configurations and monitoring tasks to users in different geographies.

FortiPortal enables service providers to delegate the configuration and analytics to end-customers, business units, and departments in a multitenant environment, allowing them to monitor client bandwidth usage and monetize through automation.

This easy to deploy, turnkey portal delivers customer and device views that streamline adding clients and devices. Customers can quickly see usage, traffic, and other valuable summaries with an audit view and a customizable dashboard containing intuitive widgets. At the same time, self-branding enables a customer to retain their brand on the UI.

FortiPortal assists service providers in delivering the quickest time-to-market services by avoiding the need to develop costly portals.

FortiPortal provides end-users with an easy-to-use self-service customer portal, giving them access to secure SD-WAN capabilities, such as SD-WAN monitoring and templates, policies and objects, analytical dashboards, views and reports, WiFi, audit, and additional resources, such as documentation and links.

FortiPortal is delivered as an on-premises virtual machine hosted in the service provider datacenter. Optionally, it can be installed as a management extension within FortiManager.

In this guide, we will focus on the monitoring functionality provided by FortiPortal and do not give any details or recommendations on the configuration part.

The key features of FortiPortal are:

• Dashboard: FortiPortal’s customer dashboard provides helpful visualizations to give users a first glimpse and overall picture of their network traffic and security posture, including filterable and intuitive widgets for Top Countries, Top Threats, Top Sources, Top Destinations, Top Applications, and Policy Hits as well as graphics to show Admin Logins, System Events, and Resource Usage. Users can drill down on the widgets to explore and investigate further.
• Device Manager: use the Device Manager tab to configure VPN IPsec, routers, and secure software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN). Authentication servers support LDAP with password reset support, RADIUS, TACACS, and local authentication. Users can also view and manage their DHCP servers.
• SD-WAN: FortiPortal makes it easy for enterprises and service providers to configure secure SD-WAN and monitor SD-WAN interfaces, with intuitive tables, widgets, and map views that provide diagnostic visibility of interfaces, jitter, latency, volume, bandwidth, sessions, and more, enabling organizations to modernize their traditional WAN networks to meet the growing needs of the digital evolution. The Device Manager module has been updated with an enhanced SD-WAN monitoring map. A new drilldown history view improves users’ capability to analyze overall bandwidth utilization, traffic trends, and application performance.
• Views: FortiPortal’s enhanced View page provides comprehensive visibility into device and network configurations. It displays security and event information by application, source, or destination, with filters and controls that allow easy navigation. Customers gain meaningful insights into network activity and threats in the Monitor view with new secure SD-WAN widgets, VPN with History timelines for SSL and Dialup, and site-to-site IPsec. Top Threats and Top Sources views provide intuitive interfaces that can be filtered and searched with text search. Users can further research Log View with FortiGate Event and UTM data, Traffic, IPS, Antivirus, DNS, Application Control, Web Filter, and Event and Sandbox logs. Users can also filter by log type, site, date, and time, and choose from many columns and fields for a more thorough analysis.
• Policy and Objects: Policy and Objects views allow users to centrally manage and configure the devices managed by the FortiManager unit. This function includes the basic network settings to connect the device to the corporate network, antivirus definitions, intrusion protection signatures, access rules, and managing and updating firmware for the devices. FortiPortal’s Policy and Objects views provide users with a transparent view and access to policies and objects for any configuration tasks that the service provider delegates and that have been defined on FortiManager.
• WiFi: use the WiFi tab for updating or deleting managed access points (APs), monitoring rogue access points, Fortinet access points (FAPs), and SSIDs, and updating or deleting access point profiles and SSIDs.
• Audit: the Audit tab displays a log of user activity on the administrative GUI by date, which can be searched by level, user, type, IP, or message description, which can be exported to a CSV file for further analyses.
• Reports: FortiPortal Reports provides administrators with the ability to easily create and assign reports to users. The Reports page displays a list of available FortiPortal or FortiAnalyzer reports. It allows users to select reports, set filters, run reports, and search reports based on the roles assigned by the service provider.