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FortiGate-6000 Administration Guide

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Cluster Status dashboard widget

Cluster Status dashboard widget

The management board GUI dashboard includes the Cluster Status dashboard widget (one of the System widgets). You can use this widget to view the configuration synchronization status of your FortiGate 6000F management board and individual FPCs. The Cluster Status dashboard widget also displays the current number of sessions, memory usage, and CPU usage for the management board and the FPCs. This display allows you to separate management plane resource usage(management board) from data plane resource usage (FPCs). The Cluster Status dashboard widget is only available from the management board GUI.

Note

When adding a FortiGate 6000F to an existing security fabric, for normal operation you must authorize the FortiGate 6000F and all of the FPCs on the root FortiGate. Otherwise, the FortiGate 6000F management board will not be able to communicate with the FPCs. No entries will appear on the Cluster Status dashboard widget until all of the FPCs have been authorized with the root FortiGate.

Synchronization information includes the configuration status, role (primary or secondary), type (management or data), current number of sessions, current memory usage, current CPU usage, time since the last heartbeat was received from the component, the total number of heartbeat packets received from the component, and up time. You can also customize the columns that appear. If an FPC has failed, it will be removed from the list. If an FPC is out of synchronization this will be reflected in the Configuration Status list.

You can hover your mouse cursor over the management board to view more detailed information including the hostname, serial number, firmware version, and FortiClient status.

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Cluster Status dashboard widget

The management board GUI dashboard includes the Cluster Status dashboard widget (one of the System widgets). You can use this widget to view the configuration synchronization status of your FortiGate 6000F management board and individual FPCs. The Cluster Status dashboard widget also displays the current number of sessions, memory usage, and CPU usage for the management board and the FPCs. This display allows you to separate management plane resource usage(management board) from data plane resource usage (FPCs). The Cluster Status dashboard widget is only available from the management board GUI.

Note

When adding a FortiGate 6000F to an existing security fabric, for normal operation you must authorize the FortiGate 6000F and all of the FPCs on the root FortiGate. Otherwise, the FortiGate 6000F management board will not be able to communicate with the FPCs. No entries will appear on the Cluster Status dashboard widget until all of the FPCs have been authorized with the root FortiGate.

Synchronization information includes the configuration status, role (primary or secondary), type (management or data), current number of sessions, current memory usage, current CPU usage, time since the last heartbeat was received from the component, the total number of heartbeat packets received from the component, and up time. You can also customize the columns that appear. If an FPC has failed, it will be removed from the list. If an FPC is out of synchronization this will be reflected in the Configuration Status list.

You can hover your mouse cursor over the management board to view more detailed information including the hostname, serial number, firmware version, and FortiClient status.

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