Fortinet Document Library
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22.2.0
Table of Contents
Getting started
Part 1: Add your infrastructure to FortiMonitor
Part 2: Monitoring
Part 3: Alert Timelines
Part 4: Visualization
Part 5: Team Management
Part 6: Reports
Part 7: CounterMeasures
Supported browsers
Infrastructure Map
Instance Details page
Assign Alert Timelines
Create an Instance Group
My Account
Can I see what changes have been made to my account and by whom?
Manage email preferences
Dashboards
Dashboard widgets
Active Incident Counter
Active Incident Details
Advanced Line Graph
Aggregated Availability
Aggregated Metric
Bar Chart
Fabric topology widget
Gauge
Geomap
HTML Block
Infrastructure Counter
Kubernetes Container Counter
Kubernetes Pod Counter
Line Graph
Metric Heatmap
Metric Rollup
Metric Summary
Network device widgets
Network Interfaces
Resolved Incident Counter
Resolved Incident Details
Server Heatmap
Instance Scorecard
Instance Summary Table
Single Metric
Stoplight
Up/Down
Worst Offenders
Clone a widget
Monitoring
Add monitoring to an existing server
Monitoring check types
Advanced monitoring and tuning
Automation
Tags
Apply tags
Tag a network device port
Manage and view tags
Monitoring locations
Specifying confirmation check locations
Global monitoring network
Advanced monitoring features
Compound metrics
Force a DNS update after an IP address change
Monitoring policies
Monitoring guides
MySQL monitoring
Redis monitoring
Templates
Default templates
Configure a template
Apply server templates
Template pattern matching
Disassociate a template from multiple instances
Cloud monitoring
AWS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 ASG
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElasticSearch
AWS ELB
AWS ELBv2
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS Cluster
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3
Amazon SNS
Amazon FSx
Amazon SQS
AWS VPN
Azure
Azure App Service
Cisco Meraki
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Details page
Security Fabric
Enable Security Fabric monitoring
Network device monitoring
Network checks
Network service checks
DNS
Exchange - OWA
FTP network check
Git
Jabber
Mail checks
MySQL network check
MSSQL network check
Network quality check
Oracle network check
Ping
PostgreSQL network check
SSH
TCP network checks
Synthetic Monitoring
HTTP
HTTPS
Browser synthetic (multistep) check
Available multistep commands
JavaScript synthetic
Set up a JavaScript synthetic check environment
Configure incident alert and response time thresholds
Limit the number of confirmations for an outage
Dynamic variables
FortiMonitor Agent
Install the FortiMonitor Agent
Add a monitoring agent resource
Install the FortiMonitor Agent without root access
Install the Agent on a Docker host
Update the FortiMonitor Agent
Uninstall the Agent
Add FortiMonitor Agent checks
FortiMonitor Agent Security
Add plugins to a blacklist
Add metrics using Windows Performance Monitor
Prepare an Agent for server imaging/cloning
Rebuild the FortiMonitor Agent metadata
IP matching
Start or end Maintenance from the Linux Agent
Troubleshooting the FortiMonitor Agent
Linux Agent
Troubleshooting the Linux Agent Heartbeat Incident
Windows Agent
Troubleshooting Windows Agent Heartbeat Incident
Agent/Metric not showing up in the Control Panel
Automate the FortiMonitor Agent installation
Use the Agent manifest file
Remove an instance automatically
Custom metrics and incidents
Custom metric management
Custom metrics using the command line
Custom plugins for Linux
template.py file
Custom plugins for Windows
template.ps1 file
Create custom incidents
Custom incidents using JSON files
Custom metrics using JSON files
Application plugins
Apache Kafka (Linux)
Apache Webserver
Apache Zookeeper
.NET
Bandwidth (Linux)
Bandwidth (Windows)
Cassandra
CouchDB
CPU (Linux)
CPU (Windows)
Disk (Linux)
Disk (Windows)
Elasticsearch
Exim
File Information (Linux)
File Information (Windows)
HAProxy
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Hyper-V
I/O
IIS
JBoss
JMX (Linux)
JMX (Windows)
Linux Log Monitoring
Memcache
Memory (Linux)
MongoDB
MSSQL
MySQL
Nagios
Nginx
NodeJS
NTP (Linux)
NTP (Windows)
Oracle WebLogic (Linux)
Oracle Weblogic (Windows)
Oracle
Package Upgrades
Patches
PHP-FPM
PHP OPCache
PostgreSQL
Processes (Linux)
Processes (Windows)
Prometheus
Active Directory
RabbitMQ
Redis
Sendmail
TCP
Tomcat (JMX)
Tomcat (Legacy)
Tomcat (Windows)
UDP
UWSGI
Varnish
Windows Log Monitor
Windows Service
SharePoint
Uptime
VMware
Integrate with Domino
Beanstalk
CounterMeasures
Linux CounterMeasures
Standard Linux CounterMeasure actions
Custom Linux CounterMeasure actions
Windows CounterMeasures
Standard Windows CounterMeasure Actions
Custom Windows CounterMeasures actions
OnSight-based CounterMeasures
CounterMeasures security
CounterMeasures Slack integration
OnSight vCollector
One-liner installer
OnSight virtual image installation
OnSight AMI installation
OnSight for Azure installation
Automate the OnSight deployment
Monitor a device that has not been discovered with OnSight
OnSight discovery
Upgrading the OnSight
2020.68 or newer OnSight versions
2020.51 to 2020.67
2020.50 and lower OnSight versions
Manage and configure your OnSight vCollector
Additional setup and helpful tips
Access the OnSight web console
Set up an OnSight in HA or for failover
Use OnSight as a proxy for the FortiMonitor Agent
Move instances from an OnSight to another
OnSight security
Set up SSH access to the OnSight virtual appliance
Configure OnSight to use an HTTP proxy
AMI Onsight vCollector rotation procedure
SNMP
SNMP traps
SNMP polling
Configure SNMP alert thresholds
SNMP troubleshooting
Alerting
Alert Timelines
Create an Alert Timeline
Configure who gets alerted during an outage
Change the amount of time between an outage happening and the first notification
Respond to an incident and delay further alerts
Prevent active outages from creating alerts
Simulate an outage
Disable Incident Resolved alerts
Email
SMS
Troubleshooting SMS alerts
SMS and voice numbers for alerts
Wireless carrier compatibility
Integrations
ServiceNow
Slack
Microsoft Teams
HipChat
Campfire Chat
StatusPage.io
PagerDuty
OpsGenie
Webhooks
Jira and Jira Service Desk
Zendesk
Salesforce
Limit the number of confirmation checks for an outage
Set up an On-Call schedule
Multiple server outages
Notification for an individual service on a server
Long-running incidents
Incident Hub
View incident details
Active Incidents drawer
Incident Solutions
Create an incident using email
Reporting
Create a report
Public status pages
Exporting Metric Reports for long duration time periods
Maintenance Schedules
Maintenance history
API
API keys
View the API library
Custom incidents using API
Postman
Users, Groups, and Authentication
Add users to your account
Access control
Create a Group
Single sign-on (SSO)
Set up SSO Configuration for SAML + ADFS 3.0
Set up SSO with Okta
Set up SSO with Azure Active Directory
Set up SSO with Google Workplace
Multi-tenancy
Manage subtenants
Manage a multi-tenant environment
Multi-tenant dashboards
White label options
Mobile app
Acknowledging incidents and other actions
ElastiFlow
NCM
NCM installation and initial configuration
NCM Supported Devices
Backup
Backup filters
Search syntax help
Mass Config Push
Device mode table
VT100 Control / Command sequences
NCM Slack configuration
System login
Discovery
Scheduling
User security and access roles
Account security roles
Device access restrictions
Accounts with restricted access
Sensitive data stripping
FAQ
Data Retention and Compliance
Get support
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FortiMonitor 22.2.0
User Guide
User Guide
Getting started
Part 1: Add your infrastructure to FortiMonitor
Part 2: Monitoring
Part 3: Alert Timelines
Part 4: Visualization
Part 5: Team Management
Part 6: Reports
Part 7: CounterMeasures
Supported browsers
Infrastructure Map
Instance Details page
Assign Alert Timelines
Create an Instance Group
My Account
Can I see what changes have been made to my account and by whom?
Manage email preferences
Dashboards
Dashboard widgets
Active Incident Counter
Active Incident Details
Advanced Line Graph
Aggregated Availability
Aggregated Metric
Bar Chart
Fabric topology widget
Gauge
Geomap
HTML Block
Infrastructure Counter
Kubernetes Container Counter
Kubernetes Pod Counter
Line Graph
Metric Heatmap
Metric Rollup
Metric Summary
Network device widgets
Network Interfaces
Resolved Incident Counter
Resolved Incident Details
Server Heatmap
Instance Scorecard
Instance Summary Table
Single Metric
Stoplight
Up/Down
Worst Offenders
Clone a widget
Monitoring
Add monitoring to an existing server
Monitoring check types
Advanced monitoring and tuning
Automation
Tags
Apply tags
Tag a network device port
Manage and view tags
Monitoring locations
Specifying confirmation check locations
Global monitoring network
Advanced monitoring features
Compound metrics
Force a DNS update after an IP address change
Monitoring policies
Monitoring guides
MySQL monitoring
Redis monitoring
Templates
Default templates
Configure a template
Apply server templates
Template pattern matching
Disassociate a template from multiple instances
Cloud monitoring
AWS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 ASG
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElasticSearch
AWS ELB
AWS ELBv2
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS Cluster
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3
Amazon SNS
Amazon FSx
Amazon SQS
AWS VPN
Azure
Azure App Service
Cisco Meraki
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Details page
Security Fabric
Enable Security Fabric monitoring
Network device monitoring
Network checks
Network service checks
DNS
Exchange - OWA
FTP network check
Git
Jabber
Mail checks
MySQL network check
MSSQL network check
Network quality check
Oracle network check
Ping
PostgreSQL network check
SSH
TCP network checks
Synthetic Monitoring
HTTP
HTTPS
Browser synthetic (multistep) check
Available multistep commands
JavaScript synthetic
Set up a JavaScript synthetic check environment
Configure incident alert and response time thresholds
Limit the number of confirmations for an outage
Dynamic variables
FortiMonitor Agent
Install the FortiMonitor Agent
Add a monitoring agent resource
Install the FortiMonitor Agent without root access
Install the Agent on a Docker host
Update the FortiMonitor Agent
Uninstall the Agent
Add FortiMonitor Agent checks
FortiMonitor Agent Security
Add plugins to a blacklist
Add metrics using Windows Performance Monitor
Prepare an Agent for server imaging/cloning
Rebuild the FortiMonitor Agent metadata
IP matching
Start or end Maintenance from the Linux Agent
Troubleshooting the FortiMonitor Agent
Linux Agent
Troubleshooting the Linux Agent Heartbeat Incident
Windows Agent
Troubleshooting Windows Agent Heartbeat Incident
Agent/Metric not showing up in the Control Panel
Automate the FortiMonitor Agent installation
Use the Agent manifest file
Remove an instance automatically
Custom metrics and incidents
Custom metric management
Custom metrics using the command line
Custom plugins for Linux
template.py file
Custom plugins for Windows
template.ps1 file
Create custom incidents
Custom incidents using JSON files
Custom metrics using JSON files
Application plugins
Apache Kafka (Linux)
Apache Webserver
Apache Zookeeper
.NET
Bandwidth (Linux)
Bandwidth (Windows)
Cassandra
CouchDB
CPU (Linux)
CPU (Windows)
Disk (Linux)
Disk (Windows)
Elasticsearch
Exim
File Information (Linux)
File Information (Windows)
HAProxy
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Hyper-V
I/O
IIS
JBoss
JMX (Linux)
JMX (Windows)
Linux Log Monitoring
Memcache
Memory (Linux)
MongoDB
MSSQL
MySQL
Nagios
Nginx
NodeJS
NTP (Linux)
NTP (Windows)
Oracle WebLogic (Linux)
Oracle Weblogic (Windows)
Oracle
Package Upgrades
Patches
PHP-FPM
PHP OPCache
PostgreSQL
Processes (Linux)
Processes (Windows)
Prometheus
Active Directory
RabbitMQ
Redis
Sendmail
TCP
Tomcat (JMX)
Tomcat (Legacy)
Tomcat (Windows)
UDP
UWSGI
Varnish
Windows Log Monitor
Windows Service
SharePoint
Uptime
VMware
Integrate with Domino
Beanstalk
CounterMeasures
Linux CounterMeasures
Standard Linux CounterMeasure actions
Custom Linux CounterMeasure actions
Windows CounterMeasures
Standard Windows CounterMeasure Actions
Custom Windows CounterMeasures actions
OnSight-based CounterMeasures
CounterMeasures security
CounterMeasures Slack integration
OnSight vCollector
One-liner installer
OnSight virtual image installation
OnSight AMI installation
OnSight for Azure installation
Automate the OnSight deployment
Monitor a device that has not been discovered with OnSight
OnSight discovery
Upgrading the OnSight
2020.68 or newer OnSight versions
2020.51 to 2020.67
2020.50 and lower OnSight versions
Manage and configure your OnSight vCollector
Additional setup and helpful tips
Access the OnSight web console
Set up an OnSight in HA or for failover
Use OnSight as a proxy for the FortiMonitor Agent
Move instances from an OnSight to another
OnSight security
Set up SSH access to the OnSight virtual appliance
Configure OnSight to use an HTTP proxy
AMI Onsight vCollector rotation procedure
SNMP
SNMP traps
SNMP polling
Configure SNMP alert thresholds
SNMP troubleshooting
Alerting
Alert Timelines
Create an Alert Timeline
Configure who gets alerted during an outage
Change the amount of time between an outage happening and the first notification
Respond to an incident and delay further alerts
Prevent active outages from creating alerts
Simulate an outage
Disable Incident Resolved alerts
Email
SMS
Troubleshooting SMS alerts
SMS and voice numbers for alerts
Wireless carrier compatibility
Integrations
ServiceNow
Slack
Microsoft Teams
HipChat
Campfire Chat
StatusPage.io
PagerDuty
OpsGenie
Webhooks
Jira and Jira Service Desk
Zendesk
Salesforce
Limit the number of confirmation checks for an outage
Set up an On-Call schedule
Multiple server outages
Notification for an individual service on a server
Long-running incidents
Incident Hub
View incident details
Active Incidents drawer
Incident Solutions
Create an incident using email
Reporting
Create a report
Public status pages
Exporting Metric Reports for long duration time periods
Maintenance Schedules
Maintenance history
API
API keys
View the API library
Custom incidents using API
Postman
Users, Groups, and Authentication
Add users to your account
Access control
Create a Group
Single sign-on (SSO)
Set up SSO Configuration for SAML + ADFS 3.0
Set up SSO with Okta
Set up SSO with Azure Active Directory
Set up SSO with Google Workplace
Multi-tenancy
Manage subtenants
Manage a multi-tenant environment
Multi-tenant dashboards
White label options
Mobile app
Acknowledging incidents and other actions
ElastiFlow
NCM
NCM installation and initial configuration
NCM Supported Devices
Backup
Backup filters
Search syntax help
Mass Config Push
Device mode table
VT100 Control / Command sequences
NCM Slack configuration
System login
Discovery
Scheduling
User security and access roles
Account security roles
Device access restrictions
Accounts with restricted access
Sensitive data stripping
FAQ
Data Retention and Compliance
Get support
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