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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
- Clone a widget
- Topology Maps
  - Create and save views
Monitoring
- Add monitoring to an existing server
- Tags
- Monitoring locations
  - Specifying confirmation check locations
  - Global monitoring network
    - Checker IP changes
- 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
- Azure
  - Azure App Service
- Cisco Meraki
- Kubernetes
  - Kubernetes Details page
Application monitoring
- Get started with Application Monitoring
- Add an Application
Path monitoring
SD-WAN application monitoring
- FortiGate and OnSight configuration for SD-WAN synthetic monitoring
- Set up SD-WAN application monitoring
Security Fabric
- Fabric Tunnel connected to FortiMonitor cloud (FortiOS 7.0 and newer)
- Fabric 7.x OnSight proxy
- Fabric 6.x Integration
- Fabric integration via FortiManager proxy
Network device monitoring
NetFlow monitoring
- Estimator mode
VMware
Network checks
- Network service 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 FortiMonitor Agent checks
- FortiMonitor Agent Security
- Windows Agent auto-update
- Add plugins to a blacklist
- Add metrics using Windows Performance Monitor
- Prepare a FortiMonitor Agent for server imaging/cloning
- Rebuild the FortiMonitor Agent metadata
- IP matching
- Start or end Maintenance from the FortiMonitor Linux Agent
- Migrate configuration to FortiMonitor Agent
- Troubleshooting the FortiMonitor Agent
- Automate the Agent installation
  - Use the FortiMonitor Agent manifest file
  - Remove an instance automatically
- Custom metrics and incidents
- Application plugins
Endpoint Agent
- Add a Windows Endpoint FortiMonitor Agent
- Add a MacOS Agent
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
- Manage and configure your OnSight vCollector
- OnSight custom metrics
- Additional setup and helpful tips
SNMP
- SNMP traps
- SNMP polling
- Configure SNMP alert thresholds
- SNMP troubleshooting
Alerting
- Alert Timelines
- Email
- SMS
- Integrations
- 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
- Incident Solutions
- Create an incident using email
Reports
- 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)
Multi-tenancy
- Manage subtenants
- Manage a multi-tenant environment
  - Multi-tenant dashboards
- White label options
Mobile app
- Acknowledging incidents and other actions
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
- Device variables
- NCM Slack configuration
- System login
- Discovery
- Scheduling
- User security and access roles
- Sensitive data stripping
FAQ
- Data Retention and Compliance
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24.2.0

Automate the Agent installation

Automate the FortiMonitor Agent installation

There are a few ways you can automate the installation of the Agent on your servers, you can read this installation article for servers that are not yet in FortiMonitor.

You can also use the Agent Manifest File as a template for Server Agent installation. This is extremely helpful if you also have a template that you would like to apply to a server.

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Automate the FortiMonitor Agent installation

There are a few ways you can automate the installation of the Agent on your servers, you can read this installation article for servers that are not yet in FortiMonitor.

You can also use the Agent Manifest File as a template for Server Agent installation. This is extremely helpful if you also have a template that you would like to apply to a server.

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