Components

The end-customer's FortiGate devices are managed by one or more FortiManagers. Optionally, logs from the FortiGate devices can be gathered by one or more FortiAnalyzers. The portal aggregates the FortiAnalyzer logs into a central database and performs security analytics on the logs.

The portal provides an administrative web interface (for the administrative staff) and a customer web interface (for the end customers).

FortiAnalyzer modes

Starting in FortiPortal 5.2.0, you can go to Admin > Settings and select FortiAnalyzer for the Analytics Data Source setting. This setting changes the display of the Customers page, Add Customer form, and Edit Customer form for administrators. For end customers, this setting changes the display of the dashboard, Reports page, and View page.

FortiAnalyzer mode

The following figure shows the FortiPortal components in FortiAnalyzer mode and a typical customer network.

The FortiPortal solution includes the following components in FortiAnalyzer mode:

• Portal: virtual appliance:
  • Provides the administrator web interface and the customer web interface.
  • Uses the FortiManager API to manage devices, objects, and policies
  • FortiPortal includes only one portal (however, the portal can consist of multiple VM instances for redundancy and/or scalability)
• Portal database: MySQL database:
  • Physical or virtual server provided by the administrator
  • The portal aggregates the logs into this database
  • FortiPortal includes only one portal database

The customer web interface enables each end customer to access/analyze their data and administer their service. For additional information about the customer web interface, see the FortiPortal User Guide (which is also available by selecting the help button in the customer web interface).

The administrative web service allows the administrator to configure the services for each end customer, and to manage the overall cloud service.