GUI-based global search

The global search option in the GUI allows users to search for keywords appearing in objects and navigation menus to quickly access the object and configuration page. Click the magnifying glass icon in the top-left corner of the banner to access the global search.

The global search includes the following features:

• Keep a history of frequent and recent searches

• Sort results by relevance (by search weight), or alphabetically in increasing or decreasing order

• Search by category

• Search in Security Fabric members (accessed by the Security Fabric members dropdown menu in the banner)

• Search for dashboard widgets and monitors, and preview the widget or go directly to the monitor dashboard if it exists.

Examples

In this example, searching for the word ZTNA yields the following results:

• A ZTNA server, user group, and SAML SSO server that have the ZTNA in the Name field.

• Various ZTNA tag.

• ZTNA navigation tree items: Policy & Objects > ZTNA and Log & Report > ZTNA Traffic.

• The FortiView ZTNA Servers dashboard widget.

CMDB objects have a higher search weight (50) than navigation objects (20), so the navigation menus and widgets appears at the bottom of the results when sorting by relevance.

In this example, searching for the address 10.100.88.5 yields the following results:

• Various address objects that have a subnet of 10.100.88.5.

• A Virtual IP/Server object, EMS, that has a mapped IP address/range with 10.100.88.5.

• Address objects that have IP subnets of 0.0.0.0/0, which the search term falls into.

• Address group objects that contains members addresses that have IP subnets of 0.0.0.0/0.

Sorting by Relevance displays address objects that are more closely matched at the top (10.100.88.5), and more loosely matched at the bottom (0.0.0.0).