Rules, Reports and Dashboards Advanced Operations

FortiSIEM enables you to perform the following advanced operations:

• Creating New Rules
• Creating New Reports
• Scheduling Reports
• Customizing Built-in Dashboards
• Creating Custom Dashboards
• Customizing Business Service Dashboards

Creating New Rules

To create new Rules, go to RESOURCES > Rules, choose a folder and click New. Remember to test and activate the rule.

For details, see here.

Rules can also be created from ANALYTICS tab. Once you have run a search, create a rule from it by clicking Actions > Create Rule.

For details, see here.

Creating New Reports

New Reports can be created from RESOURCES > Reports > Choose a Folder > Click New.

For details, see here.

Reports can also be created from ANALYTICS tab. Once you have run a search, you can save it as a Report by clicking Actions > Save as Report.

For details, see here.

Scheduling Reports

Reports can be scheduled to run at later time and contain data for a specific period of time. Go to RESOURCES > Reports > Choose a Report > More > Schedule.

For details, see here.

Customizing Built-in Dashboards

FortiSIEM Built-in Dashboards are organized in Folders with multiple Dashboards in each Folder. You can add dashboards to any Folder or modify the dashboards in any built-in folder. Dashboard modification can include – modifying chart layout, chart settings or even adding new widgets for widget dashboards.

For details, see here.

You can also choose to display only a set of Dashboard Folders by visiting ADMIN > Settings > System > UI > Dashboard Settings.

Creating Custom Dashboards

You can either create a new Dashboard Folder and move dashboards in it or add dashboards to an existing folder.

To create a new Dashboard folder:

1. Click DASHBOARD
2. Open the Dashboard Folder drop-down list.
3. Click New.

To create a new Dashboard for the folder:

1. Select the Dashboard Folder from the drop-down list.
2. Click + to the right of the selected folder.
3. Enter a Name and Dashboard Type from the drop-down list in the Create New Dashboard dialog box.
4. If you created a Widget Dashboard, click + beneath the folder name to add Widgets to the Dashboard.

For details, see here.

Creating Business Service Dashboards

After creating a new Dashboard, choose Type = Business Service Dashboard. Then select the Business Service Selector on the top right to add Business Services to the Dashboard.

For details, see here.