FortiMonitor Reviews

I use FortiMonitor to monitor our network security and track traffic flow. It provides essential tools to detect potentially harmful activities like hacking or ransomware attacks.

FortiMonitor offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, allowing me to track network traffic in and out effectively. The alerting system is particularly valuable as it circulates emails on network activities, ensuring that our technical and management teams are always informed. This system enables us to maintain email security, a priority in our organization.

I primarily use FortiMonitor for configuring security and the WAN for Fortinet.

FortiMonitor has a very intuitive dashboard, which makes it particularly helpful for analyzing traffic, alerts, and other information. It provides real-time monitoring capabilities and greatly aids in the management of complex networks with multiple branches. The central console allows for comprehensive control, which reduces administrative costs.

It is designed to store data on a website. It offers more features and is entirely based on Insight. When we initiate the process, the server retrieves everything without the need for specifying server IPs like trap or force IP addresses. We simply fetch all the necessary items from the folders. If we're using a cloud service, we only need to configure S, N, and T settings along with ACL. For polling, only 161.4 is necessary, not 162.4, as we don't require additional traffic. Polling begins the discovery process, capturing information from devices, phone systems, Google, MIBs, and OIDs. Afterward, we can create templates tailored to various vendors like Cisco, Avaya, Adidas, or Ubipur. These templates allow us to define SNMP metrics such as bandwidth in and out. 

For FortiGate, we can establish WAN channel lab metrics. Importantly, we can apply a single template to all vendors directly. When we apply a Cisco template to a specific vendor, it automatically configures all devices accordingly.

This tool operates based on agents in various regions. Currently, we deployed twenty-four agents across regions like Asia, India, and the United States. Our E65 servers and VNS servers are located in the US. We've updated eight agents in the US with additional resources. These twenty-four agents run as Docker containers, and we've installed the monitoring application for the cloud within these containers. Initially, we only had eight agents, and bandwidth was limited. After expanding resources, the tool has been functioning well, meeting memory and RAM requirements.

They've introduced an additional feature, unified into UniMas. FortiMonitor manages UniMas, and it functions as a backup and LTM tool. With UniMas in FortiMonitor, configuring a hundred devices from a single source becomes easy. You can input the IPs and configurations, and it will automatically apply them to all hundred devices, facilitating mass configuration changes. By setting up a lifecycle with specific dates and times, you can schedule backups daily or weekly, ensuring data continuity.

Sometimes, this tool doesn't support all vendors immediately. For instance, when a new vendor like Guardicore emerges, it might not be initially supported. In such cases, we collaborate with the vendor's backend team upon customer request. Typically, within a week or two, they implement the necessary support. While this might be a challenge, it's a positive aspect of the tool's evolution. The tool continuously improves, adapting to support new vendors and technologies. Importantly, it automates the process, triggering alerts when devices require attention, and eliminating the need for manual intervention.

FortiMonitor is used for high-level up and down monitoring, as well as proactive management and monitoring.

FortiMonitor is a great compliment to Cradlepoint.

The most valuable feature of this solution is what the devices are used for. We have big backups for our Cradlepoint solutions, but FortiMonitor is a great routing device and we love working with them.

This solution supports dual-factor authentication.

I use the solution in my company as an alarm in the antivirus part.

I work on your website, so I don't use FortiMonitor. However, I may start using the product again in the future since my company might have customers who demand it.

I think its useful feature is its alarms because if some hacker hacks into our system, then users can get an SMS to their mobile phones. Users will come to know of issues immediately, and they will proceed with the security part.

FortiMonitor is very neat due to its fully customizable features for admins. We can easily see in the dashboard the traffic info, including how much traffic is going through, who's trying to access blocked sites, and how much traffic our storage and CMAs are using. Plus, we can check out fan speed, temperature, and system health, which is super handy. If there's a potential hardware issue, FortiGate gives us a heads-up in advance, which is really helpful, especially in a busy telco environment where we're always on the go 24/7.

In FortiMonitor, we're linked up with our Netgear, CactusServer, and NOC. It's really valuable because everything's migrating to one dashboard for us system engineers. We can keep an eye on traffic, blocked sites, and the health of our hardware. That last part, about knowing if something's going to fail soon, is super important. It gives us time to sort things out before any big problems happen.

As a system engineer, I need to keep tabs on everything – temperature, monitoring systems, and network operations. This data is really handy because it helps me ensure our site runs smoothly, whether it's turning systems on or off. Just last night, there was a system failure, but thanks to real-time monitoring, I quickly identified the problem and got the necessary replacement parts.