Technical Tip: How to add FortiView Monitor when ‘Add Monitor’ is missing in the tree menu

GeorgeZhong · ‎01-21-2024

Description

This article describes how to add the FortiView Monitor widget back when the FortiView Monitor section in the Dashboard tree menu is entirely missing.

Scope

FortiGate v6.4 and above.

Solution

From v6.4, FortiView monitors are available in the tree menu under Dashboards. The menu contains several default monitors for the top categories. Additional FortiView monitors are available as widgets that can be added to the dashboards.

In a normal scenario, FortiView monitors can be added directly to the tree menu with the 'Add (+)' button. Unnecessary FortiView monitors can also be deleted from the action menu.

There is one situation where all FortiView monitors are removed from the tree menu. In this case, the FortiView monitor section is entirely missing so the ‘Add Monitor’ button is no longer available here.

To add the FortiView monitor back, open any option under ‘Dashboard’ such as ‘Network’ and expand any ‘Widget’ in this dashboard to full screen.

Select the ‘Save as Monitor’ button at the right side of the banner.

The FortiView Monitor and the 'Add (+)' button come up again in the Dashboard tree menu.