| Description | This article describes how to create an administrator account that never times out and how this can be used to monitor the resource and session. |
| Scope | FortiGate. |
| Solution |
FortiGate provides a holistic view of the overall topology via Security Fabric. To access the Fabric and Fortiview an admin has to login to the firewall.
The login to the firewall introduces a few challenges: 1) Accidental configuration change. 2) Time out due to inactivity while monitoring.
Thus, to overcome this issue, the following workaround can be applied: 1) Create a new admin profile with all permissions set to read-only. 2) Enable ‘Never Timeout’ under the read-only profile.
3) Create a new administrator and select the read-only profile created as per step 2.
4) Logout and Login as the new admin. 5) The new admin will only have read access and can monitor the pre-configured dashboard.
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