Technical Tip: How to split the inbound and outbound traffic report in Dashboard widget

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Description

This article describes the Bandwidth monitor widget as an area graph, it shows cumulative bandwidth usage for inbound traffic and outbound traffic over the selected interface.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

Via GUI.

Set the widget size to 3x1.

Via CLI:

config system admin

    edit admin
        config gui-dashboard
            edit 1               <----- This should be the Dashboard Status.
                config widget

Search for the ID used to monitor the interface port, below is an example of the lab output:

                    edit 12

                         set type tr-history
                         set x-pos 11
                         set width 2
                         set height 1
                         set interface "port2"
                             edit <ID>
                                 set width 4
                end
        end
end