What's New
This release of FortiAIOps 3.0.0 delivers the following new features.
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FortiAI: Intelligent Network Assistance |
This release introduces FortiAI, a generative AI assistant integrated into FortiAIOps. FortiAI simplifies network management by converting natural language questions into actionable intelligence, offering real-time diagnostics, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and step-by-step configuration help across your wireless, wired, and SD-WAN environments. Its powerful AI/ML engine analyzes data from FortiGates, FortiAPs, and FortiSwitches to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and suggest clear remedies. FortiAI continuously recalculates performance baselines and SLA thresholds for precise anomaly detection, helping identify network slowdowns and bottlenecks to maximize uptime. Responses are now delivered in multiple formats, including tabular data and plain text, with information pulled directly from your FortiAIOps environment. Note: In this release, FortiAI is available to all customers as a Beta feature and includes a grant of 5 million tokens for use. |
| Customized Dashboards | FortiAIOps now enables you to create personalized dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your monitoring experience. You can now modify existing layouts by adding or deleting widgets, or create entirely new dashboards with your preferred widgets. |
| WIDS Security Analytics | This release introduces WIDS SLA, to monitor and report on potential Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) attempts across your network. It detects security threats and recommends corrective actions to maintain network integrity, ultimately enhancing security with real-time alerts and actionable insights for faster threat resolution. |
| SD-WAN SLA Enhancements | The SD-WAN SLA monitoring is now enhanced by introducing new sub-classifiers. The real-time FortiGate data is now used to provide deeper, more precise insights into critical performance and interface health issues. This allows for more targeted identification and resolution of problems, ultimately improving the network reliability and efficiency. |
| SD-WAN Monitoring and Insights |
FortiAIOps now enables interface monitoring for SD-WAN devices. The following widgets in the SD-WAN dashboard (Dashboard > SD-WAN) provides a summarized view across multiple FortiGate devices:
The following widgets under the SD-WAN menu (SD-WAN > Insights) provide insights into your network's health and performance:
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| SD-WAN Events Chart | A new SD-WAN Events chart is introduced which captures the number of SD-WAN events across various severity levels within a specified time frame. The severity levels are classified as Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Information, and Debug. |
| Channel Summary | The Channel Summary page under the Wireless menu is now enhanced, offering detailed insights into your wireless network. You can now see how channels are utilized across different frequency bands, how power is being used by various radios in your access points, and channel and power change events over time represented in a bar chart. |
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Remote Admin Authentication |
FortiAIOps now supports remote authentication. In the older releases, only local users were supported. You can now authenticate users through a remote server. To enable this, configure the appropriate remote servers within your network. |
| Export Table in Different Formats |
FortiAIOps now allows you to export tabular data in various formats, including CSV, JSON, plain text, and PDF. You can choose to download either filtered data or all available data in your preferred format. Export option is available in the following pages:
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| CLI and GUI Profile Consistency |
User profiles within FortiAIOps are now consistent across both the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (GUI). This means you can use the same password for both CLI and GUI access. Upon upgrading to release 3.0.0, all your existing user configurations will be automatically synchronized between the CLI and GUI. |
| Time Range Updates for AI Insights Pages |
The time ranges used in the Impacted SLAs, Impacted Devices, and SLA Config pages were inconsistent with those available in the Monitoring section. To ensure a unified and consistent user experience, the time range options for the AI Insights pages are now updated to the following:
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| AI-Driven Anomaly Detection for Wired SLA | The wired SLAs for Throughput and Network have been upgraded for more accurate issue detection. This release introduces intelligent machine learning that analyzes recent switch port statistics. By dynamically learning from recent data, the system can now identify unusual patterns and potential breaches with significantly improved accuracy. |
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Quick Cable Testing for Switches in AI Insights |
A shortcut to initiate cable tests on switches is now available in the Dashboard > Switch section for Throughput SLA with Classifier as low bandwidth and Sub-classifier as poor negotiated speed. If the remedy contains the phrase |
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Switch Monitoring Enhancements |
This release introduces enhanced Switch Health SLA monitoring with the following new sub-classifiers for more detailed insights:
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User Sessions Management |
A new User Sessions sub-menu is now available under User Management, giving you a centralized view of all active user sessions. This window displays crucial details for each session, such as username, IP address, authentication server, login time, connection duration, user agent, and assigned role. |
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REST API Polling Optimizations |
The REST API polling mechanism is now optimized to minimize the utilization of CPU and memory resources on the FortiGate device. |
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GUI Responsiveness Improvements |
The different pages have been refined and optimized to significantly boost GUI responsiveness. This ensures faster loading times, quicker reaction to user input, and an efficient interaction with the application. |
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Dashboard and Navigation Enhancements |
This release significantly enhances your dashboard experience with improved organization and new dashboards.
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