Wednesday, 23 July 2014

How-to: Change default policy columns on a FortiGate

When you log into a FortiGate and browse to the policies section you will see the pre-defined default policy columns which include seq#, source, destination, schedule, service, action, nat, av etc..



I normally go through and change the columns so that they are more compact. Generally this includes adding the 'policy ID' column, removing the schedules, replacing all the UTM columns with the 'security profiles' column and moving a few others around as per below:



Now this is all well and good, except for the fact that it will only save these columns for the computer and browser that I'm using. If I connect via another browser or from another device then the default columns will show up again.

Good news is that the default columns can all be changed with a setting to ensure that the columns you want to show up by default will, no matter which browser or computer you connect from.