By Manny Fernandez

June 7, 2020

Reverting from Comprehensive Mode to Optimal Mode on FortiOS 6.4.1

If you are like me, you turn on all kinds of features just because.  I upgraded my lab FortiGate to 6.4.1 the say it released.  I knew the monitor section had been moved since I have been playing with betas for a while.  I decided to change the Dashboard section to Comprehensive.  It turned out I started having strange issues like unable to get to the CLI from the GUI

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Also, I lost the Firewall Policy menu item and things were just out of control.  I created another user and nothing.  Turned out it was a browser issue on two different computers.  I was running Firefox v77.0.1.  After clearing cache and browser history, all was right as rain.

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At any rate, I wanted to show you how to revert from comprehensive mode.

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Go to your Dashboard and then at the bottom, you will see the three dots.  When you click them, you will see the

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You should now see the following pop-up

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The new default is Optimal.  Just switch it to Optimal or Comprehensive and hit OK.

 

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