An existing Fortinet SD-WAN customer who has recently deployed FortiSASE wants to have a comprehensive...

For customers with hybrid environments (on-premises SD-WAN branches and remote FortiSASE users), theFortiOS 7.6andFortiSASEcurriculum recommends centralized log aggregation for unified visibility.

Centralized Reporting:The standard architectural best practice is toforward logs from FortiSASE to an external FortiAnalyzer (Option C).

Unified View:Since the customer's on-premises FortiGate SD-WAN branches are already sending logs to an existing FortiAnalyzer, adding the FortiSASE log stream to that sameFortiAnalyzerallows for the creation ofcombined reports.

Fabric Integration:This setup leverages theSecurity Fabric, enabling the FortiAnalyzer to provide a single pane of glass for monitoring security events, application usage, and SD-WAN performance metrics across the entire distributed network.

Why other options are incorrect:

Option A:SOCaaSis a managed service for threat monitoring, not a primary tool for an administrator to generate combined SD-WAN/SASE operational reports.

Option B:FortiSASE is not designed to act as a log collector or reporting hub for external on-premises FortiGates.

Option D:Data flows from the source (FortiSASE) to the collector (FortiAnalyzer), not the other way around.