Overview of dashboards

The top-level Dashboards tab provides a flexible dashboard presentation system that can depict the real-time status of raw and correlated messages on the system. As an operator, you can configure new dashboards, create drill-down dashboards, and set a default dashboard. The different dashboards are displayed as a series of tabs. You can access additional dashboards through the drop-down menus at the top or bottom of the page.

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The following image displays a typical dashboard:

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Each dashboard consists of one or more panels, and each panel contains a gadget. Various gadgets are provided with the base BMC Defender Server installation, and other gadgets are available from a variety of sources. You can edit gadget parameters or move a gadget to a new location on the dashboard. You can also configure gadget panel titles to link to other dashboards.

Within each panel of the dashboard, specify a gadget to depict a particular type of data. Each gadget depicts the data in a variety of formats, and with a variety of possible arguments. For example, the Top Devices gadget displays top device activity based on specified criteria, such as most-recently updated devices or most-active devices. The parameters of each gadget are similar, but can be slightly different depending upon the data to display. Generally, you can qualify lists of items based upon match expressions, address groups, filters, or other items. The Top Devices gadget allows you to view at all top devices, or the top devices associated with a particular address group.

Most gadgets support various display modes, such as horizontal bar chart, pie chart, stack chart, or tabular display. These different display modes affect the look of the gadget, but not the particular data that is to be displayed. Some of these display modes require Java, whereas others do not. The particular aesthetics of the dashboard are flexible, and completely controlled by the end user.


Where to go from here

Review the descriptions of dashboard gadgets and then add and edit a dashboard.


 

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