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Important This documentation space contains information about the on-premises version of BMC Helix Discovery. If you are using the SaaS version of BMC Helix Discovery, see BMC Helix Discovery (SaaS).

Default dashboards


Dashboards provide predefined views of your modeled IT infrastructure. 

When you log into BMC Discovery for the first time, the Default dashboard is displayed. On the Home page, the top-left corner displays, <user name>: Default

The following screenshot is an example of a Default dashboard:

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To access the other dashboards available by default, from the Home page menu bar, click the Available dashboards icon dashboards_available.png.

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In the displayed pane, you can click a dashboard name that is most useful to your infrastructure to apply it on your Home page. For example, click Baseline Dashboard. The Home page displays the name of the currently applied dashboard.dashboards_default_prem2.png

Each default dashboard contains a predefined number of sections that contain the latest summarized data accessed from your IT infrastructure. For example, the Baseline Dashboard has Infrastructure Summary, Baseline Support, and other sections.

Default dashboards

The following table lists the types of dashboard that are available in the product by default for displaying status and quick-review information:

Dashboard

Description

Baseline Dashboard

The Baseline dashboard provides information and reports to help you in baselining a data center.

Cloud overview

The Cloud Overview dashboard provides a concise summary of cloud providers, cloud regions, cloud services and administrative collections. It shows reports of unscanned cloud hosts.

Containers

The Containers dashboard provides a summarized chart of the number of containers discovered over time. It also provides links to detailed reports for Kubernetes clusters, Docker Containers, and LPARs containing Application WPARs.

Default

The Default dashboard provides a concise summary of the BMC Discovery view of your IT infrastructure.

Discovery Dashboard

The Discovery dashboard provides information on the current status of the results of discovery.

Hardware Reference Data

The Hardware Reference Data dashboard provides information on the physical and thermal characteristics of the hosts in your IT Infrastructure.

Host Network Summary

The Host Network Summary dashboard provides information on the network connectivity of hosts in your IT Infrastructure.

Host Overview

The Host Overview dashboard provides the following information on the numbers of hosts, the distribution of host types, and the memory and compute power of hosts in your IT infrastructure. Compute power is a rough guide to the power of a host and is determined by multiplying the clock speed by the number of logical CPUs.

Mainframe Overview

The Mainframe Overview dashboard provides summarized charts that display Mainframe software products by type, Mainframe parts, and Mainframe storage subsystem by vendor. The dashboard also provides links to detailed reports for Mainframe Infrastructure and Mainframe Software.

OS Product Lifecycle Analysis

The OS Product Lifecycle Analysis dashboard provides the following information on the OS breakdown on the hosts in your IT Infrastructure. It also provides information about the proximity to those operating systems' end of life.

Operating Systems

The Operating Systems dashboard provides the OS types and versions as well as links to detailed reports on patches and kernels.

Server Consolidation

The Server Consolidation dashboard highlights hosts in your environment that are candidates for consolidation. This is particularly useful when you are planning a data center consolidation project, because it highlights the areas in which you can make the greatest gains.

Software products - Apache Web server

The Apache Web server dashboard provides charts that show information on the Apache webservers in your IT infrastructure.

Software products - Oracle

The Oracle dashboard provides information on the Oracle versions and the servers on which they run in your IT infrastructure.

Software Products Lifecycle Analysis

The Software Product Lifecycle Analysis dashboard provides information on the software products in your IT Infrastructure. It also provides information about proximity to those software products' end of life.

Software Products Summary

The Software Products Summary dashboard provides information about software products identified on your network, the categories of software products identified, and database versions. It also has links to detailed reports about Data Center Standardization Software, Software Inventory, and Database Reports.

Storage Overview

The Storage Overview dashboard provides information about the number of discovered storage devices, systems, pools, and so on, and links to the discovered items. It displays charts for various storage systems and links to detailed reports for Host Storage, SAN Storage, and NAS Storage.

Virtualization

The Virtualization dashboard provides an overview of software running on virtual machines, and the physical hosts on which the virtual machines are hosted.

CMDB Sync Status

The CMDB Sync Status dashboard provides information on the CMDB Synchronization process and each configured connection. Click any row to see the CMDB Connection Status page for that connection.

 

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