A status dashboard contains widgets from which you can view and manage data. Widgets are the building blocks of status dashboards. For more information about widgets, see Adding Widgets to Dashboards below. They provide information about different aspects of your Grid and networks. For example, the Member Status widget provides general information about a Grid member, and the Network Statistics widget provides data for a specified network.

The appliance provides a default status dashboard. Grid Manager displays the default dashboard only when there is more than one widget on the dashboard. You can add and modify widgets in the default dashboard, but you cannot rename or delete it. From a dashboard, you can access your most commonly accessed tasks and monitor appliance status. You can configure your own status dashboards to which you can add widgets that help you manage different data. Configuring multiple status dashboards helps organize widgets in a meaningful way and improves dashboard and widget performance. This is especially useful when you have a Grid serving a large number of Grid members. When you configure a new dashboard, you can use the existing dashboard as a template. You can create up to 100 copies at a time using the Add Dashboard option. For information about how to add status dashboards, see Adding Status Dashboards below.

You can add widgets to different dashboards, however, you can add only one widget at a time on each dashboard. The default number of widgets per dashboard is 10. The maximum number of widgets that you can add on each dashboard is 20 at a time. You can define the number of widgets that can be configured on each dashboard in User Profile. This limitation applies only to dashboards that you configure and does not apply to the default dashboard. For information about how to specify the widget limit, see Configuring Widget Limit per Dashboard below.

Grid Manager provides a default Security dashboard if you have installed any or all of the following licenses on the appliance: Threat Protection, RPZ, and Threat Analytics. The Security dashboard contains widgets that help you monitor the security status of the Grid. In the Security dashboard, you can add and remove widgets, but you cannot rename or delete them.

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• Add new status dashboards, as described in Adding Status Dashboards below.
• Rename a dashboard, as described in Renaming Status Dashboards below.
• Copy or move a widget, as described in Copying or Moving Widgets below.
• Reorder dashboards, as described in Reordering Status Dashboards below.
• Delete dashboards, as described in Deleting Status Dashboards below.
• Configure widget limit, as described in Configuring Widget Limit per Dashboard below.
• Configure Security dashboard properties, as described in Configuring Security Status Thresholds below. Adding Widgets to Dashboards

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1. Default Status Dashboard: From the Dashboards -> Status tab -> Default tab, click the Configure icon -> Add Content. This is applicable when you have the default dashboard only.
   Configured Status Dashboards: From the Dashboards -> Status tab, select the configured status dashboard, click the Configure icon -> Add Content.
   Security Status Dashboard: From the Dashboards -> Status tab -> Security tab, click the Configure icon -> Add Content. This is applicable only when at least one member in the Grid has Threat Protection, RPZ, or Threat Analytics license. Note that the Security Status dashboard is a default dashboard and it cannot be renamed or deleted.
   Grid Manager displays thumbnails of the available widgets. Use the scroll bar on the right to scroll through the widgets, as illustrated in the below Widgets Panel figure.
2. Click an icon on the filter panel, as illustrated in the Widgets Panel figure, to add a widget to the desired dashboard. The Filter panel is categorized into the following:
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   When you click on an icon, Grid Manager displays thumbnails of the widgets belonging to the respective filter. If you click filters one after the other without clicking Reset, Grid Manager displays thumbnails of all widgets along with the icon that indicates the category to which the widget belongs. Click Reset to view only those widgets that belong to the selected category.

3. Select and drag a widget to the desired location on your dashboard. You can also click  icon to add a widget to the desired dashboard.
   After you add a widget to the dashboard, you can configure it to provide relevant data. You can also copy or move a widget, by selecting and dragging it to its new location on your dashboard. Grid Manager saves your dashboard configuration and displays it the next time you log in.
   You can turn on auto-refresh by clicking On in the Turn Auto Refresh field at the top of the dashboard to periodically refresh the contents of all widgets in the dashboard. Click Off to disable auto-refresh for all widgets in the dashboard. When auto-refresh is disabled, you can enable it for individual widgets by clicking the Configure icon in the corresponding widgets. You can specify the auto-refresh period in seconds. The default auto-refresh period is 30 seconds.

Widgets have the following icons:

• Copy/Move: Click to copy or move the widget from a dashboard to another. For information about how to copy or move, see Copying or Moving Widgets below.
• Span Up/Span Down: Click to resize the widget. Click Span Up to increase the width of the widget. Click Span Down to decrease the width of the widget. Note that the fully spanned widgets are moved to the top of the dashboard.
• Refresh: Click to update the content of the widget. Each widget contains a status bar at the bottom that displays the last date and time it was updated.
• Configure: Click to hide and show the configuration options of the widget.
• Toggle: Click to minimize and restore the widget.
• Close: Click to remove the widget from a dashboard.

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• Show all Grid members (this is the default)
• Only show members with service warnings or errors: When you select Only show members with service warnings or errors, the widget displays only the members that have service errors. The widget does not display any data in the member table if all the services on all members are running properly.

Group Members by: If you want to group members by the same extensible attribute value, select this and choose an extensible attribute from the drop-down list. The appliance groups Grid members that have the same extensible attribute value, and the Grid Status displays the following information:

• <Extensible Attribute  Name>: The value of the selected extensible attribute. You can click the link of the extensible attribute value to view all the members in this group in the Grid/Members view.
• Status: This is the overall status for all members in the group. Depending on the status of each member, the overall status can be one of the following:
  • Working: Indicates that all the members in the group are running properly.
  • Warning: Indicates that one of the members in the group has operational problems. For example, if there are two members in a group with one member Running and another member is Offline, then the overall status will be Warning.
  • Failed: Indicates that at least one of the members in the group is in the failed status and none of the members in the group are in the Running or Working status. For example, if there are two members in the group and one of them is in Failed status and the other is Offline, then the overall status is Failed.
  • Offline: Indicates that one or more members in the group is offline and none of the members in the group are in the Failed or Running status. For example, if a member is in the Working status and another member is in the Offline status, then overall status is Offline.
  • Inactive: Indicates that one or more members in the group is inactive and none of the members in the group are in the Failed, Offline, Working, or Running status.
  • Unknown: Indicates that the status of all the members in the group is unknown.

The Grid Status widget also displays the following information in the member table:

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In the upper section of the widget, Grid Manager displays the overall status of the Grid. The Grid status represents the status of the most critical member in the Grid. When all Grid members are running properly, the overall Grid status is green. When one of the members has operational issues, the overall Grid status is red. The status icon can be one of the following:

This section also displays the overall operational status of the DNS, DHCP, NTP, FTP, TFTP, HTTP (File Distribution), bloxTools, Captive Portal, Subscriber Collection, Cloud DNS Sync, DNS Accelerator usage, and Reporting services that are currently running on the Grid. The status icon can be one of the following:

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Click the Configuration icon again to hide the configuration panel after you complete the modification.

Grid Manager displays the hostname of the appliance at the top of the widget. You can click the name link to view detailed information about the appliance. The widget also displays the upgrade status if the member is currently in the process of an upgrade. If the member is scheduled for an upgrade, the Scheduled for upgrade link appears. You can click this link to access the Grid tab -> Upgrade tab to view more details about the date and time of the scheduled upgrade.

The widget also displays the service status of the following: FTP, TFTP, HTTP (File Distribution), DNS, DHCP, NTP, bloxTools, Captive Portal, Subscriber Collection, Cloud DNS Sync, DNS Accelerator, and Reporting in the Services section. The service status can be one of the following:

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• Click Select Member. In the Member Selector dialog box and select a Grid member from the list.
• CPU: Select which type of CPU usage you want to track:
  • User: The CPU usage of user applications, such as programs and libraries.
  • System: The CPU usage of the kernel and drivers.
  • Idle: The percentage of CPU that is not in use.
• System Memory: Select which portion of the system memory you want to track:
  • Real Memory Used: The physical RAM usage.
  • Swap Used: The swap area usage. The swap area is the disk area that temporarily holds a process memory image.
• NIC Usage: Select how you want to measure network traffic:
  • Bytes: Reports the number of bytes.
  • Packets: Reports the number of packets.

• NIC Settings: Select the port on which you want to measure network traffic. If you have configured VLANs, Grid Manager displays them in the format LAN1 nnnn or LAN2 nnnn, where nnnn represents the associated VLAN ID. For example, a VLAN configured on LAN1 can be displayed as LAN1 297 and a LAN2 VLAN can be LAN2 21. For more information about VLANs, see VLAN Management.

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• CPU Utilization and Top N Processes: Set the auto refresh period in this section. NIOS displays the information for all available cores.
  • Auto Refresh Period for CPU Utilization and Top N Processes: Enter the time interval in seconds for the CPU Core Utilization graph and the top N process data to auto refresh and display the CPU core utilization information. If you enter 12, the graph displays new information after every 12 seconds. You can enter a minimum refresh interval of 10 seconds and a maximum refresh interval of 30 seconds. By default, the time interval is set to 10 seconds. This field is applicable only to the CPU Utilization and Top N Processes tabs.
• Auto Refresh Period: Enter the refresh interval in seconds for the data in the CPU, System Memory, and NIC Usage tabs to auto refresh.

The System Activity Monitor widget displays a tab for each resource: CPU, System Memory, NIC Usage, CPU Utilization, Top N Processes.

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• CPU: The graph on the CPU tab tracks the percentage of CPU usage.
• System Memory: The graph on the System Memory tab tracks the memory utilization percentage.
• NIC Usage: The graph on the NIC Usage tab tracks either bytes or packets per second.
• CPU Utilization: If you select the Live option, the graph tracks live CPU utilization data for the last 10 minutes for all CPUs in your Grid member. The graph is refreshed based on the time interval you specify in the Auto Refresh Period for CPU Utilization and Top N Processes field. Each CPU is denoted in a different color. If you select the Historical option, you can view the CPU utilization data for up to a maximum of past 60 minutes based on the time range you specify in the Earliest and Latest fields. For example, if you enter 2019-09-05 and 09:20:42 AM in the Earliest field and 2019-09-05 and 10:20:42 AM in the Latest field, the graph displays the CPU utilization data for 5th September 2019 between 9:20:42 AM and 10:20:42 AM. You can view data for a maximum of past of 5 days but the time difference between Earliest and Latest time should not exceed 60 minutes.
• Top N Processes: If you select the Live option, the table displays the process ID and name of the top N processes that are consuming CPU utilization. N is the number that you specify in the Number of Top Processes field on the Monitoring tab of the Grid Properties editor. It also displays the percentage of CPU utilized by each process. The data is refreshed based on the time interval you specify in the Auto Refresh Period for CPU Utilization and Top N Processes field. If you select the Historical option, you can view past top N process data based on the time range you specify in the Earliest and Latest fields. For example, if you enter 2019-09-05 and 09:20:42 AM in the Earliest field and 2019-09-05 and 10:20:42 AM in the Latest field, the graph displays the top process data on 5th September 2019 between 9:20:42 AM and 10:20:42 AM. You can view data for a maximum of 5 days.

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• Server Name: The hostname of the Microsoft server.
• IP Address: The IP address of the Microsoft server.
• Status: The connection status of the Microsoft server.
  • OK: The Grid member is connected to the Microsoft server.
  • Connecting: The Grid member is connecting to the Microsoft server.
  • Error: The Grid member tried to connect to the Microsoft server, but failed. You can check the syslog for any messages.
  • Not Available: The Microsoft server is disabled. The Grid member does not try to connect to disabled servers.
• DNS: The status of the DNS service on the Microsoft server. The DNS service status can be one of the following:

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• DHCP: The status of the DHCP service on the Microsoft server. The DHCP service status can be one of the following:

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•  Left click the Action icon next to a zone to perform the following:
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  • View Syslog: Select this to open the Syslog Preview dialog and view data discrepancy events for the selected zone. 
  • Check Now: Select this to perform DNS integrity check to immediately query current DNS data from the top-level parent domain. When you select this, verbose logging for DNS integrity check is automatically enabled. After the operation is complete, the appliance updates the timestamp for the Last Checked column.
• Zone: Displays the name of the top-level authoritative zones that is being monitored for DNS integrity check. You can click the zone name and the appliance opens the zone viewer for the selected zone.
• Status: Displays the current DNS data discrepancy status. The status can be one of the following:
  • Critical (red): Data in the NS RRsets for the authoritative and delegate zones are completely out of synchronization.
  • Severe (orange): Some data in the NS RRset between the authoritative and delegate zones overlaps and some data is different.
  • Warning (yellow): The NS RRset for the authoritative zone is a subset of the NS RRset for the delegate zone. It is possible that incorrect IP addresses have been entered at the registrar.
  • Informational (blue): The NS RRset for the delegate zone is a subset of the NS RRset for the authoritative zone. This could indicate a possible delay in domain registration.
  • Normal (green): There are no DNS data discrepancies between the NS RRsets for the authoritative and delegated zones.
  • None (black): No DNS discrepancies data has been collected or DNS integrity check has not been performed.
• Last Checked: The timestamp in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS when the parent domain was last queried for its DNS data.
• Description: Information about the zone.

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You can also click Go to Syslog Viewer on the upper right corner of the dialog to view all events in the syslog. For more information about the syslog, see Viewing the Syslog.

Cloud Statistics

The Cloud Statistics widget appears only when you have deployed the Cloud Network Automations license on the Grid Master. This widget displays statistical information for cloud objects. It contains the following tabs: Tenant & VMs, Fixed vs. Floating and Available vs. Allocated. You must install valid cloud related licenses to access this widget. For more information about installing licenses and enabling Cloud Network Automation, see Deploying Cloud Network Automation.
To modify the Cloud Statistics widget, click the Configure icon and select one of the following:

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The Health tab displays information of RPZ zones and their last updated date and time. This data is retrieved directly from the database. Note that you cannot sort or filter values on this tab. You can export the data displayed on this tab by clicking the Export icon. For more information, see Exporting Displayed Data.

Response Policy Zone (RPZ) Status for Member

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• Client Hits: Total number of queries that triggered an RPZ policy. Note that this option is not displayed when you choose Stacked Diagram, but displayed only when you choose Line Diagram.
• Passthru Hits: Total number of queries that triggered a Passthru RPZ rule. For more information about passthru rules, see Managing Passthru Rules.
• Blocked Hits: Total number of queries that triggered a Block (No Data) or Block (No Such Domain) RPZ rule. For more information, see Managing Block (No Data) Rules or Managing Block (No Such Domain) Rules respectively.
• Substituted Hits: Total number of queries that triggered a Substitute (Domain Name) or Substitute (Record) RPZ rule. For more information, see Managing Substitute (Domain Name) Rules and Managing Substitute (Record) Rules.
• Timestamp: The graph displays a 24 hours time window.
  Note the following about this tab:
• The statistical data in DNS service will be reset when you stop and restart the DNS service or if you force an active DNS service to restart regardless of its state. This results in loss of prior data.
• Using this graph, you can view the timestamp of statistics collection.

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