General Dashboard

The Dashboard tab provides three high-level summaries of information and network analytics, selectable from the Select Dashboard menu at the top of the page. See the following: 

• Timeline Status Summary: This dashboard displays the Network Scorecard (seen here), a numeric metric that provides an at-a-glance overall assessment of the current state of the network. The Timeline Status Summary also provides graphs showing the most-changed devices, a policy compliance breakdown, and historical graphs of percent policy compliance, issue variation, and changes:

  • Policy Compliance: This chart shows the daily percentage of all managed devices, as a pie chart, that match against Policy Compliance Rules from the defined Policy Compliance criteria in the NetMRI system. The Percent Policy Compliance bar chart shows the same daily data as a progression from one day to the next.

  • Issue Variation: This chart lists the following data points for the overall daily issue status in the NetMRI system or the Operations Center: The daily Overall Score in yellow, the total issue count, and Delta (change in the number of Issues; this value can be positive or negative for the time period measurement) in blue; and the number of Added and Deleted Issues in blue. A yellow trendline shows the Overall Score trend over the chart's time period. Green dots at the bottom of the chart are the activity indicators for the measurement time period, showing the number of added or deleted issues. Clicking the trendline opens the Network Analysis > Issues page, showing the corresponding Overall Score History stacked bar chart.

  • Changes: This shows a bar chart and trendline for specified time increments, with the bar chart indicating the total number of changes, breaking out the administrative and hardware changes for the time period, and the trendline showing the average rate of changes across the entire chart time period.

• Issue Summary: This dashboard replicates the Network Scorecard, shows a Top Issue Types bar chart and a Top Affected Devices bar chart, and displays historical graphs of issue type and instance trends. 

  • Top Issue Types and Top Affected Devices: These show an overview of Issues that appear most frequently in the managed network, and the devices exhibiting the largest number of Issues.

  • New Issue Types: This table lists all new Issues of specific types that appear for the current time period (corresponds to the #New column in the main Network Analysis > Issues page).

  • New Issue Instances: This table provides the number of devices affected by each Issue type (this value corresponds to the #Affected value on the main Issues page).

  • Type Issue Trend: This area chart combines sections for severity Info (blue), severity Warning (yellow), and severity Error (red), each of which are links to the main Issues page showing a table only for the issues of the chosen severity type.

  • Type Instance Trend: This area chart combines sections for severity Info (blue), severity Warning (yellow), and severity Error (red), each of which are links to the main Issues page showing a table only for the issues of the chosen severity type.

• Change Summary: This dashboard shows most-changed types, most-changed models, most-changed devices, number of changes detected over time, and most-active change makers.

The main Dashboard page and Network Analysis > Issues page display the Network Scorecard, which is a quick-glance guide to the overall status of all Issues in the managed network.

See About the Network Scorecard for more information about this tool.

• To select among the dashboard types, open the Select Dashboard list, then click the desired type.

• To change the date or period for information displayed in the Dashboard, see Setting the Date and Period.

• To change the scope of information displayed in the Dashboard, select an item in the Select Device Groups pane on the right.

  The Select Device Group pane on the Dashboard tab displays only extended device groups, i.e. groups that allow for calculations.

• To view supporting data, hover the cursor over various elements in graphs and charts.

• To zoom in on the Timeline Status Summary graphs, drag to select the section you want to see zoomed in. When you release the mouse button, all three graphs will zoom in.

• To zoom out the Timeline Status Summary graphs (after zooming in), click Show All below the center graph.