Category Dashboard

Description

The category dashboard shows health and performance data for a particular category. Clicking on the the name of a specific category in Netreo typically opens its category dashboard.

The default device group dashboard for all categories is "Category (Default)" and is found on the Customize Dashboards page (Administration >> Users >> Custom Dashboards). This dashboard may be customized to suit your needs or new category dashboards may be created and assigned to individual categories. See Custom Dashboards for more information.

For Netreo administrators, selecting the gear icon at the top right opens the configuration settings for that category.

Dashboard Tabs

Category dashboards include the following tabs:

• Overview
• Trends
• This Month

Overview Tab

This tab provides a general overview of the current health of the group.

When customizing a category dashboard, this is the tab that is customized.

By default, the following dashboard widgets are included on the Overview tab:

• Tactical Overview

At the top left of the dashboard is the category icon representing this category. The icon appears in the color of the worst status currently being experienced by any of the monitoring checks on any of the managed devices within the group, allowing you to quickly assess the general health of the group.

Trends Tab

This tab shows trends (over the past year) in overall health for the group, as well as trends in device health for managed devices within the group.

You can restrict the hours of operation which are reported upon by selecting a new time frame at the top right and selecting View New Report.

Selecting the name of a specific device opens that device's Device Dashboard, while selecting the name of a specific device group opens the group's device group dashboard.

This Month Tab

This tab shows the health of all host availability checks, service checks and threshold checks for the current month-to-date time period.

You can restrict the hours of operation which are reported upon by selecting a new time frame at the top right and selecting View New Report.

Selecting the name of a specific device opens that device's Device Dashboard.