
Assessing Your Environment With Dashboards
Dashboards allow you to keep a constant eye on your environment. Dashboards are collections
of monitors. Monitors can be anything from a chart-based query, to a small web application,
like the MyAvert Security Threats, that is refreshed at a user-configured interval.
Users must have the appropriate permissions to use and create dashboards.
Are you setting up dashboards for the first time?
When setting up dashboards for the first time:
1
Review the conceptual topics in this section to better understand dashboards and dashboard
monitors.
2
Decide which default dashboards and default monitors you want to use.
3
Create any needed dashboards and their monitors, and be sure to make active any you
want available as tabs from the navigation bar.
Contents
Dashboards and how they work
Setting up dashboard access and behavior
Working with Dashboards
Dashboards and how they work
Dashboards are collections of user-selected and configured monitors that provide current data
about your environment.
Queries as dashboard monitors
Use any chart-based query as a dashboard that refreshes at a user-configured frequency, so
you can use your most useful queries on a live dashboard.
Default dashboard monitors
This release of ePolicy Orchestrator ships with several default monitors:
• MyAvert Security Threats — Keeps you aware of which DATs and engines are available, what
threats they protect, and the versions that are currently in your master repository.
• Quick System Search — A text-based search field that allows you to search for systems by
system name, IP address, MAC address, or user name.
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