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The dashboard gives you a quick view of system health, highlighting the tasks and items you need to work on first. In addition to viewing total system status at a glance, you can managed tasks and send message to other administrators. Customize the dashboard display with the Layout function.

Alerts

Displays all alerts sent relating to all machine IDs that match the current machine ID / group ID filter. The display lists the most recent alerts first. By default, alerts generated within the last 24 hours are highlighted in red. Alerts generated within the last week display in yellow. The color coding lets you quickly distinguish alerts you may not have examined yet.

Agent Status

Summarizes the online status of all machine IDs that match the current machine ID / group ID filter. Gives you an at-a-glance count of how many machine are online, have users logged into them, have not been online for more than 30 days, and how many total machines on match the current filter.

Patch Status

Pie chart highlighting machines missing patches. The chart displays either with or without applying the Patch Approval policy. Click the Use Policy button to apply the Patch Approval policy when generating the pie chart. Click Hide Policy to generate the pie chart without the patch approval policy (to show all missing patches including those denied by patch approval). Clicking on any pie segment opens a sub window listing all machine IDs that make up that pie segment.

NOTE: The Patch Approval policy incurs a significant performance penalty. If you have a lot of machine IDs this pie chart takes a long time to generate when using the patch approval policy.

Operating Systems

Pie chart showing the mix of operating systems in use by the machines matching the current machine ID / group ID filter. Clicking on any pie segment opens a sub window listing all machine IDs that make up that pie segment.

Tickets

Lists recent tickets issued against the selected machine IDs.

Tasks

Place to create, edit, and monitor tasks for yourself or other administrators. Use this section to keep track of tasks you need to perform. A pop up window alerts you when new tasks are created for you have been added to your task list. Addition pop ups occur when the task becomes past due. You may elect to have the system remind you again later of a past due task, buy clicking a snooze button.

Messages

Place to create and monitor messages between you and other administrators. Use this section to send messages to other administrators and view messages sent to you from other administrators (you can also send yourself messages). A pop up window alerts you when new arrive.