Cisco Business Dashboard and Probe Administration Guide, Version 2.8.0

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Cisco Business Dashboard and Probe Administration Guide, Version 2.8.0

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Dashboard

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Updated:
September 7, 2023

Chapter: Dashboard

Dashboard

This chapter contains the following sections:

About the Dashboard

The Dashboard page in the Cisco Business Dashboard lets you view the performance of the network in real time. It shows all the devices and provides the data in a graphical format.

This dashboard is a customizable arrangement of widgets that you can select. Following are the widgets included by default in the dashboard:

Widget

Description

Inventory Summary

Displays a breakdown of the devices discovered in the network.

Device Health

Displays the overall health of the devices in the network.

Wireless Clients by SSID

Displays the number of devices associated with the selected wireless network.

Wireless Clients by Device

Displays the number of devices associated with the selected wireless access point.

Wireless Top Ten

Displays the top ten wireless networks, access points, or clients based on traffic or client count.

Traffic

Displays a graph of the traffic flowing through the selected interface.

Switch Port Utilization

Displays the percentage of switch ports in-use vs. total number of switch ports.

Switch PoE Utilization

 Displays a graphic representation of the PoE utilization status.

Controls on each of the widgets allows the data shown to be customized. The organization drop-down at the top right of the Dashboard may be used to restrict the information displayed to a specific organization.

In the graphical widgets, click on the labels in the legend on the graph to toggle the display of each set of data. This allows you to further refine the data being shown and can help with troubleshooting a specific device on your network, or even the network itself.

Adding a Widget

This feature allows you to add one or more widgets to the existing default ones displayed in the dashboard to monitor tasks specific to a device or network you wish to view.

Procedure

Step 1

Click the Dashboard Edit icon to open the edit window. + icon beside each widget name.

Step 2

To add a widget, click the + icon beside each widget name.

Step 3

Drag the new widget to the desired location in the dashboard and resize if necessary.

Modifying a Widget

You can modify any widget on your dashboard with the following steps:

Procedure

Step 1

Click the Config Widget icon on the top right of the widget to modify parameters such as sample interval or thresholds.

Step 2

Use the drop-down lists within the new widget to select the specific data you wish to display.

Step 3

To change the title of the Widget click the Edit Mode icon.

Important

 

You must be in Edit Mode in the Dashboard to change the title of a widget.

Deleting a Widget

Procedure

Step 1

Click the Dashboard Edit icon and select Edit Mode.

Step 2

Click the remove widget icon at the top right of the widget to be removed. Rearrange the remaining widgets as desired.

Modifying the Dashboard Layout

The Dashboard layout can be customized using the following steps:

Procedure

Step 1

Click the Dashboard Edit icon and select Edit Mode.

Step 2

Click in the header of a widget and drag to move the widget in the Dashboard. Other widgets will adjust dynamically to make room. Click and drag on the edge or corner of a widget to re-size. As you rearrange the layout, the dashboard will automatically re-size to fit in the available width.

Step 3

Click the Dashboard Edit icon again and select View Mode to preserve the changes.

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