- Getting Started With Firepower
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- An Overview of Network Analysis and Intrusion Policies
- Layers in Intrusion and Network Analysis Policies
- Getting Started with Intrusion Policies
- Tuning Intrusion Policies Using Rules
- Tailoring Intrusion Protection to Your Network Assets
- Sensitive Data Detection
- Globally Limiting Intrusion Event Logging
- The Intrusion Rules Editor
- Intrusion Prevention Performance Tuning
- Security, Internet Access, and Communication Ports
- Command Line Reference
Firepower Management Center Configuration Guide, Version 6.0
- Updated:
- April 12, 2018
Chapter: Dashboards
- About Dashboards
- Firepower System Dashboard Widgets
- Widget Availability
- Dashboard Widget Availability by User Role
- Predefined Dashboard Widgets
- The Appliance Information Widget
- The Appliance Status Widget
- The Correlation Events Widget
- The Current Interface Status Widget
- The Current Sessions Widget
- The Custom Analysis Widget
- The Disk Usage Widget
- The Interface Traffic Widget
- The Intrusion Events Widget
- The Network Compliance Widget
- The Product Licensing Widget
- The Product Updates Widget
- The RSS Feed Widget
- The System Load Widget
- The System Time Widget
- The White List Events Widget
Dashboards
The following topics describe how to use dashboards in the Firepower System:
About Dashboards
Firepower System dashboards provide you with at-a-glance views of current system status, including data about the events collected and generated by the system. You can also use dashboards to see information about the status and overall health of the appliances in your deployment. Keep in mind that the information the dashboard provides depends on how you license, configure, and deploy the system.
 Tip | The dashboard is a complex, highly customizable monitoring feature that provides exhaustive data. For a broad, brief, and colorful picture of your monitored network, use the Context Explorer. Dashboards are available on the Firepower Management Center and 7000 & 8000 Series devices. |
A dashboard uses tabs to display widgets: small, self-contained components that provide insight into different aspects of the system. For example, the predefined Appliance Information widget tells you the appliance name, model, and currently running version of the Firepower System software. The system constrains widgets by the dashboard time range, which you can change to reflect a period as short as the last hour or as long as the last year.
The system is delivered with several predefined dashboards, which you can use and modify. If your user role has access to dashboards (Administrator, Maintenance User, Security Analyst, Security Analyst [Read Only], and custom roles with the Dashboards permission), by default your home page is the predefined Summary Dashboard. However, you can configure a different default home page, including non-dashboards. You can also change the default dashboard. Note that if your user role cannot access dashboards, your default home page is relevant to the role; for example, a Discovery Admin sees the Network Discovery page.
You can also use predefined dashboards as the base for custom dashboards, which you can either share or restrict as private. Unless you have Administrator access, you cannot view or modify private dashboards created by other users.
 Note | Some drill-down pages and table views of events include a Dashboard toolbar link that you can click to view a relevant predefined dashboard. If you delete a predefined dashboard or tab, the associated toolbar links do not function. |
In a multidomain deployment, you cannot view dashboards from ancestor domains; however, you can create new dashboards that are copies of the higher-level dashboards.
Firepower System Dashboard Widgets
A dashboard has one or more tabs, each of which can display one or more widgets in a three-column layout. The Firepower System is delivered with many predefined dashboard widgets, each of which provides insight into a different aspect of the Firepower System. Widgets are grouped into three categories:
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Analysis & Reporting widgets display data about the events collected and generated by the Firepower System.
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Miscellaneous widgets display neither event data nor operations data. Currently, the only widget in this category displays an RSS feed.
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Operations widgets display information about the status and overall health of the Firepower System.
The dashboard widgets that you can view depend on:
- the type of appliance you are using
- your user role
- your current domain (in a multidomain deployment)
In addition, each dashboard has a set of preferences that determines its behavior.
You can minimize and maximize widgets, add and remove widgets from tabs, as well as rearrange the widgets on a tab.
Widget Availability
The dashboard widgets that you can view depend on the type of appliance you are using, your user role, and your current domain (in a multidomain deployment).
In a multidomain deployment, if you do not see a widget that you expect to see, switch to the Global domain. See Switching Domains on the Firepower Management Center.
Note that:
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An invalid widget is one that you cannot view because you are using the wrong type of appliance.
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An unauthorized widget is one that you cannot view because your user account does not have the necessary privileges.
For example, the Appliance Status widget is available only on the Management Center for users with Administrator, Maintenance User, Security Analyst, or Security Analyst (Read Only) account privileges.
Although you cannot add an unauthorized or invalid widget to a dashboard, an imported dashboard may contain unauthorized or invalid widgets. For example, such widgets can be present if the imported dashboard:
Unavailable widgets are disabled and display error messages that indicate why you cannot view them.
Individual widgets also display error messages when those widgets have timed out or are otherwise experiencing problems.
Note | You can delete or minimize unauthorized and invalid widgets, as well as widgets that display no data, keeping in mind that modifying a widget on a shared dashboard modifies it for all users of the appliance. |
Dashboard Widget Availability by User Role
The following table lists the user account privileges required to view each widget. Only user accounts with Administrator, Maintenance User, Security Analyst, or Security Analyst (Read Only) access can use dashboards.
Users with custom roles may have access to any combination of widgets, or none at all, as their user roles permit.
Predefined Dashboard Widgets
The Firepower System is delivered with several predefined widgets that, when used on dashboards, can provide you with at-a-glance views of current system status. These views include:
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data about the events collected and generated by the system
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information about the status and overall health of the appliances in your deployment
Note | The dashboard widgets you can view depend on the type of appliance you are using, your user role, and your current domain in a multidomain deployment. |
- The Appliance Information Widget
- The Appliance Status Widget
- The Correlation Events Widget
- The Current Interface Status Widget
- The Current Sessions Widget
- The Custom Analysis Widget
- The Disk Usage Widget
- The Interface Traffic Widget
- The Intrusion Events Widget
- The Network Compliance Widget
- The Product Licensing Widget
- The Product Updates Widget
- The RSS Feed Widget
- The System Load Widget
- The System Time Widget
- The White List Events Widget
The Appliance Information Widget
The Appliance Information widget provides a snapshot of the appliance. It appears by default on the Status tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard. The widget provides:
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the name, IPv4 address, IPv6 address, and model of the appliance
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the versions of the Firepower System software, operating system, Snort, rule update, rule pack, module pack, vulnerability database (VDB), and geolocation update installed on the appliances with dashboards, except for virtual Firepower Management Centers
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for managed appliances, the name and status of the communications link with the managing appliance
You can configure the widget to display more or less information by modifying the widget preferences to display a simple or an advanced view; the preferences also control how often the widget updates.
The Appliance Status Widget
The Appliance Status widget indicates the health of the appliance and of any appliances it is managing. Note that because the Firepower Management Center does not automatically apply a health policy to managed devices, you must manually apply a health policy to devices or their status appears as Disabled. This widget appears by default on the Status tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
You can configure the widget to display appliance status as a pie chart or in a table by modifying the widget preferences.
The preferences also control how often the widget updates.
You can click a section on the pie chart or one of the numbers on the appliance status table to go to the Health Monitor page and view the compiled health status of the appliance and of any appliances it is managing.
The Correlation Events Widget
The Correlation Events widget shows the average number of correlation events per second, by priority, over the dashboard time range. It appears by default on the Correlation tab of the Detailed Dashboard.
You can configure the widget to display correlation events of different priorities by modifying the widget preferences, as well as to choose a linear (incremental) or logarithmic (factor of ten) scale.
Check one or more Priorities check boxes to display separate graphs for events of specific priorities, including events that do not have a priority. Choose Show All to display an additional graph for all correlation events, regardless of priority. The preferences also control how often the widget updates.
You can click a graph to view correlation events of a specific priority, or click the All graph to view all correlation events. In either case, the events are constrained by the dashboard time range; accessing correlation events via the dashboard changes the events (or global) time window for the appliance.
The Current Interface Status Widget
The Current Interface Status widget shows the status of all interfaces on the appliance, enabled or unused. On a Firepower Management Center, you can display the management (eth0, eth1, and so on) interfaces. On a managed device, you can choose to show only sensing (s1p1 and so on) interfaces or both management and sensing interfaces. Interfaces are grouped by type: management, inline, passive, switched, routed, stacked, and unused.
For each interface, the widget provides:
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the link mode (for example, 100Mb full duplex, or 10Mb half duplex) of the interface
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the amount of data received (Rx) and transmitted (Tx) by the interface
The color of the ball representing link state indicates the current status, as follows:
The widget preferences control how often the widget updates.
The Current Sessions Widget
The Current Sessions widget shows which users are currently
logged into the appliance, the IP address associated with the machine where the
session originated, and the last time each user accessed a page on the
appliance (based on the local time for the appliance). The user that represents
you, that is, the user currently viewing the widget, is marked with a user icon
(
)
and rendered in bold type. Sessions are pruned from this widget’s data within
one hour of logoff or inactivity. This widget appears by default on the Status
tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
On the Current Sessions widget, you can:
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click any user name to manage user accounts on the User Management page.
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click the host icon (
)
or compromised host icon (
)
next to any IP address to view the host profile for the associated machine.
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click any IP address or access time to view the audit log constrained by that IP address and by the time that the user associated with that IP address logged on to the web interface.
The widget preferences control how often the widget updates.
The Custom Analysis Widget
The Custom Analysis widget is a highly customizable widget that allows you to display detailed information on the events collected and generated by the Firepower System.
The widget is delivered with multiple presets that provide quick access to information about your deployment. The predefined dashboards make extensive use of these presets. You can use these presets or create a custom configuration. At a minimum, a custom configuration specifies the data you are interested in (table and field), and an aggregation method for that data. You can also set other display-related preferences, including whether you want to show events as relative occurences (bar graph) or over time (line graph).
The widget displays the last time it updated, based on local time. The widget updates with a frequency that depends on the dashboard time range. For example, if you set the dashboard time range to an hour, the widget updates every five minutes. On the other hand, if you set the dashboard time range to a year, the widget updates once a week. To determine when the dashboard will update next, hover your pointer over the Last updated notice in the bottom left corner of the widget.
Displaying Relative Occurrences of Events (Bar Graphs)
For bar graphs in the Custom Analysis widget, the colored bars in the widget background show the relative number of occurrences of each event. Read the bars from right to left.
The direction icon (
) indicates and controls the sort order of the display. A downward-pointing icon indicates descending order; an upward-pointing icon indicates ascending order. To change the sort order, click the icon.
Next to each event, the widget can display one of three icons to indicate any changes from the most recent results:
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The new event icon (
) signifies that the event is new to the results. -
The up arrow icon (
) indicates that the event has moved up in the standings since the last time the widget updated. A number indicating how many places the event has moved up appears next to the icon. -
The down arrow icon (
) indicates that the event has moved down in the standings since the last time the widget updated. A number indicating how many places the event has moved down appears next to the icon.
Displaying Events Over Time (Line Graphs)
If you want information on events or other collected data over time, you can configure the Custom Analysis widget to display a line graph, such as one that displays the total number of intrusion events generated in your deployment over time.
Limitations to the Custom Analysis Widget
A Custom Analysis widget may indicate that you are unauthorized to view the data that is configured to display. For example, Maintenance Users are not authorized to view discovery events. As another example, the widget does not display information related to unlicensed features. However, you (and any other users who share the dashboard) can modify the widget preferences to display data that you can see, or even delete the widget. If you want to make sure that this does not happen, save the dashboard as private.
When viewing user data, the system displays only authoritative users.
When viewing URL category information, the system does not display uncategorized URLs.
When viewing intrusion events aggregated by Count, the count includes reviewed events for intrusion events; if you view the count in an event viewer it will not include reviewed events.
Note | In a multidomain deployment, the system builds a separate network map for each leaf domain. As a result, a leaf domain can contain an IP address that is unique within its network, but identical to an IP address in another leaf domain. When you view Custom Analysis widgets in an ancestor domain, multiple instances of that repeated IP address can be displayed. At first glance, they might appear to be duplicate entries. However, if you drill down to the host profile information for each IP address, the system shows that they belong to different leaf domains. |
Example: Custom Configuration
You can configure the Custom Analysis widget to display a list of recent intrusion events by configuring the widget to display data from the Intrusion Events table. Choosing the Classification field and aggregating this data by Count tells you how many events of each type were generated.
On the other hand, aggregating by Unique Events tells you how many unique intrusion events of each type have occurred (for example, how many detections of network trojans, potential violations of corporate policy, attempted denial-of-service attacks, and so on).
You can further constrain the widget using a saved search, either one of the predefined searches delivered with your appliance or a custom search that you created. For example, constraining the first example (intrusion events using the Classification field, aggregated by Count) using the Dropped Events search tells you how many intrusion events of each type were dropped.
Custom Analysis Widget Preferences
The following table describes the preferences you can set in the Custom Analysis widget.
Different preferences appear depending on how you configure the widget. For example, a different set of preferences appears if you configure the widget to show relative occurrences of events (a bar graph) vs a graph over time (a line graph). Some preferences, such as Filter, only appear if you choose a specific table from which to display data.
Viewing Associated Events from the Custom Analysis Widget
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
From a Custom Analysis widget, you can invoke an event view (workflow) that provides detailed information about the events displayed in the widget. The events appear in the default workflow for that event type, constrained by the dashboard time range. This also changes the appropriate time window on the Firepower Management Center, depending on how many time windows you configured and on the event type.
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If you configure multiple time windows, then access health events from a Custom Analysis widget, the events appear in the default health events workflow, and the health monitoring time window changes to the dashboard time range.
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If you configure a single time window and then access any type of event from the Custom Analysis widget, the events appear in the default workflow for that event type, and the global time window changes to the dashboard time range.
) in the lower right corner of the widget to view all associated events, constrained by the widget preferences.The Disk Usage Widget
The Disk Usage widget displays the percentage of space used on the hard drive, based on disk usage category. It also indicates the percentage of space used on and capacity of each partition of the appliance’s hard drive. The Disk Usage widget displays the same information for the malware storage pack if installed in the device, or if the Firepower Management Center manages a device containing a malware storage pack. This widget appears by default on the Status tabs of the Default Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
The By Category stacked bar displays each disk usage category as a proportion of the total available disk space used. The following table describes the available categories.
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all files related to updates, such as rule updates and system updates |
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You can hover your pointer over a disk usage category in the By Category stacked bar to view the percentage of available disk space used by that category, the actual storage space on the disk, and the total disk space available for that category. Note that if you have a malware storage pack installed, the total disk space available for the Files category is the available disk space on the malware storage pack.
You can configure the widget to display only the By Category stacked bar, or you can show the stacked bar plus the admin (/), /Volume, and /boot partition usage, as well as the /var/storage partition if the malware storage pack is installed, by modifying the widget preferences.
The widget preferences also control how often the widget updates, as well as whether it displays the current disk usage or collected disk usage statistics over the dashboard time range.
The Interface Traffic Widget
The Interface Traffic widget shows the rate of traffic received (Rx) and transmitted (Tx) on the appliance’s management interface. For 7000 & 8000 Series devices, the widget also shows information on the sensing interfaces. The widget does not appear by default on any of the predefined dashboards.
Outbound (transmitted) traffic includes flow control packets. Because of this, passive sensing interfaces on 7000 & 8000 Series devices may show transmitted traffic; this is expected behavior. Devices with Malware licenses enabled periodically attempt to connect to the AMP cloud even if you have not configured dynamic analysis. Because of this, these devices show transmitted traffic; this is also expected behavior.
The widget preferences control how often the widget updates. On 7000 & 8000 Series devices, the preferences also control whether the widget displays the traffic rate for unused interfaces (by default, the widget only displays the traffic rate for active interfaces).
The Intrusion Events Widget
The Intrusion Events widget shows the intrusion events that occurred over the dashboard time range, organized by priority. This includes statistics on intrusion events with dropped packets and different impacts. This widget appears by default on the Intrusion Events tab of the Summary Dashboard.
In the widget preferences, you can choose:
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Event Flags to display separate graphs for events with dropped packets, would have dropped packets, or specific impacts. Choose All to display an additional graph for all intrusion events, regardless of impact or rule state.
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Vertical Scale to specify Linear (incremental) or Logarithmic (factor of ten) scale.
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Click a graph corresponding to dropped packets, to would have dropped packets, or to a specific impact to view intrusion events of that type.
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Click the graph corresponding to dropped events to view dropped events.
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Click the graph corresponding to would have dropped events to view would have dropped events.
The resulting event view is constrained by the dashboard time range; accessing intrusion events via the dashboard changes the events (or global) time window for the appliance. Note that packets in a passive deployment are not dropped, regardless of intrusion rule state or the inline drop behavior of the intrusion policy.
The Network Compliance Widget
The Network Compliance widget summarizes your hosts’ compliance with the white lists you configured. By default, the widget displays a pie chart that shows the number of hosts that are compliant, non-compliant, and that have not been evaluated, for all compliance white lists in active correlation policies. This widget appears by default on the Correlation tab of the Detailed Dashboard.
You can configure the widget to display network compliance either for all white lists or for a specific white list by modifying the widget preferences.
If you choose to display network compliance for all white lists, the widget considers a host to be non-compliant if it is not compliant with any white list in an active correlation policy.
You can also use the widget preferences to specify which of three different styles you want to use to display network compliance.
The Network Compliance style (the default) displays a pie chart that shows the number of hosts that are compliant, non-compliant, and that have not been evaluated. You can click the pie chart to view the host violation count, which lists the hosts that violate at least one white list.
The Network Compliance over Time (%) style displays a stacked area graph showing the relative proportion of hosts that are compliant, non-compliant, and that have not yet been evaluated, over the dashboard time range.
The Network Compliance over Time style displays a line graph that shows the number of hosts that are compliant, non-compliant, and that have not yet been evaluated, over the dashboard time range.
The preferences control how often the widget updates. You can check the Show Not Evaluated box to hide events which have not been evaluated.
The Product Licensing Widget
The Product Licensing widget shows the device and feature licenses currently installed on the Firepower Management Center. It also indicates the number of items licensed and the number of remaining licensed items allowed. It does not appear by default on any of the predefined dashboards.
The top section of the widget displays all device and feature licenses installed on the Firepower Management Center, including temporary licenses, while the Expiring Licenses section displays only temporary and expired licenses.
The bars in the widget background show the percentage of each type of license that is being used; you should read the bars from right to left. Expired licenses are marked with a strikethrough.
You can configure the widget to display either the features that are currently licensed, or all the features that you can license, by modifying the widget preferences. The preferences also control how often the widget updates.
You can click any of the license types to go to the License page of the local configuration and add or delete feature licenses.
The Product Updates Widget
The Product Updates widget provides you with a summary of the software currently installed on the appliance as well as information on updates that you have downloaded, but not yet installed. This widget appears by default on the Status tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
Because the widget uses scheduled tasks to determine the latest version, it displays Unknown until you configure a scheduled task to download, push or install updates.You can configure the widget to hide the latest versions by modifying the widget preferences. The preferences also control how often the widget updates.
The widget also provides you with links to pages where you can update the software. You can:
The RSS Feed Widget
The RSS Feed widget adds an RSS feed to a dashboard. By default, the widget shows a feed of Cisco security news. It appears by default on the Status tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
You can also configure the widget to display a preconfigured feed of company news, the Snort.org blog, or the Cisco Threat Research blog, or you can create a custom connection to any other RSS feed by specifying its URL in the widget preferences.
Feeds update every 24 hours (although you can manually update the feed), and the widget displays the last time the feed was updated based on the local time of the appliance. Keep in mind that the appliance must have access to the web site (for the two preconfigured feeds) or to any custom feed you configure.
When you configure the widget, you can also choose how many stories from the feed you want to show in the widget, as well as whether you want to show descriptions of the stories along with the headlines; keep in mind that not all RSS feeds use descriptions.
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to manually update the feed
The System Load Widget
The System Load widget shows the CPU usage (for each CPU), memory (RAM) usage, and system load (also called the load average, measured by the number of processes waiting to execute) on the appliance, both currently and over the dashboard time range. It appears by default on the Status tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
You can configure the widget to show or hide the load average by modifying the widget preferences. The preferences also control how often the widget updates.
The System Time Widget
The System Time widget shows the local system time, uptime, and boot time for the appliance. It appears by default on the Status tabs of the Detailed Dashboard and the Summary Dashboard.
You can configure the widget to hide the boot time by modifying the widget preferences. The preferences also control how often the widget synchronizes with the appliance’s clock.
The White List Events Widget
The White List Events widget shows the average events per second by priority, over the dashboard time range. It appears by default on the Correlation tab of the Default Dashboard.
You can configure the widget to display white list events of different priorities by modifying the widget preferences.
In the widget preferences, you can:
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choose one or more Priorities check boxes to display separate graphs for events of specific priorities, including events that do not have a priority
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choose Show All to display an additional graph for all white list events, regardless of priority
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choose Vertical Scale to choose Linear (incremental) or Logarithmic (factor of ten) scale
The preferences also control how often the widget updates.
You can click a graph to view white list events of a specific priority, or click the All graph to view all white list events. In either case, the events are constrained by the dashboard time range; accessing white list events via the dashboard changes the events (or global) time window for the Firepower Management Center.
Managing Dashboards
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
| Step 1 | Choose , and then choose the dashboard you want to modify from the menu. | ||
| Step 2 | Manage your dashboards:
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| Step 3 | Manage dashboard
tabs:
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| Step 4 | Manage dashboard
widgets:
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next to the dashboard you want to delete. If you delete your default dashboard,
you must define a new default or the appliance prompts you to choose a
dashboard every time you attempt to view a dashboard.
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in the top right corner of the tab, and confirm by clicking
Adding a Dashboard Tab
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
| Step 1 | View the dashboard you want to modify; see Viewing Dashboards. |
| Step 2 | Click the add
icon ( )
next to the last existing tab.
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| Step 3 | Enter a name for the tab. |
| Step 4 | Click OK. |
Adding Widgets to a Dashboard
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
Each tab can display one or more widgets in a three-column layout. When adding a widget to a dashboard, you choose the tab to which you want to add the widget. The system automatically adds it to the column with the fewest widgets. If all columns have an equal number of widgets, the new widget is added to the leftmost column. You can add a maximum of 15 widgets to a dashboard tab.
Tip | After you add widgets, you can move them to any location on the tab. You cannot, however, move widgets from tab to tab. |
The dashboard widgets you can view depend on the type of appliance you are using, your user role, and your current domain (in a multidomain deployment). Keep in mind that because not all user roles have access to all dashboard widgets, users with fewer permissions viewing a dashboard created by a user with more permissions may not be able to use all of the widgets on the dashboard. Although the unauthorized widgets still appear on the dashboard, they are disabled.
| Step 1 | View the dashboard where you want to add a widget; see Viewing Dashboards. | ||
| Step 2 | Click the tab where you want to add the widget. | ||
| Step 3 | Click Add Widgets. You can view the widgets in each category by clicking on the category name, or you can view all widgets by clicking All Categories. | ||
| Step 4 | Click
Add next to the widgets you want to add. The Add
Widgets page indicates how many widgets of each type are on the tab, including
the widget you want to add.
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| Step 5 | When you are finished adding widgets, click Done to return to the dashboard. |
What to Do Next
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If you added a Custom Analysis widget, configure the widget preferences; see Configuring Widget Preferences.
Configuring Widget Preferences
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
Each widget has a set of preferences that determines its behavior.
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to hide the preferences section.
Creating Custom Dashboards
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
Tip | Instead of creating a new dashboard, you can export a dashboard from another appliance, then import it onto your appliance. You can then edit the imported dashboard to suit your needs. |
| Step 1 | Choose . |
| Step 2 | Click Create Dashboard. |
| Step 3 | Modify the custom dashboard options as described in Custom Dashboard Options. |
| Step 4 | Click Save. |
Custom Dashboard Options
The table below describes options you can use when creating or editing custom dashboards.
Customizing the Widget Display
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
You can minimize and maximize widgets, as well as rearrange the widgets on a tab.
| Step 1 | View a dashboard; see Viewing Dashboards. | ||
| Step 2 | Customize the
widget display:
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)
or maximize icon (
)
in a widget’s title bar.
Editing Dashboards Options
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
| Step 1 | View the dashboard you want to edit; see Viewing Dashboards. |
| Step 2 | Click the edit
icon ( )
next to the dashboard you want to modify.
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| Step 3 | Change the options as described in Custom Dashboard Options. |
| Step 4 | Click Save. |
Modifying Dashboard Time Settings
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
You can change the time range to reflect a period as short as the last hour (the default) or as long as the last year. When you change the time range, the widgets that can be constrained by time automatically update to reflect the new time range.
Note that not all widgets can be constrained by time. For example, the dashboard time range has no effect on the Appliance Information widget, which provides information that includes the appliance name, model, and current version of the Firepower System software.
Keep in mind that for enterprise deployments of the Firepower System, changing the time range to a long period may not be useful for widgets like the Custom Analysis widget, depending on how often newer events replace older events.
You can also pause a dashboard, which allows you to examine the data provided by the widgets without the display changing and interrupting your analysis. Pausing a dashboard has the following effects:
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Individual widgets stop updating, regardless of any Update Every widget preference.
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Dashboard tabs stop cycling, regardless of the Cycle Tabs Every setting in the dashboard properties.
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Dashboard pages stop refreshing, regardless of the Refresh Page Every setting in the dashboard properties.
When you are finished with your analysis, you can unpause the dashboard. Unpausing the dashboard causes all appropriate widgets on the page to update to reflect the current time range. In addition, dashboard tabs resume cycling and the dashboard page resumes refreshing according to the settings you specified in the dashboard properties.
If you experience connectivity problems or other issues that interrupt the flow of system information to the dashboard, the dashboard automatically pauses and an error notice appears until the problem is resolved.
Note | Your session normally logs you out after 1 hour of inactivity (or another configured interval), regardless of whether the dashboard is paused. If you plan to passively monitor the dashboard for long periods of time, consider exempting some users from session timeout, or changing the system timeout settings. |
| Step 1 | View the dashboard where you want to add a widget; see Viewing Dashboards. |
| Step 2 | Optionally, to change the dashboard time range, choose a time range from the Show the Last drop-down list. |
| Step 3 | Optionally, pause or unpause the dashboard on the time range
control, using the pause ( )
or play icon ( ).
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Renaming a Dashboard Tab
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
| Step 1 | View the dashboard you want to modify; see Viewing Dashboards. |
| Step 2 | Click the tab title you want to rename. |
| Step 3 | Type a name for the tab. |
| Step 4 | Click OK. |
Viewing Dashboards
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Smart License |
Classic License |
Supported Devices |
Supported Domains |
Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Any |
Any |
Any |
Any |
Admin/Any Security Analyst/Maint |
By default, the home page for your appliance displays the default dashboard. If you do not have a default dashboard defined, the home page shows the Dashboard Management page, where you can choose a dashboard to view.
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