Dashboard

This chapter contains the following sections:

About the Monitoring Dashboard

The Dashboard page in the Cisco Business Dashboard Lite 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.

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.

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.