Using Built in and Custom Dashboards

Open built-in dashboards, add views, and drag in and arrange reports critical for operational monitoring, accounting, troubleshooting, and forensics tasks.

Step 1: Envision the target scenario

Before you choose a built-in dashboard to begin from:

Service Level Management

Wireless

Configuration Management

Traffic Analysis

Inventory

Virtualization

Step 2: Choose and open a dashboard

From the analyze menu (ANALYZE menu > Dashboards) on the main toolbar:

  1. Choose a dashboard as a starting point. (Home Dashboard, is a good place to start.)
  2. Click the 'add view' button () to create a new tabbed panel that you can add reports to.

Step 3: Create and customize views

Open and search the Add Reports palette and 'drag in' any of the reports into the current or an existing view.

Step 4: Share, schedule, and collaborate

WhatsUp Gold provides expert features and functionality that enable you share with internal and external stakeholders periodically, on-demand, or whenever you feel this collaboration is appropriate:

Note: For scheduled reports, it is best practice to create an additional WhatsUp Gold user to ensure that the scheduled export and email of report data maintains consistent settings, graphing modes, and format. WhatsUp Gold Report Settings WUG17.0N-SP2-REPORTS-SETTINGS-IMG (settings for graphing, top n, and thresholding, for example) persist based on the report instance, the current device selected, and the WhatsUp Gold login you use.

Tip: Spread related/auxiliary views across dedicated displays

You can customize views that help your team anticipate, track, and react quickly to critical incidents.

For example, you can create a dashboards that:

In This Section

Home Dashboard

Device Status

Alert Center

Application Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis Dashboards

Predictive Trending Report

Virtual Monitoring

Traffic Overview

Wireless Monitoring

Unclassified Traffic

TOP 10

Rogues Dashboard

Quarterly Availability Summary