5.1 Managing Dashboard

After you login into the Advanced Authentication Administration console, the Dashboard is displayed. Dashboard contains widgets that you can add or customize to view a graphical representation of data. The information in the Dashboard helps administrators to track memory utilization, tenant information, successful or failed logins, and so forth.

You can view the Dashboard for all the tenants or specific tenants.

You can perform the following to manage the Dashboard:

5.1.1 Adding Widgets

To add widgets, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Add widget in the top-right corner of the Dashboard screen.

  2. Select the widget from the list that you want to add to the dashboard.

  3. Specify the appropriate details for the widget in the Add Widget screen.

  4. Click OK.

You can add the following types of widgets:

Pie Chart

This widget displays the information collected on a specific parameter and represents information in the Pie chart format. You can also sort the parameter is ascending and descending order.

Stacked Chart

This widget displays a stacked bar chart that classifies and compares different categories of Field 1 and Field 2 parameters to track the maximum and minimum number of logons. X-axis represents categories of the Field 2 parameter. Y-axis represents logon count. Segments in each vertical bar represents categories of Field 1 parameter. Different colors are used to depict different categories and label for each category is displayed in upper-right corner of the widget.

Activity Stream

This widget displays information about user, tenant, chain, method used for authentication, and the result.

Enroll Activity Stream

This widget displays information about enrolled users: last log on time, tenant, user, method used for authentication, and event type.

Users

This widget displays information about the enrolled users: tenant name, user name, enrollment status and last log on time.

Authenticators

This widget displays information about the enrolled authenticators: tenant name, user name, event category, method, comment and owner of the account.

Licenses

This widget displays information about the license id, license validity dates (such as From and To dates), license expire status and license warnings (regarding license expiry, exceed in user count)

Event Count Line Chart

This widget tracks and displays logon count of all events in the appliance. The X-axis (horizontal) represents time and Y-axis (vertical) represents logon count. Each data point on the chart represents numbers of user logged on at a specific time. All the data points are plotted and connected with a line to track the maximum and minimum number of logons.

Events Count Line Chart Grouped by Field

This widget tracks and displays logon count of specific parameter. The X-axis (horizontal) represents time and Y-axis (vertical) represents logon count. Data points of different colors represent specific category of the selected parameter. The label for each category is displayed in upper-right corner of the widget. All the data points are plotted and connected with a line to track the maximum and minimum number of logons.

Distinct Events Count Line Chart

This widget tracks and displays distinct count of all categories in the selected parameter (Distinct values by field). X-axis (horizontal) represents time and Y-axis (vertical) represents distinct logon count. Each data point on the chart represents unique logon count at a specific time. All the data points are plotted and connected with a line to track the maximum and minimum number of distinct logons.

For example: If the Distinct events count line chart widget is customized as follows:

  • Interval set to 1 hour.

  • Distinct values by field is set to User name.

The widget displays number of unique users logged in to all events for the time duration of 1 hour.

Distinct Events Count Line Chart Grouped by Field

This widget displays and classifies distinct logon count of each event. The X-axis (horizontal) represents time and Y-axis (vertical) represents distinct logon count. Each data point on the chart represents unique logon count of particular event at a specific time. All the data points are plotted and connected with a line to track the maximum and minimum number of distinct logons to particular event.

5.1.2 Customizing Dashboard

You can customize the Dashboard by moving the widgets or deleting the unused widgets.

To move the widgets, click on the widget and the drag icon appears. You can then drag and drop the widget to the desired location of the Dashboard.

To delete unused widgets, click Delete on the top of each widget.

After customizing the dashboard, click Save Dashboard on the upper-right corner of the Dashboard screen.

5.1.3 Updating Dashboard to View Real Time or Historical Data

You can update Dashboard to view the data based on the time interval or historical data.

Viewing Dashboard based on Time Interval

To view records based on real time interval, perform the following steps:

  1. Set Relative time interval to ON in the Dashboard section.

  2. Select the time interval from Relative interval. By default, time interval is set to Last 15 minutes.

  3. Click Update.

Viewing Dashboard for Previous Records

To view previous records, perform the following steps:

  1. Set Relative time interval to OFF in the Dashboard section.

  2. Select the Date range.

  3. Click Update.

5.1.4 Customizing the Default Widgets

To customize the widget, click Edit and select the appropriate filters. You can edit the widget title and customize the display based on the following filter factors:

  • Event type: Select preferred event type. Options available are All logon events, Failed logon events and Successful logon events.

  • Interval: Select Time interval.

  • Size: Select number of records.

  • Sort: Select sorting order. Options available are ascending or descending order.

  • Field: Select the parameter based on which the data must be collected to display on the widget. Options available are Event Name, Chain Name, Method Name, Endpoint Name and so on.

  • Users: Select specific user.

  • Events: Select specific event.

  • Chains: Select specific chain.

Following are the default widgets when you login. You can edit these widgets according to your need:

Server Metrics

This widget displays statistics about user’s login, popularity and so on. The following section defines each server metric:

  • All Logons: Total number of logins.

  • Failed Login: Total number of failed logins by the users.

  • Succeeded Login: Total number of successful logins by the users.

  • Active Users Count: The number of active users.

  • Most Popular User: The user that has used the console most.

  • Most Popular Event: The event that users have used the most.

  • Most Popular Repo: The repository that users have used the most.

  • CPU Usage Stats: The average percentage of CPU usage.

CPU and Memory Usage Per Server

These widgets display information about percentage of CPU and memory usage of server for the set time interval. These widgets display average CPU and memory usage.

Tenants

This widget displays information about the tenants and their login.

Authentications

This widget displays the total logon count for time interval.

Logons Per Result

This widget displays two lines: one for successful logons and one for failed logons.

Total Users

This widget displays the total number of logged in users for time interval.

Total Users Per Event

This widget displays the total number of logged in users for each event.

Activity Stream

This widget displays information about user, tenant, chain, method used for authentication, and the result.

Successful/Failed Logons

This widget displays information about the successful or failed users login.

Top Events With Successful Logon Per Chain

This widget displays the top events based on the successful logon for each chain.

Top Events With Failed Logon Per Method

This widget displays the top events based on the failed logon for each chain.

Top 10 Events

This widget displays the top ten events the user has performed.

Top 10 chains With Successful Result

This widget displays the top ten chains the user has successfully authenticated with.

Top 10 Servers

This widget displays the top ten servers the user has used to authenticate.

Top 10 Tenants

This widget displays the top ten tenants.

Top 10 Repositories

This widget displays the top ten repositories.

Top 5 Events for Logons

This widget displays the top five events for login.

Top 5 Users for Logons

This widget displays the top five users for login.

Top 10 Users With Failed Logon

This widget displays the top ten users who have failed in the login attempt.

Top 10 Users

This widget displays the top ten users.

Top 10 Events

This widget displays the top ten events.

Top 10 Methods With Failed Result

This widget displays the top ten methods with failed authentication results.

5.1.5 Exporting Widgets

When you export a widget, Advanced Authentication creates a copy of the selected widget in the Reports section. You must navigate to Reports page to download the exported file on your local drive.

To export a widget, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the preferred widget on the Dashboard page.

  2. Click Export and select preferred format. Formats available are:

    • .csv

    • .json

  3. Click Reports.

  4. Click the exported file name in the Exported reports section, to download on the local drive.