The Dashboard leverages compliance data collected from Secure Configuration Manager policy templates to allow you to easily identify the compliance of your environment. In order to provide the most appropriate view of your environment for your stakeholders, the Dashboard displays compliance data based on the Secure Configuration Manager managed groups and scoring types you want each user role to see.
In the Secure Configuration Manager console, a managed group is a view that presents endpoints organized into logical groups. You can create user-defined groups to provide a view of your company’s assets, such as organizational hierarchy, physical location of computers, or type of service the computers perform.
You must define managed groups in Secure Configuration Manager before you start using the Dashboard.
For more information about creating managed groups, see the NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager User Guide.
A role is a set of permissions that controls access to specific Secure Configuration Manager features. Assigning Secure Configuration Manager console users to roles allows you to easily maintain and update permissions while consistently enforcing the same level of security across your organization.
The same roles are applicable in the Dashboard too. Secure Configuration Manager users can view all of the charts in the Dashboard, but the data populated in the charts depends on the user’s role and associated permissions.
For more information about Secure Configuration Manager roles, see the NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager User Guide.
The charts in the Dashboard are categorized into four logical groups, and these are put together in the following four dashboards. Click the Load Saved Dashboard icon on the menu bar to navigate to any of these dashboards.
This is the default dashboard displayed when you log in to the Dashboard. This dashboard is used to visualize the results of template runs over various endpoints/managed groups. This dashboard provides an overview of the compliance, risk status, and distribution of assets, endpoints, and groups added or created in Secure Configuration Manager.
This dashboard is used to visualize the important compliance related information of your network. When a template is run over any endpoint, it can result in “In Compliance”, “Out of Compliance”, or “Unknown Compliance”.
This dashboard is used to visualize the check level information of the network. When the check is run on an endpoint it can either result in “Passed”, “Failed”, or “Excepted”.
This dashboard is used to visualize the important risk related information of your network. When a template is run on any endpoint, it can result in “Low Risk”, “Medium Risk”, “High Risk”, or “Unknown Risk”.
For more information about the charts available in each of these dashboards, see Section A.0, Charts in the Dashboard.
You can perform the following tasks using the options in the menu bar, to customize the Dashboard:
If you need your own, customized dashboard apart from the four dashboards provided, click the New Dashboard icon to create it. When you click this icon, an empty dashboard is displayed. In this dashboard, you can add the charts based on your requirement.
You can add charts to your dashboard by clicking the Add Visualization icon.
If you have created you own dashboard, you can save it by clicking the Save Dashboard icon, and providing a name of your dashboard.
Select Store time with dashboard while saving the dashboard to change the time filter for the dashboard to the currently applied time filter.
You can load any default or saved dashboard by clicking the Load Saved Dashboard icon and selecting the dashboard you want to load.
You can update the dashboard to use the dark theme by clicking the Options icon and then selecting the Use dark theme option.
NOTE:The Secure Configuration Manager Dashboard leverages Kibana, a browser-based analytics and search dashboard, that helps you to visualize and analyze data. Apart from the customizing functionality that the Dashboard offers, you can also use the Kibana functionality to customize the Dashboard. For more information, see the Kibana documentation.