Built-in dashboard

About this article

There are two kinds of dashboards in Miradore Management Suite: the built-in dashboards that come with the product, and the custom-made dashboards created by administrators.

This article introduces the built-in, read-only dashboards of Miradore Management Suite. If you want to learn how to create custom dashboards, please read Creating dashboards and Computer health monitoring.

About dashboards

Dashboards provide information about your environment in form of easy-to-understand visual graphs and tables. Each dashboard has a set of quick, easy to understand parameters of the environment displayed in graphical form.

Location of built-in dashboards

You can find the built-in Miradore dashboards through the Dashboard selector that is located in the top pane of Miradore user interface (picture below).

Default dashboard

Home dashboard is shown to users as a first thing when they log in to Miradore Management Suite. Also, when user clicks the Home button in the top pane, he or she is taken to the default Home dashboard.

Miradore's built-in Main dashboard is the default dashboard for all users, but that setting can be overridden. For instructions, please read Setting the default dashboard for all users.

Built-in dashboards

The table below presents all different dashboards available in Miradore.

Dashboard name	Description
Main	Main dashboard consists of three tables that include the most commonly needed information. The main dashboard is also the starting page of Miradore and it can be loaded by clicking the "Main" link on the top pane. Quality index reports table contains the top priority quality index reports that can be used for detecting problems in environment quality. The News table shows the latest news which typically are notifications of maintenance work, new software packages etc. The Assets by status table gives an overview over assets by displaying all managed assets by status and hardware model.
Assets	Assets dashboard contains seven tables, which are listed and described below: The Assets by status table gives an overview over assets by displaying all managed assets by status and hardware model. Active assets by month table displays the active assets in each month by hardware category. With this table you can also follow the development in total amount of active assets. Operating systems by device role table displays the amount of used operating systems by device role. You can see the list of assets that are using the operating system,by clicking the magnifying glass icon. Operating systems by month displays amounts of used operating systems by manufacturer. By clicking the chart icon, you can also view historical reports of operating system usage per day, week, or month. Assets requiring a license table displays the peak number of Miradore license subscriptions in different hardware categories during each month. Additionally, Current column shows the current amount of Miradore license subscriptions. If you click the total row of Current column, you are able to see a general Miradore license subscriptions report. On the other hand, if you click the current amount of Miradore license subscriptions from some hardware category, you are able to see more specific data of the license subscriptions in that hardware category. Assets requiring a software catalog license table shows the demand of software catalog licenses in different hardware categories by month. The table is not shown if software catalog feature is disabled. Read more about the licensing of Miradore and the software catalog from Miradore license page. Assets requiring a patch management license table shows the demand of patch management licenses in different hardware categories by month. The table is not shown in patch management feature is disabled. Read more about the licensing of Miradore from Miradore license page.
Installations	Installations dashboard provides statistical information of initial installations and package installations. Initial installations chart illustrates the amount of initial installations per each day on last month. Package installations chart illustrates the amount of package installation per each day on last month Initial installations by OS by month table displays the amounts of initial installations per month by operating system. By clicking the chart icon, you can see a bar graph that illustrates the installations. Statistics table shows numeric statistics of package installations, initial installations, and group distributions.
Quality	Quality dashboard outlines the environment's quality by providing the most commonly needed quality index reports and up-to-date status of inventory information. Quality index reports describe the health of the environment. By clicking the chart icon, you can see a bar graph that demonstrates the environment quality in relative to quality index indicators. You can also click the report name to see Quality index reports. See Quality index indicators for descriptions.