Customizing the Dashboard
The Dashboard displays a collection of widgets that show metrics of interest for your account. Most widgets link to a related report.
There are up to three different views of each widget: Summary, Standard, and Detailed, with each view showing progressively more detailed information.
Widgets display information for active devices that have checked in. If a device has yet to check in, its data is in a pending state. A widget categorizes that data as Pending or No Data.
The information that is displayed in the widgets is updated only when you reload the page or refresh the view of a widget.
To view the Dashboard, click on the navigation bar. You can also click the Absolute logo to jump to the Dashboard.
To view data in the Device Usage widget, your user role needs to be granted View permissions for Dashboard - Security. All default Administrator roles and the Security Power User role are granted this permission.
To view data in all other widgets, your user role needs to be granted View permissions for Dashboard - Inventory.
You can add or remove widgets from the Dashboard. You can also reposition widgets by dragging them to the location of your choice. The view and position of the widget is saved.
Although you can display an unlimited number of widgets, note that the dashboard may take longer to load with more than 20 widgets.
From the Settings icon in the top-right corner of each widget, you can do the following:
- Click to refresh the data in a widget.
- Toggle between Summary, Standard, and Detailed views.
- Remove the widget from the Dashboard.
- Open the widget's Advanced Settings to customize its data.
Widgets
You can work with the widgets in the following ways:
- Hover over an element, such as a percentage, column, bar, or doughnut chart section, to show additional information in a tooltip.
Example Hover over the Windows percentage in the Operating Systems widget to view the total number of Windows devices and the total number of devices (for example, 14888 of 18500 Windows).
- If a widget shows a Report on <#> Devices link, click the link to go to the widget's respective report. The report is filtered based on the data currently displayed in the widget. The report keeps these filters until you edit them directly or log out of the console. If desired, you can save the filtered view as a user-defined report.
- In Summary view, you can click a section of the doughnut chart to go to a filtered view of the widget's respective report. If desired, you can save the filtered view as a user-defined report.
Example Click the Unprotected section in the Anti-Malware widget. The Anti-Malware report opens to show all devices for which an anti-malware application was not detected.
- In Standard view, you can:
- Click a section of the doughnut chart to filter the widget. To return to the previous view, click the section again.
- Click a bar to go to a filtered view of the widget's respective report. If desired, you can save the filtered view as a user-defined report.
Example Click the Lightly Used bar in the Device Usage widget. The Device Usage report opens to show all devices with 1 to 4 hours of average daily usage over the past 30 days.
- In Detailed view, you can:
- Click a percentage to filter the chart. To return to the previous view, click the percentage again.
Example Click the Windows percentage in the Operating Systems widget. The chart refreshes to show a column for each Windows operating system that was detected most often.
- Click a column, or a section of a column, to go to a filtered view of the widget's respective report. If desired, you can save the filtered view as a user-defined report.
Example Click the None column in the Encryption Status widget. The Full-Disk Encryption Status report opens to show all devices without a detected full-disk encryption product.
- Click a percentage to filter the chart. To return to the previous view, click the percentage again.
You can change the title of a widget and add filters to customize its data. To add your customizations, click the widget's icon and click Advanced Settings.
Title
To change the title of the widget, enter a new Title and click Save Changes.
Filters
NOTE Not all filters are applicable to all widgets.
To report on only those devices with an activated policy:
- Select the Policy is enabled check box. The Total number of filtered out devices field refreshes to show the effect of the updated filter.
- Click Save Changes.
To change the time frame of the displayed data:
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Select the Last connected time is within last check box.
For the Application Resilience widget, select the Last App Resilience scan is within last check box.
- Select the time frame. Options are: 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days. For example, to include only those devices that have checked in to the Absolute Monitoring Center within the last 2 months, select 60 Days. The Total number of filtered out devices field refreshes to show the effect of the updated filter.
- Click Save Changes.
To exclude the data for some devices:
- Select the Not in these groups checkbox.
- Select one or more device groups to exclude. The Total number of filtered out devices field refreshes to show the effect of the updated filter.
- Click Save Changes.
You can add widgets or multiple instances of the same widget to the Dashboard.
NOTE Although you can display an unlimited number of widgets, the dashboard may take longer to load when displaying more than 20.
To add one or more widgets to the Dashboard:
- On the quick access toolbar, click Add Widgets. The Add New Widget dialog opens.
- [Optional] To see only the widgets that are currently not displayed on the Dashboard, select the List only widgets not in the dashboard check box.
- [Optional] In the search field, enter all or part of a keyword. The widgets that fit your criteria appear in the list.
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Do one of the following:
- To select one widget, click the widget that you want to add.
- To select more than one widget, press Ctrl and click the widgets that you want to add.
- Click Add Widget.
The widgets that you added are displayed in their default view at the bottom of the Dashboard.
You can remove one widget at a time from the Dashboard.
To remove a widget from the Dashboard:
- In the top-right corner of the widget that you want to remove, click > Remove Widget. The Remove a widget dialog opens.
- Click Remove.
The widget that you removed no longer appears on the Dashboard.
The following widgets are available on the Dashboard: