Dashboards

Level 1

Dashboards

Dashboards are designed to provide information and statistics at a glance. There are several pages listed under the Dashboards section and they are fully customizable. You can add and delete pages as well as re-arrange them to fit your liking.

Dashboard control Panel

Within the dashboard control panel is where you would add new dashboard pages, delete existing dashboards or re-arrange the order the dashboards are viewed. You can also set the default dashboard page that you want to see when logging into the GWAVA Management console or when clicking the home button within the GWAVA Management console.

Level 2

Dashboards

Dashboards are designed to provide information and statistics at a glance. There are several pages listed under the Dashboards section and they are fully customizable. You can add and delete pages as well as re-arrange them to fit your liking.

Each dashboard page can hold its own set of information. This information is provided in the user interface by 'gadgets'. GWAVA will come pre-installed with a few dashboards that each have a few gadgets. The gadgets that come installed by default can be deleted or altered to fit the information needed. The gadgets can also be moved around within the dashboard to fit the layout that works best for the Administrators.

Gadgets that are on the dashboard pages gather their information from a Statistics Database that is stored within the program directories of GWAVA. Each time a message comes in there are statistics gathered on the message. All the way from the initial start of the email process to the end of the email process. Statistics are gathered and written for such things as domain names, triggers that fired for SPAM or other specific settings, Virus alert statistics, and much more. With all this information being gathered and stored it is not out of character to see the statistics database get rather large in size. GWAVA is designed to handle lots of information for the statistics database but like any other database and working program it can get cluttered. If gadgets or dashboards are not being used they should be deleted. They can always be added back in later.

Dashboard Control Panel

Within the dashboard control panel is where you would add new dashboard pages, delete existing dashboards or re-arrange the order the dashboards are viewed. You can also set the default dashboard page that you want to see when logging into the GWAVA Management console or when clicking the home button within the GWAVA Management console

By Default the GWAVA Management Console will inclued three pre built dashboards. These dashboards are:

  Welcome - Includes gadgets that show general information about the GWAVA product, news and build updates, etc
  Status  
       Alerts - Alerts that have been raised concerning the operation of the GWAVA product.
       Program Status - Will give you information on each module pertaining to the process of 
       GWAVA. Tells you if the module is running or stopped.
       Most Recent Virus - Tells you what virus(s) have been detected by GWAVA.
  Statistics - Multiple graphs that show messages processed, threat distribution and inbound/outbound gauges.

Hands On

Adding gadgets to the Dashboard

1.) Log in to the GWAVA Management Console. (http://<ip_address>:49282)

    For the purpose of this hands on training please use  http://gwava5demo.gwava.com:49282/public/login.shtml
    Username = guest
    Password = password

2.) The Home Pages menu section should be expanded by default but if it is not click on the home pages section to bring down the sub menu

3.) Click on the Dasboards link in the home pages sub menu.

4.) Click on one of the default dashboard or any dashboard you have created. For this hands on we will use the "Status" dashboard.

5.) At the top of the dashboard page right in the center you will see a white tab. Click this and it will bring down a drop down box.

6.) Select the criteria for the new gadget. From left to right you will choose the layout of the gadget first, table, graph, etc. After you add The layout you will then choose the information that will be displayed on the gadget, such as most active senders, program status, etc. For this exercise go ahead and select the following (from left to right): Table | Most active sending IP addresses | pie chart | 1 | days.

7.) After you have the criteria selected click the green "plus" sign button on the right of the criteria selection boxes

8.) Move and resize the gadget to fit your liking.

9.) Click the 'save' button in the top right of the screen.