The Dashboard

The AirDefense Dashboard is designed to give you quick visualization of your network.

Note

You must have the latest version of Flash installed in order to view the Dashboard. If you do not, you will be prompted to install the latest Flash.

ADSP provides five default views involving the most important aspects of your network. Each view is fully customizable where you can add any one of the already defined dashboard components. The default views are:

• General - Displays general information about your network using some components of the other three views.

• Security - Displays security information about your network such as:

  • Rogue Wireless Access
  • Top Wireless Extrusions by Count
  • Top Wireless Exploits by Count
  • Policy Compliance
  • Security Threat by Tree Level
  • Security Threat by Device
  • Top Wireless Vulnerability by Count.

• Infrastructure - Displays infrastructure information such as:

  • Infrastructure Status
  • Last 5 Infrastructure Alarms
  • Device Breakdown by Model
  • Top Infrastructure Criticalities
  • Wireless Client Associations by WLAN
  • Radio Channel Breakdown.

• Performance - Displays performance information such as:

  • Performance Threat by Tree Level
  • Performance Threat by Device.

• Network - Displays network information to give you a picture quick glance of your network utilizing the following components:

  • Devices by Configuration
  • Appliance Status
  • Wireless IPS Availability
  • BSSs by Last Seen
  • Wireless Clients by Last Seen.

In addition to the default views, there are three user views which are fully customizable. The user definable views are initially empty, allowing you to add any of the dashboard components to create a mixture important to you.

You can customize the custom views or the default views by selecting a view from the View drop-down menu, then dragging and dropping components located on the left side of the window.

Double-clicking on an individual component of any view accesses the related tab of that component. For example, if you double-click on APs of the Infrastructure Overview component, the Network tab is accessed displaying only APs.

See the Dashboard Components topic for a description of all the available components.

You can hide dashboard components by clicking Hide Dashboard Components bar .

You can show (un-hide) dashboard components by clicking the i bar .