Paglo dashboards

Paglo dashboards spotlight the issues most vital to monitor. Customize your dashboards to show alerts, statistics, and searches that you've saved, or find them from the Paglo user community. By arranging a dashboard to display the top-priority information at a glance, you can create a virtual NOC (Network Operation Center) that keeps this data close at hand. And as the Crawler continues to report fresh data, the dashboard is updated. You can also add applications such as the Paglo Inventory or Paglo Alert applications as panels directly to your dashboard

Viewing a dashboard

To open your Dashboard page:

On the left-hand navigation box on any page of your Paglo Web account, click the Dashboard button.
To see your available Dashboards, do one of the following:
- Click the Dashboard arrow to open the list of available Dashboards.
- To the right of the current Dashboard name, click the Actions down arrow, and then click Switch to Dashboard.
Select a Dashboard from either list.
From there, you can take the following actions:

Posting searches to dashboards

You can customize the Dashboard to display the most important alerts, statistics, and searches that you've saved, or found from the Paglo user community.

To add a saved search to your Dashboard, do one of the following:

Click the Dashboard Actions arrow, and then click Add Saved Search.

Click the Search down arrow, and then click Add to Dashboard.

Adding applications

You can add powerful Paglo-based applications such as the Paglo Inventory or Paglo Alert applications as panels directly to your dashboard:

To add an application to your dashboard:

Click Dashboard Actions => Add Application.
From the pull-down list of available applications, select an application.

You can also add valuable dashboard share-its from the Paglo community that address a specific area, such as server monitoring: Windows System Information in Depth:

Or network management: Top Company Network Panels:

Switching dashboards

To switch dashboards, or rearrange a dashboard:

Click Dashboard Actions => Switch Dashboards.
From the pull-down list of available dashboards, select a dashboard.
Another dashboard is displayed. You can rearrange the tables and charts like this:

Click the top bar of the chart or table pane to grab it.
Drag and drop the pane in a new location.

Creating new dashboards

To add a new dashboard:

Click Dashboard Actions => Create New Dashboard.
Double-click the New Dashboard title to name it, and then click OK.
To populate the new dashboard, see Add saved searches.

Deleting dashboards

To delete a dashboard:

Switch to the dashboard that you want to remove.
Click Dashboard Actions => Delete This Dashboard.
In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.

Sharing dashboards

To make a dashboard available to other users:

Switch to the dashboard that you want to share.
Click Dashboard Actions => Share This Dashboard.

Managing dashboards

As your Paglo Crawler scans your network, it sends up fresh data which is reflected in the searches posted to your dashboards. To force any single element, such as a chart or table on the dashboard, click the green Refresh button to force an Update.

To manage your dashboard panels further:

Dragging panels between dashboards

You can switch copies of dashboard panels between multiple dashboards by simply dragging the panel over the tab of the closed dashboard.

To drag copies of panels from one dashboard to another:

Open the source dashboard, and click the panel that you want to drag.
Drag the panel over the tab of the destination dashboard, until that tab turns red:

Then let go. The panel returns to its original place on the source dashboard, and a copy appears on the destination dashboard:

Renaming dashboard panels

You can rename dashboard panels directly from the dashboard itself by clicking the "I" button on the upper right corner of each dashboard panel. No need to create a whole new panel.

To rename a dashboard panel:

On an open dashboard, click the "I" button on the upper right corner of the panel that you want to rename.
In the Modify Panel dialog box, edit the title:

Click Save.

Updating dashboard panels

You can edit your dashboard and update it, directly from the dashboard itself. You can change the underlying query and charting of a dashboard panel without having to create a new panel, with a click of the Plus button on the lower right corner of each dashboard panel.

To edit dashboard panels:

Open the dashboard, and click the white Plus button on the panel that you want to modify.
On the raw results page, edit the query itself or modify the chart properties.
Click the Search execute button and run the query to obtain new results.
Click Update Dashboard.

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