SolarWinds Dashboards Details
Dashboards are the visual interfaces that present to us the status overview of all the critical elements that are monitored by the network management system (NMS). Without an effective and user-friendly dashboard to display monitoring results, an NMS will not fully deliver on its promise.
Here are some top reasons on why effective dashboards are vital in an NMS:
- A network admin needs to address issues immediately and a dashboard must be able to display actual data in real-time in easily conceivable formats.
- Dashboards must be easily customizable to allow the network
- administrator to create tailor- made views to present data.
- The extent of presenting data may vary between various user groups in an organization. Having a flexible filtering mechanism to choose display data for senior executives, business units or compliance will make reports more meaningful.
- Allowing the network administrator to create different login accounts and issue tractable access rights will simplify management efforts.
- To be able to provide adept alerting and detailed reporting capabilities, the dashboard must support a deep-dive approach to reach the very root of the network problem and show the cause of failure of an event.
- Navigation will be a key aspect of having a dashboard put to detailed use. Navigation between screens, nodes, maps, views, etc. should be easy to execute.
- Integration with other products, if there may arise a need to combine the monitoring view with compatible software or appliances, can be a sought out feature for network and system administrators.
- Enabling the possibility to interact with a networking community to quickly access discussions, ideas, suggestions and subject matter expertise will always be a valuable add-on.
- Dashboards are the foundation on which the integral network monitoring features of alerts and reporting are built. To provide the ultimate network management dashboard is to complement the alerting and reporting features with high proficiency.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor provides all of the capabilities outlined above. With customization and proper planning, you could be using the ultimate Network Management Dashboard to put your monitoring worries behind and relax in your NOC while watching over your entire network infrastructure on a single pane of glass. Tobias International Engineers will guide you step by step throughout the entire process to ensure that the end result is efficient and your dashboard has relevant information.
