Platform Dashboard Overview
The Platform dashboard provides a single page snapshot of the current status of your network. The Platform dashboard appears when you click the Platform application icon from Application Chooser or switch to it from the Application Switcher. Figure 1 shows an example of a typical system dashboard.
Figure 1: Platform Dashboard
The sections that follow describe the parts of the Platform Dashboard.
Platform Workspaces
Table 1: Workspace Icons
Icon | Workspace Name | Task |
|---|---|---|
 | Devices | Manage devices, including adding, discovering, importing, and updating them. |
 | Jobs | Monitor the progress of ongoing jobs. |
 | Users | Add, manage, and delete users. |
 | Administration | Add network nodes, backup your database, or troubleshoot. |
Platform Dashboard Gadgets
The Platform dashboard contains items of system information known as gadgets. These gadgets include a series of graphs and charts. For information about the data shown in the gadgets, see Understanding Overall System Condition and Fabric Load.
Gadget information is updated automatically and immediately.
Click a gadget or gadget elements to drill down to more detailed information. Typically, clicking a gadget element takes you either to the statistics page of the associated workspace, or to an inventory page. Some gadgets let you filter information by selecting a specific segment or bar from a chart, or a specific line of a table. For example, if you select the red segment on the Status of Tasks run gadget, you navigate to the manage tasks inventory page that displays only failed tasks.
You can move gadgets on the dashboard or change the size of them. Changes in location or size of dashboard gadgets persist on returning to the dashboard, even after logging back into the system.
