Dashboard Overview

The HPCA Console includes dashboards that enable you to view and assess the status of your enterprise at a glance:

Each dashboard includes two views:

Types of Dashboard Views
Type Description
Executive View High-level summaries designed for managers. This include historical information about the enterprise.
Operational View Detailed information designed for people who use HPCA in their day to day activities. This includes information about specific devices, subnets, vulnerabilities, and specific compliance or security tool issues.

Each view includes a number of information panes. You can configure HPCA to show you all or a subset of these panes. See Dashboards for more information.

Each dashboard also includes a home page with summary statistics and links to related reports. When you click one of these links, a separate browser window opens, and HPCA displays the report.

In most dashboard panes, you can display the information in either a chart or grid format. In the grid view, the current sort parameter is indicated by the icon in the column heading. To change the sort parameter, click a different column heading. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading again. To move a column, click the background in the column heading cell, and drag the column to a new location.

In most dashboard panes, you can rest the cursor on a colored area on a bar or pie chart—or a data point on a line chart—to see additional information. Most panes also enable you to drill down into reports that provide more detailed information.

The time stamp in the lower left corner of each pane indicates when the data in the pane was most recently refreshed from its source.

Time Stamp

Note: The dashboard panes use your local time zone to display the date and time. The reports available on the Reporting tab use Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) by default. Individual report packs, however, can be configured to use either GMT or local time.

If there is no security and compliance management data in the Reporting database—for example, before the first scan has been performed—the dashboard panes do not display any data.

You can perform the following actions in the dashboard panes:

Dashboard Pane Actions
Icon Description
Display the information in chart format.
Display the information in grid format.
Display the legend for this chart.
Refreshes the data from its source. Click the refresh icon in an individual pane to refresh the data for that pane. Click the refresh icon in the upper right corner of the dashboard to refresh all panes. The dashboard panes are not automatically refreshed if your HPCA Console session times out. You must manually refresh the panes after you sign in again if you want to get the latest information from the database.
Resets the appearance of all panes within the dashboard to their factory default settings.
For panes containing HPCA data, show the corresponding report. For panes containing information from external web sites or RSS feeds, go to the source web site.
Opens a “quick help” box or tool tip. Click this button once to see a brief description of the dashboard pane. Click it again to hide the quick help text.
Opens a context sensitive online help topic for this pane. This control is only available when the quick help text is visible.
Minimize a dashboard pane.
Maximize a dashboard pane.
After maximizing, restore the pane to its original size.

If you minimize a dashboard pane, the other panes will expand in size to fill the dashboard window. Likewise, if you maximize a dashboard pane, the other panes will be covered. To restore a pane that has been minimized, click the gray button containing its name at the bottom of the dashboard. In this example, the 24 Hour Service Events pane has been minimized:

Button that Restores a Dashboard Pane

You can drag and drop the panes to rearrange them within the dashboard window. You cannot, however, drag a pane outside of the dashboard.

When you customize the appearance of a dashboard by resizing or rearranging its panes—or switching between the chart and grid view in one or more panes—this customization is applied the next time you sign in to the HPCA Console. The dashboard layout settings are stored as a local Flash shared object (like a browser cookie) on your computer. The settings are saved unless you explicitly delete them.

Note: If you press the F5 function key while viewing one of the dashboards, you will return to that dashboard page after your browser reloads the HPCA Console.

In some grid views, trend indicators show you how a particular parameter is trending since the previous scan:

Trend Indicators
Icon Color Direction Description
Red Up Parameter has increased; the trend is bad.
Green Up Parameter has increased; the trend is good.
Red Down Parameter has decreased; the trend is bad.
Green Down Parameter has decreased; the trend is good.

For example, in the Vulnerability Impact by Severity (pie chart), if the number of High severity vulnerabilities has increased, a red arrow pointing up is displayed. If the number High severity vulnerability has decreased, a green arrow pointing down is displayed.

To assess the trend, HPCA summarizes each day’s data at midnight local time. For this reason, the data for the current day is incomplete. The trending indicator is based on the previous two days.


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