Dashboard
The dashboard provides with a quick access to information about deployments, scans, computers, and software assets in your infrastructure.
Dashboard and reports
Starting from 10.0.2.0, BigFix Inventory default dashboard displays vendor-specific predefined reports summary of the selected inventory reports and a preview of the security features. The reports are grouped in a specific order. For more information on vendor-specific predefined reports, refer to Vendor-specific predefined reports.
To view the old dashboard, click Go to the previous version. You can set the previous or new dashboard as your default dashboard when required. To do so, click the user icon and select Set as homepage.
The reports are grouped to help you find all your related reports together. For more information about the reports, refer to Available reports.
Use the search option to search your preferred reports. You can search with file name, file hash, CVE name, and software component. To search your preferred files, use File Name or File Hash. Enter the software component name to discover the software. To search data about vulnerable software, use CVE name. The default search filter is set to Discovered Software.
The quick search on the top right corner allows you to search contracts
with contract name.
Previous dashboard
Deployment Health
Deployment Health widget shows whether BigFix clients that are installed in your infrastructure are connecting to the BigFix server. It also reports the most common issues that occur when clients are operating such as, problems with disk space or missing scanner prerequisites.
- Elements of the widget
The total number of computers to which the user has access. The number
is determined by the computer group to which the user is
assigned.
The total number of computers includes Mac computers. However,
information about deployment health is not collected from these systems.
Thus, they are not included in the counts for particular
statuses.
Links to the report with results narrowed down to computers with
the particular status.
The number of computers with a particular status.
Link to information about actions that you can take to resolve the reported problems.
Software Scan Health
The Software Scan Health widget shows the health of scans that are running in your infrastructure. When software scans are not working correctly, the installed software might not be discovered.
- Elements of the widget
- The total number of computers to which the user has access. The
number is determined by the computer group to which the user is assigned. The total number of computers includes Mac computers. However,
only information about the status of the package data scan is collected
from these systems. Therefore, Mac computers are included in the count
for the Failed Scan status. They are not included in the counts for the
remaining statuses.
- Links to the report with results narrowed down to computers with
the particular status.
- The number of computers with a particular status.
- Link to information about scan
problems.
Link to information about activating analyses required to collect data that is displayed
on the widget.
Capacity Scan Health
The Capacity Scan Health widget shows whether capacity data is correctly gathered from the computers in your infrastructure. The lack of capacity data might impact calculation of PVU consumption.
- Elements of the widget
- The total number of computers to which the user has access. The
number is determined by the computer group to which the user is
assigned. The total number of computers includes Mac computers.
However, information about capacity data is not collected from these
systems. Thus, they are not included in the counts for particular
statuses.
- Links to the report with results narrowed down to computers
with the particular status. For more information about each status, see:
Computer statuses.
- The number of computers with a particular status.
- A link to the VM Managers panel.
- A link to information about the flow
of capacity data between virtual machines, VM Manager Tool, and the BigFix Inventory
server.
Inventory Exploration
The Inventory Exploration widget shows top five publishers with the largest number of defined contracts. The publishers are ordered according to the number of computers on which their software is installed, regardless of the number of contracts.
- Elements of the widget
- The number of products from a particular publisher.
Inventory Data
The widget shows a summary of the installed BigFix software as well as computers, and computer groups in your infrastructure.
- Elements of the widget
- A link to the Software Installations
report.
- A link to the Computer Groups report.
- A link to the Computers report.
Software Catalog
- Elements of the widget
- Links to lists of publishers, software products, versions,
releases, components, and signatures that are available in the current
catalog.
- Name of the catalog provider.
- Version of the software catalog. If a warning sign appears, it
indicates that the software that is not the current catalog is
discovered. To view a list of such products, filter the Software
Classification report by
Product name,is empty. For more information, see: Catalog Problems: The<not set>value appears under the Product Name on Software Classification panel. -
Date and time when the report was last
edited. -
Link
to the report with information when software reaches end of
support.
IBM PVU Subcapacity
The widget shows products with the highest PVU consumption rate. It shows how many PVUs a product consumes but does not relate this information to your license entitlements. By default, the maximum of five products is displayed.
The accuracy of the displayed data depends on when the scan data was imported, whether the PVU table is up-to-date, and whether software assignment was modified. If any of these factors was changed, an appropriate message is displayed on the widget.
If the widget shows No data, the data is not available. It might
occur when scan data was not uploaded, the upload of the data has not finished yet,
or inventory scans do not work properly. The message is not displayed if the data
from at least one BigFix client
is successfully updated.
- Elements of the widget
- The PVU consumption rate for a product.
- A link to the entire IBM PVU Subcapacity
report.
- The current version of the PVU table.
- A link to the website on which you can check whether a new
version of the PVU table is available.
- A link to the Metric Table Upload panel on
which you can upload a new version of the PVU table.
IBM Software Classification
The widget shows the number of completed and pending classifications of the software that is installed in your infrastructure.
The accuracy of the displayed data depends on when the scan data was imported and whether the part numbers file is up-to-date. If any of these factors was changed, an appropriate message is displayed on the widget.
If the widget shows No data, the data is not available. It might
occur when scan data was not uploaded, the upload of the data has not finished yet,
or inventory scans do not work properly. The message is no longer displayed if scan
data from at least one BigFix
client is successfully updated.
- Elements of the widget
- A link to the Software Classification
panel with results narrowed down to software installations with complete
classification.
- A link to the Software Classification
panel with results narrowed down to software installations that are
still pending classification completion. Go through these items and
either confirm their default assignment or reassign them to different
products so that all installations in your infrastructure are
confirmed.
- A link to the Software Classification
panel.
- The date when the last part numbers file was imported.
- A link to the Part Numbers Upload panel on
which you can upload the part numbers file.