Dashboard

Dashboard Dashboard Dashboard

The Dashboard provides an overview of the state of at a glance. It is extremely useful for quickly viewing or monitoring what is happening on the network and the current status of the Untangle server.

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An example dashboard

By default the dashboard will several widgets which show varying information. However, the dashboard is completely customizable. Widgets can be removed and added so the administrator sees exactly the information that is important to them on the dashboard.

There are many different type of widgets available:

Name	Information
Information	Shows some information about Untangle, like name, model, version, etc.
Hardware	Shows an overview of the hardware configuration.
Network	Shows a list of configured interfaces.
CPU Load	Shows a graph of recent CPU load.
Host & Devices	Shows stats about the current hosts and devices on the network.
Sessions	Shows stats about the current sessions being processed.
Memory	Shows stats about the current memory usage
Server	Shows stats about the current CPU and disk usage.
Report	Shows any Report Entry from Reports
Events	Shows any Events Entry from Reports

To add/remove/configure widgets click on Manage Widgets at the top. From here you can add/remove widgets. When adding a widget you first need to select the type of widget you wish to add. Beware, some widget types can only be added to the dashboard once.

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Adding a widget

After choosing the widget type, you may see more settings related to that specific widget type. For example, for a Report widget you will need to choose a Refresh Interval and a Timeframe and obviously which Report Entry the widget should show. You can display any report entry including custom-created report entries. To see more about creating report entries look at the Reports documentation.