Managing Dashboards

Dashboards are a collection of Widgets. Dashboards give you an overview of the reports and metrics that are most important to you. You can personalize Dashboards by customizing Widgets. By default, Genian NAC provides over 100 Widgets which are categorized by the following groups.You can add, delete, customize and share your dashboards depending on your requirements.

Create Dashboards

  1. Click Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Click Tools > Create Dashboard.
  3. Find Name in Create Dashboard window. Enter in Unique Name.
  4. Set Share to ON or Off to make the dashboard available to other Administrators.
  5. Select Type, and Layout in Create Dashboard window.
  6. Click Save.

Edit Dashboards

  1. Click Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Select the Dashboard you wish to edit.
  3. Click Tools > Edit Dashboard.
  4. Find Name in Create Dashboard window. Enter in Unique Name.
  5. Set Share to ON or Off to make the dashboard available to other Administrators.
  6. Select Type, and Layout in Create Dashboard window.
  7. Click Save.

Import Dashboards

  1. Click Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Click Tools > Import Dashboard.
  3. Move the desired Dashboards into the selected column.
  4. Click Save.

Remove Dashboards

  1. Click Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Click desired Dashboard tab.
  3. Go to Tools > Delete Dashboard.
  4. Click Ok.

Export Dashboards

You can export Dashboards into several formats:

  1. Click Dashboard in the top panel
  2. Select Dashboard tab you choose to export
  3. Click Export and select the format

Add a Widget to Dashboard

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Click Tools > Add Widget.
  3. Find Category section in the Add Widget window. Select Category.
  4. Find Widget section in the Add Widget window.
  5. Click Add Widget.

Delete a Widget

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Find Widget and hover over the title bar.
  3. Click X.
  4. Click Ok.

Arrange Widgets

Widgets can be grabbed by the title bar and dragged to the desired location.

Customize the Settings of a Widget

Hovering over a widget will make a gear icon appear in the upper right corner of the widget. Clicking the gear icon will display that widget’s settings. Setting changes can be applied to the widget by clicking Save when finished.

Creating a Sensor Map

To monitor and customize Sensor Placement globally using Google Maps.

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Click Tools > Create Dashboard.
  3. Find Name in Create Dashboard window. Enter in Unique Name.
  4. Find Type in Create Dashboard window. Select Sensor Map.
  5. Click Sensor Map tab that was just created.
  6. Find Settings Icon in the right corner. Click Assign Node Group.
  7. Find Node Group in Node Group window. Double-click Node Group to add.
  8. Click Save.

Place a Sensor on Sensor Map

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Go to Sensor Map tab.
  3. Find Menu icon in the upper right corner of the main panel.
  4. Find Sensor bubble and drag it to the desired location.

Creating Custom Widget

Administrators can customize widgets and add them to the dashboard. Genian NAC provides Content and Link features for custom widgets. Administrators can personalize widgets by using an HTML page and URL and monitor the external Web pages.

Creating Custom Widget by HTML Code

Genian NAC provides Content features for create custom widgets using HTML code.

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.

  2. Click Tools > Create Dashboard.

  3. Find Custom in Categories list.

  4. Click create button on the bottom.

  5. Choose Content button.

  6. Enter widget name on Title.

  7. Enter a description on Description.

  8. Uplaod image on Image URL (optional).

  9. Enter Height on Height (optional).

  10. Insert Html source code on Content.

    <html>
<body>Hello, world!</body>
</html>

  11. Click Save.

Creating Custom Widget by URL

Genian NAC provides Link features for create custom widgets using URL(Uniform Resource Locator).

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.

  2. Click Tools > Create Dashboard.

  3. Find Custom in Categories list.

  4. Click create button on the bottom.

  5. Choose Link button.

  6. Enter widget name on Title.

  7. Enter a description on Description.

  8. Uplaod image on Image URL (optional).

  9. Enter Height on Height (optional).

  10. Insert URL on URL.

  11. Insert URL Parameter on Parameter

    https://www.genians.com

  12. Click Save.

Creating Mobile Platform Detection Widget

Administrators can create Mobile Platform Detection Widget for monitoring Mobile devices.

Step 1. Create Mobile platform Node Group

Please refer to Managing Node Groups for create new node group

Create Android Nodegroup
  • Node Group Type : Status Group
  • Group Condition
    • Criteria : OS
    • Value : Android
Create Iphone OS Nodegroup
  • Node Group Type : Status Group
  • Group Condition
    • Criteria : OS
    • Value : iPhone OS

Step 2. Assign Node Group to Widget

  1. Go to Dashboard in the top panel.
  2. Click Tools > Create Dashboard.
  3. Find Node in Categories list.
  4. Find Node Group or Node Detection Statistics by Node Group.
  5. Click Add Widget.
  6. Find Node Group on left side and move to right.
  7. Configure View Criteria, Value Font Size, Lable Font Size, Time Graph, Name, Update Interval, Height.
  8. Click Save.