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The dashboard provides you with a quick overview of the most important information about scans, computers, and software assets in your infrastructure.

Tip: Read the Deployment Health, Software Scan Health, and Capacity Scan Health widgets from left to right and fix issues in this order.

Deployment Health

The widget shows the most common issues that might occur while BigFix clients or disconnected scanners are operating such as problems with uploading scan data 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.; Links to the report with results narrowed down to computers with the particular status. For more information, see: Statuses on the Deployment Health widget.; 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 widget shows the health of software scans that are running in your infrastructure. When software scans are not working correctly, the installed software might not be discovered.

Important: For computers on which the BigFix client is installed, the Software Scan Status analysis must be activated for the widget to show valid data. Otherwise, all computers are reported with the Failed Scan and Missing Scan statuses.

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.; Links to the report with results narrowed down to computers with the particular status. For more problems, see: Statuses on the Software Scan Health widget.; 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 from computers on which the BigFix client is installed.

Capacity Scan Health

The widget shows whether capacity data is correctly gathered from the computers in your infrastructure. The lack of capacity data might impact calculation of subcapacity 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.; Links to the report with results narrowed down to computers with the particular status. For more information about each status, see: Statuses on the Capacity Scan Health widget.; 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 License Metric Tool server.

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.

Accuracy of the displayed data depends on when the scan data was imported 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 products, the values are not yet calculated. It might occur when scan data was not uploaded, the upload of the data has not finished yet, inventory scans do not work properly or when there are no chargeable components assigned to products with the metric. The message is no longer displayed if data from at least one computer is successfully updated.

It is important to note that even if the data resides within ILMT, it will not be displayed unless certain bundling conditions are met. For example, the status appears if there are no chargeable components assigned to products with the metric. The scenario can occur if the component-product relation type is marked as free rather than charged.

Elements of the widget: The PVU consumption rate for a product.; A link to the entire PVU Subcapacity report.; The current version of the PVU table.

VPC Subcapacity

The widget shows products with the highest VPC consumption rate. It shows how many VPCs a product consumes but does not relate this information to your license entitlements. By default, the maximum of five products is displayed.

Elements of the widget: The VPC consumption rate for a product.; A link to the entire VPC Subcapacity report.

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.

Software Classification widget

Elements of the widget: A link to the Software Classification panel with results narrowed down to software installations for which classification was confirmed.; A link to the Software Classification panel with results narrowed down to software installations for which classification was not confirmed. 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.; A link to the Products & Metrics report where you can upload part numbers or declare software entitlements to improve default assignment of components to products. For more information, see: Defining software entitlements.; Catalog search field. You can use it to browse software products and components that are available in the current software catalog.

Additional information

To retrieve the same information that was displayed on the removed alternative dashboard, please use the existing reports, as explained below.

Table 1. Additional information
Deprecated widget name	Procedure
Computers	Go to Reports > Computers and check the number of rows.
Computers - Recent	Go to Reports > Computers. Select the predefined report, Computers - Recent and check the number of rows.
Computers with Issues	Go to Reports > Computers > . Select the predefined report, Computers with Issues and check the number of rows.
Software Installations - Recent	Go to Reports > Software Classification. Select the predefined report, Software Installations - Recent and check the number of rows
All Metrics	Go to Reports > All Metrics and check the number of rows.
Out of Support Software	Go to Reports > Software Classification. Select the predefined report, Out of Support Software and check the number of rows.
Software Approaching End of Support	Go to Reports > Software Classification. Select the predefined report,Software Approaching End of Support and check the number or rows.

Removed widgets and views

Starting from application update 9.2.29, the following widgets are no longer available:

Inventory data: The widget shows a summary of the installed IBM software and provides a search filed for searching components and products that were discovered in your infrastructure.
Software Catalog: The widget shows information about the content and version of the current software catalog.

Starting from application update 9.2.36, the following view is no longer available:

Additional information: The view provides additional information about computers and software in your infrastructure. It differs depending on whether you have permissions to view reports on which the dashboard widgets are based. Each widget summaries the number of rows on the respective report or report view. The same information can be retrieved using dedicated reports.