Dashboard
The dashboard provides you with a quick overview of the most important information about scans, computers, and software assets in your infrastructure.
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.
- Elements of the widget
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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
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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 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 data from at least one computer is
successfully updated.
- 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.
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 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 data from at least one computer is
successfully updated.
- 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.
- 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
Deprecated widgets
- 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.