• Network Security Manager 2.5.0
• Network Security Manager Overview
  • About Network Security Manager
  • Related Documents
  • API Support
  • Legal Information
  • Conventions
    • Guide Conventions
    • UI Conventions
• Dashboard
  • Summary
  • Network
  • Threat
• Firewalls
  • Device Inventory
    • Device Status
      • Management Status
      • System Details
      • License Details
      • Zero Touch Status
      • Template and Firmware Versions
    • Managing Devices
      • Editing Device Settings
      • Multi-device Firmware Upgrade
      • Upgrading Firmware
      • Synchronizing Firewall Configuration with NSM
      • Creating Backup of Device Configuration
      • Manual Firewall Acquisition
    • Firewall View
  • Device Groups
    • Working with Device Groups
      • Creating Device Groups
      • Editing Device Groups
      • Creating Backup of Device-Group Configuration
      • Deleting Device Groups
  • Device Backups
    • Scheduling Backups
    • Archiving TSR
    • Archiving EXP
• Templates and Variables
  • Templates
    • Templates Inventory
    • Creating Templates
    • Editing Templates
    • Viewing Template Configuration
    • Creating Duplicate Template
    • Modifying Template Attributes
    • Applying Templates
    • View Template Status
    • Deleting Templates
    • Storage
  • Golden Template
  • Variable Data
    • Template Variables Overview
    • Add Variable
    • Edit Variable
    • Resolve Variable
    • Delete Variable
    • Using Template Variables
    • Creating Variables within Templates
• SonicWall Switch Configuration in Template
  • Add Switch
  • Edit Port
  • Switches
    • Network
    • Users
    • Static routes
    • 802.1x
    • Radius server
    • ARP
• Certificates
  • Navigating Certificates
  • New Signing Request
  • Commit and Deploy Certificate(s)
  • Configuring SCEP
  • Importing Certificates
  • Deleting Certificates
• Configuration Management
  • Approval Groups
    • Approval Workflow Settings
  • Approval Group Management
    • Searching the Approval Groups
    • Adding a New Approval Group
    • Editing an Approval Group
    • Deleting an Approval Group
    • Setting the Default Approval Group
  • Configuration Management Workflow
    • Committing and Deploying the Updates
      • Committing and Deploying Updates in the Firewall View
      • Committing and Deploying Updates to Device(s) in the Manager View
    • Viewing Pending Configuration Updates
    • Discarding Pending Configurations
    • Monitoring Commits
    • Managing Commits
      • Editing Commits
      • Redeploying Commits
      • Rescheduling Commits
      • Deleting Commits
    • Auditing Configuration Changes
• Tenants
• VPN Topology
  • IPsec VPN Topology
    • Topologies
      • Hub and Spoke Topology
      • Full Mesh Topology
      • Point to Point Topology
    • Security Associations
  • IPsec Monitor
  • Global Settings
• SD-WAN Topology
  • Configuring SD-WAN
  • Basic Information
  • Rules and Devices
    • Service Rule
    • Application Rule
    • Device Selection
• CSC Users
  • CSC User Status
  • Users
    • Sorting and Filtering
    • Editing CSC Users
  • Support Portal Users
  • Roles and Permissions
  • Authentication Servers
• Scheduled Reports
  • Managing the Schedules
    • Creating Scheduled Reports
    • Editing Schedule
    • Running Reports Manually
    • Setting the Report Date Range
  • Archived Reports
    • Downloading Archived Reports
• System Events
  • Configuring Log Settings
  • Alerts and Notifications
  • Configuring Twilio Setting for SMS
  • Viewing System Events
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Dashboard

The Dashboard provides a visual status of the security infrastructure. You can review the Dashboard and see at a glance if any issues need investigating. The system dashboard has four tabs: Device, Summary, Network, and Threat. You can quickly see the summary of status of devices, traffic distribution, and threats to know whether you have issues and where to focus to resolve them.

The default view of system dashboard is Devices dashboard. It shows a summary of the devices and alerts in your infrastructure.

For the on-premises solution, the only view on the Dashboard is the Devices view. There are no other tab options at the top of the graph. The tab Devices, Summary, Network and Threat are only seen on the SaaS version of NSM, and these are described in the following sections.

At the top of the dashboard, you see a summary of your devices:

• FIREWALLS: Displays the number of firewalls that you intend to manage through NSM. Click FIREWALLS to list all the firewalls in the Inventory page.
• OFFLINE: Displays the number of firewalls that are offline. Click OFFLINE to list the offline devices in the Inventory page.
• EXPIRING LICENSES: Displays the number of expiring firewall licenses.
• GROUPS: Displays the number of device groups. Click GROUPS to list the device groups.

The FIREWALL OVERVIEW section shows how many devices are ONLINE & MANAGED, OFFLINE, ONLINE & UNMANAGED and UNASSIGNED. A pie chart representation of firewall overview is also displayed. The geographical locations of the firewalls are shown on the map. For more details of the devices in a particular location, click the map location.

The Alert Center is shown at the bottom of the Device dashboard. An alert summary is provided and you can click on any of the categories—All, Threats, or General to open the Notification Center and see all the alerts for the selected category. The most recent alerts are displayed in a tabular format below the summary.