The System Dashboard enables you to proactively monitor the status, incidents and compliance violations in the group as they occur. The color-coded interface is designed to highlight problem areas — targets that are down are highlighted in red, metrics in critical severity are shown as red dots, metrics in warning severity are shown as yellow dots, and metrics operating within normal boundary conditions are shown as green dots.

Using these colors, you can easily determine the problem areas for any target and drill down for details as needed. An incident table is also included to provide a summary for all open incidents in the group. The incidents in the table are presented in reverse chronological order to show the most recent incidents first, but you can also click any column in the table to change the sort order. The colors in top bar of the Member Targets table change based on the incident's critical level. The priority progresses from warning to critical to fatal. If the group has at least one fatal incident (irrespective of critical or warning incidents), the top bar becomes dark red. If the group has at least one critical incident (irrespective of warning incidents), the top bar becomes faint red. If the group has only warning incidents, the top bar turns yellow. If the group has no incidents, the top bar remains colorless.

The Dashboard auto-refreshes based on the Refresh Frequency you set on the Customize Dashboard page.

The Dashboard allows you to drill down for more detailed information. You can click the following items in the Dashboard for more information:

• A target name to access the target home page

• A group or system name to access the System Dashboard

• Status icon corresponding to specific metric columns to access the metric detail page

• Status icon for a metric with key values to access the metric page with a list of all key values

• Dashboard header to access the group home page

• Incidents and Problems table to view summary information about all incidents or specific categories of incidents.

Click Customize to access the Customize Dashboard page. This page allows you to change the refresh frequency and display options for the Member Targets table at the top of the dashboard. You can either show all individual targets or show by target type. There is also the option to expand or contract the Incidents and Problems table at the bottom. To change the columns shown in the Member Targets table, go to the Columns tab of the Edit Group page which you can access by choosing Target Setup from the Group menu.

In the Group by Target Type mode, the Dashboard displays information of the targets based on the specific target types present in the group or system. The statuses and incidents displayed are rolled up for the targets in that specific target type.

If you minimize the dashboard window, pertinent alert information associated with the group or system is still displayed in the Microsoft Windows toolbar.

You can use Information Publisher reports to make the System Dashboard available to non-Enterprise Manager users. First, create a report and include the System Monitoring Dashboard reporting element. In the report definition, choose the option, Allow viewing without logging in to Enterprise Manager. Once this is done, you can view it from the Enterprise Manager Information Publisher Reports website.