Viewing Important Information at a Glance: the Dashboard

The Dashboard is the starting point when you sign in to SAS Environment Manager. The page consists of a collection of views (called portlets) of resources and metrics that are the most important to your environment. The Dashboard is customizable, so you can specify how many portlets are displayed, which metrics and functions they present, and which resources they cover. For example, your Dashboard could contain a portlet to display recently auto-discovered resources, a portlet to display recent alerts, or a portlet to display the availability of a group of selected servers. Selecting an entry (such as a resource or an alert) in a portlet takes you to detailed information about the entry.

Each user can access their own personal Dashboard as well as a Dashboard for each of the native roles of which the user is a member. Each Dashboard can be customized to meet the needs of the user or role. For more information about roles, see About Native Roles and Users.

An example Dashboard page is displayed in this figure.