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Microsoft Exchange Dashboard

Nimsoft’s Microsoft Exchange Dashboard

It shows Microsoft Exchange Critical Resources and Email Response Times
This MS Exchange dashboard is a vibrant variation of the Exchange dashboard posted above.
Depicted top-left are core Exchange subsystems represented in iconic format with color-coded status indicators.
Graph views show resource utilization for OS components and key Exchange services.
Central to this dashboard are email […]

End-user Experience Dashboard

This dashboard from Nimsoft shows transaction response times as experienced by the end-user. Combined in this dashboard are performance graphs, realtime alert objects, and SLA compliance indicators.

Vending Machine Dashboard

 

A dashboard for Vending Machine that shows Soda Inventory and Temperature Status.
This creative dashboard from Nimbus, monitors the inventory in their office soda machine. It provides real-time visibility necessary to address low inventory levels, and should the unit temperature begin to rise to a warning level a service person can be contacted before the refrigerated […]

Cisco IP Service Level Agreement (IP SLA) Dashboard

This is IP SLA Dashboard from Nimsoft

What does the Dashboard Monitor?
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
Measures the roundtrip time taken to discover a DHCP server and obtain a lease from it. The lease is then released after the operation.
DNS (Domain Name System)
Measures the time required to send a DNS request and receive a reply. If a […]

BMC Dashboard | Monitor Everything through Dashboards

The idea of using Dashboards to monitor everything in your enterprise seems little farfetched but is perfectly possible if the focus is narrowed down to what “everything” is made of.
A typical corporation runs on multiple wheels like emails, web-server, databases, ERP, CRM, help desk etc
Is it possible to monitor atleast the overall health for all […]

Firewall Dashboard | Monitor Firewall Statistics

The above dashboard screenshot helps to monitor Firewall and Traffic statistics.
Some of the metrics are
Traffic Activity by number of IP addresses

External Visitors
Internal Users
External Destinations
Internal servers

It has a network diagram to put the statistics in context and reference.
The typical Google Analytics dashboard is very sophisticated in terms of showing the different cuts and views of the […]

Test Track Dashboard | Seapine

Tracking defects, issues, and feature requests is a critical component of any software development and quality control process.The earlier and quicker bugs are resolved, the lower your development cost and the higher your product quality.
Here is a dashboard screenshot for “TestTrack Pro”

 
Behind the Scenes SQL for the dashboard
Following are sample queries used in our dashboard. […]

Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 4

Read about the
Type - 1 approach
Type - 2 approach
Type - 3 approach
Type 4: This type defines the method of creating dashboard using Excel. The data and presentation is all part of the Excel file. This is the most popular approach as it is very easy and affordable to create dashboards. It is the least favourable […]

Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 3

Read about the Type 2 Approach
Type 3: This category involves the use of some big vendor BI tool. These BI tools are quite comprehensive and come with tons of options to choose from. They provide ad-hoc reporting and easy dashboard creation options. Once installed and configured, there is often a need to define data layer […]

Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 2

This is a continuation of the Dashboard Creation Methods
Type 2: This category involves the use of some Dashboard designing tool. You need to download and install the third party software and learn their basic steps in designing the dashboards. Most often the designing tools offer variety of connection methods to the various databases and write […]

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