At-a-Glance Views of Service Status

A dashboard is a graphical user interface (GUI) that somewhat resembles an automobile's dashboard—it organizes and presents information in a way that makes it easy to understand the status of the working environment.

In the case of an automobile, the dashboard reveals the state of the engine, the brakes, the speed of the car, fuel levels, and more.

In the case of a business, NMS executive and business dashboards highlight the state of IT (the network and critical servers, databases and applications, etc.), the business (branch offices, business productivity levels, etc.), and the state of its end users (business service transaction speeds, quality of service, etc.).

This combined set of technology and business status indicators makes it possible to fully understand the state of critical business services and the end-to-end IT infrastructure.

NMS dashboards offer these capabilities:

• Integrate multiple IT and business components. With the broad array of NMS solutions, it is possible to access practically any type of IT and business data. Once the data has been collected and consolidated in NMS, it is available for display in NMS dashboards.
  
• Combine alert, performance, and SLA compliance visibility. Nimsoft is able to collect and monitor IT and business data to determine its real-time alert status. With a combined set of status indicators, it becomes possible to see—in a single view—real-time alerts, trends leading up to alerts, and the impact alerts and performance trends are having on service level commitments.
  
• Design toolkit enables tailored management views. NMS provides the flexibility for users to build dashboards that suit personal preferences and achieve the desired management perspectives.
  
• Multi-layer executive and business dashboards. Nimsoft Executive and Business Dashboards provide multi-layer design and navigation capabilities. This means objects that are designed into a Nimsoft dashboard can be made to access a second level dashboard when selected. This action can be repeated for any number of dashboard layers, thus creating a multi-layer dashboard configuration.
• Dashboard access control. Once dashboards have been created and saved, they can then be assigned access rights. With NMS, users can be setup to access and interact with only the dashboards that are assigned to them.