The dashboard

Administrator Help | TRITON AP-EMAIL | Version 8.2.x

The Value tab of the Status > Dashboard page appears first when you log on to the TRITON console and select the Email module. It shows information about the value of TRITON AP-EMAIL in your network, along with a summary of system health alerts.

The type of information and level of detail shown depends on your subscription level. The Email Hybrid Module is required, for example, to display information about the email hybrid service and how it safeguards your system. You must have purchased the Email Sandbox Module to view metrics on URL or advanced file analysis file sandbox functions. You must purchase a Threat Protection appliance to view advanced file analysis Threat Protection metrics.

Dashboard elements are visible to Super Administrators and those delegated administrators with permission to view reports on the email dashboard (see Managing administrator accounts).

The Save button in the upper right area of the dashboard activates when an administrator makes dashboard changes, for example when charts are added, removed, edited, or moved to another location on the dashboard. Renaming a tab also activates the Save button. Ensure that you save any changes before you navigate away from the dashboard.

The dashboard includes 2 other default tabs, in addition to the Value dashboard tab:

Inbound dashboard tab shows graphical charts that display top domains and message recipients for inbound email. Top domain and recipient information is sorted by message size or volume.

Outbound dashboard tab shows graphical charts that display top senders for outbound email, sorted by message size or volume. Other default charts for this tab show an overall outbound message summary and a summary of outbound messages that contained embedded URLs.

Add a new custom tab by clicking the tab that displays the "plus" sign icon (+). Enter a name in the Add Tab dialog box (maximum of 10 alphanumeric characters, including underscores). Click Add Charts to add elements to your new tab. You may add up to 4 custom tabs.

Click the edit icon for an active tab to open the Edit Tab dialog box, where you can change the tab name. You can also remove the tab by clicking Delete Tab. You can rename the default tabs if desired, but these tabs cannot be removed.

The default Value, Inbound, and Outbound dashboard tabs can each display up to 12 charts at a time. Most dashboard charts can be customized to change their time period (for example, today, last 7 days, last 30 days) and their display format (for example, stacked column, stacked area, multi-series line). You can include multiple versions of the same chart on a tab (for example, showing different time periods). See Available dashboard charts for a list of charts for dashboard display.

Most dashboard elements are updated every 2 minutes. The Health Alert Summary is updated every 30 seconds.

All elements on a tab are also updated when any element on the tab is modified. For example, if the time period for one chart is changed, data is refreshed in all of the charts on the page.

The available set of dashboard elements depends on your subscription type. Charts related to the email hybrid service, for example, are available only for deployments that include the Email Hybrid Module.

To add an element to the tab, click Add Charts, then see Adding elements to a dashboard tab for instructions.

Use a drag-and-drop function to move an element from one location on a tab to a different location on the same tab. Click the chart title area and drag the chart to its new location.

To remove an element from the tab, click the Options icon in the element title bar, then select Remove.

To access all editing options for an element, click the Options icon in the element title bar, then select Edit. Drill-down capabilities are available as well. You can perform the following edit operations:

"Top" numerical designation (e.g., Top N Data Loss Prevention Violations)

Restore default chart settings

Copy chart (adds chart to the active tab with "(2)" at the end of the title; select Edit to change the chart name)

To print a chart, click the Options icon and select Print. You can also right-click a chart and select the print option.

To view a larger version of a chart, click the Enlarge icon in the element title bar. You can access some editing options in this view (for example, chart type, time period, top numerical designation), as well as drill-down capabilities. Click Print Chart to print the current chart. When you click Close, any changes you have made to the chart in this view are not retained in the dashboard.

Clicking a pie, bar, or line chart typically allows the display of drill-down data with more details. For example, clicking a chart element that represents data for a 24-hour period can display the same data in 1-hour increments. These capabilities are available in the Edit, Enlarge, and Preview chart views.

Two buttons appear in the dashboard toolbar:

Add Charts allows administrators to customize their view of the selected dashboard tab by adding elements to the page. See Adding elements to a dashboard tab.

Print opens a secondary window with a printer-friendly version of the charts displayed on the page. Use browser options to print the page.