Escan/english/escan11/eScan Management Console/Dashboard

Dashboard

Dashboard is a special page that contains tabs, which display the status of deployment, protection, licenses, and statistics for eScan modules in the form of pie charts. It is displayed when you click the Dashboard menu item in the navigation bar. This page contains the Deployment, Protection Status, and Protection Statistics tabs.

User Interface

The Dashboard page is displayed when you click the Dashboard link in the navigation bar. This page contains the following tabs.

Deployment

This tab displays information regarding the status of eScan installation on client computers, the version of eScan installed, and the number of licenses available or deployed. This information is represented graphically in the form of pie charts. Each pie chart has a legend next to it. The legend displays the color associated with a data label and the value associated with the label. In case of the eScan Status and eScan Version, the values displayed in the legends are clickable.

The following charts are displayed on this tab.

a. The eScan Status pie chart displays the status of installation on eScan client computers. The status can be “Installed,” “Not Installed,” or “Unknown.” The legend displays the number of computers belonging to each category in the Value column. You can click a value to view the names of the computers and their status.

b. The eScan Version pie chart displays the versions of eScan available in the network and the number of computers running that version. You can click the value in the legend to view the names of the computers and the versions installed on them.

c. The License pie chart displays the rows depicting the total number of licenses available for deployment, the number of licenses deployed, and the number of licenses remaining and their corresponding values.

The license status message for the eScan server is displayed in the last row of the table. This descriptive message displays the number of days remaining for registration, for the evaluation period to end, or for the license period to end, depending on the whether the license key on the server has been activated or not. For example, if a trial version of eScan is running on the server, this column will display the message “xx day(s) remaining till the end of your Evaluation Period,” where xx is the number of days.

Protection Status

This tab shows pie charts that depict the protection status of eScan on the client computers in the network. Each pie chart is accompanied by a legend, which shows the color code for each status data label and its corresponding value. This status can be “Started”, “Stopped”, or “Unknown” which are depicted by the colors GREEN, RED, and GRAY respectively, in the legend. You can click the value to view the computer name and its status in a popup window.

a. File Scanner

b. Proactive

c. Mail Anti Virus

d. Anti Spam

e. Web Anti Phishing

f. Mail Anti Phishing

g. Web Protection

h. Firewall

i. End Point Security

j. End Point Security USB

k. End Point Security Application

l. Privacy

Configuration

This section displays the status of the Web Protection and Firewall modules. This information is contained in pie charts corresponding to these modules. These charts are described as follows:

A) Firewall

This pie chart displays information about number of computers on which each of the filters in the Firewall module, such as Allow All, Limited, and Interactive is active.

The legend displays color code for each of the data labels and the number of computers on which that filter is active. In addition, the legend displays a row with an entry named Unknown. The column next to the Unknown entry displays the number of computers for which the configuration status of the eScan Firewall filter is unknown. You can click a value in the legend to view a popup window that displays the computer name and status of the Firewall filter on that computer.

B) Web Protection

This pie chart displays information regarding the profiles (i.e., Unprivileged, Less Privileged, Normal Privileged, and Most Privileged) activated on eScan client computers. In addition, the column contains an entry named Unknown, which displays the number of computers for which the status of the profile is unknown.

The legend displays the number of computers on which the corresponding mode is active. You can click the number next to each mode to view a popup that displays the names of the computers and the status of the mode.

Since Last X Days

This section displays the update and scan status of the eScan client computers in the network in the form of pie charts. These charts are described as follows:

A) Update Status

This pie chart displays the update status of eScan client computers in a network. It is accompanied by a legend, which displays data labels such as Updated, Not Updated, and Unknown. The corresponding values are listed next to the data labels. You can click each value to view the computer names and their update status in a popup window.

B) Scan Status

This pie chart displays the status of scan operations conducted on eScan client computers in the network. The pie chart is accompanied by a legend, which displays the number of computers that have been scanned or not scanned. These values are shown next to data labels such as Scanned, Not Scanned, and Unknown. The values are clickable. You can click the values to view the computer names and their scan status in a popup window.

Protection Statistics

This tab shows the protection statistics for the File Anti Virus, Mail Anti Virus, Anti Spam, and Web Protection modules for the specified number of days in the form of pie charts. Each pie chart is accompanied by a legend, which displays the color code for each data label and the value associated with that label.

a. The File Anti Virus chart shows the number of files cleaned, quarantined, and deleted by the File Anti Virus module.

b. The Mail Anti Virus chart shows the number of allowed, quarantined, deleted, and disinfected e mails detected by the Mail Anti Virus module.

c. The Anti Spam chart shows the number of e mails deleted and quarantined by the Anti Spam module.

d. The Web Protection chart shows the number of Web sites allowed or blocked by the Web Protection module.