Widget Creation and Configuration
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Important Information Changes to the Dashboard cannot be undone, we recommend saving the Dashboard regularly. |
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Prerequisites An Admin Account |
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Click Default Dashboards cannot be modified. |
| ❷ | Right click anywhere inside the Dashboard click  |
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Select a Dashboards Widgets and drag onto the Dashboard. Use the You can move the Widget where you need it. |
| ❹ | Right click Widget, click  to configure it |
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Apply Widget Configurations as needed and click Dashboard To save changes click |
button to review your changes. 
Discovery: Widget Configurations (Properties)Discovery: Widget Configurations (Properties)
This menu is available upon right-click on the widget ('Edit')
| Name (Internal Use Only) | The widget name (not visible outside the Widget Editor). | ||
| Task Name (Available for the Task Widgets) | The name of the task the widget illustrates. | ||
| Task Interval (Available for the Tasks Widgets) | The task can be repeated daily, weekly, after the custom interval, or never (select None to create a non-recurring task widget). | ||
| Label | The label you assign to a particular widget. | ||
| Time (Available for the Tasks Widgets) | You can configure the task completion time by changing the value in the corresponding field. | ||
| Show Title | If the option is checked, write the widget title in the corresponding field to make it visible. | ||
| Title Align (Available for the Tasks Widgets) | This option allows you to configure the title alignment on the widget. | ||
| Style | A Task widget can be either a button or rectangle. | ||
| Show icon | You can select a widget image in the Appearance section of the widget. However, if you don’t want the image to be shown on the widget, you can uncheck this box. | ||
| Show Legend | If the option is checked, the legend becomes visible. | ||
| Legend Position | You may select whether the legend is shown at the bottom, to the left, to the right, or at the top of the widget if you make it visible. | ||
| Action (Available for the Queries and Patches Widgets) |
Click Action |
Show | Widget is only a display |
| Scan |
Turns widget into a scan task. Uses Devices and Patches as defaults for the task. |
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| Deploy |
Turns widget into a patch deploy task. Uses Devices and Patches as defaults for the task. |
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| Data |
Time Frame (Available for the Patches Widgets) | Patches released within what time frame should be scanned or deployed. | |
| Vulnerability Type | Patches | The Patch query is used | |
| Security | The Vulnerability query is used. | ||
| Graph Shows |
Devices (Available for the Devices Widgets) |
Graph is organized by count devices. This must match the device type within the Data section. |
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| Vulnerabilities |
Graph is organized by a count of vulnerabilities. This must match the patch type within the Data section. |
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| Unlicensed |
Graph is organized by the count of unlicensed software. This must match the patch type within the Data section. |
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| Devices (Available for the Queries Widgets) | Select the group of devices to be used by the query. | ||
| Vulnerability (Available for the Queries Widgets) | Select the group of vulnerabilities to be used by the query. | ||
| Top X (Available for the Queries Widgets) | Select the Top X vulnerable devices to be used by the query. | ||
| Appearance |
Cutout |
Changing the cutout percent, you configure the amount of empty space inside the doughnut-type widgets. By changing the value to 0%, you turn the doughnut type chart into a pie chart (and vice versa) |
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| No Data Message (Available for the Queries Widgets) | Configure the appearance of the No Data Message using HTML tags | ||
| Column Sets (Available for the Queries Widgets) | Select the pre-configured column sets from the dropdown list | ||
| Line Thickness (Available for the Line Widgets) | You can configure the thickness of a line widget by changing the value in the corresponding field | ||
| Orientation (Available for Some Decorates Widgets) | You can select whether the widget is displayed horizontally or vertically | ||
| Line Style (Available for the Line Widgets) | The style of a line widget (None, Solid, Dotted, Dashed, or Doubled) | ||
| Background Color | Background color of the widget | ||
| Foreground | The foreground color of the widget | ||
| Colors Image | You can select an icon for the widget from the given images | ||
| Highlight Color | The highlight color of the widget | ||
| Chart Type (Available for the Query Graph Widgets) |
Doughnut | A doughnut chart | |
| Horizontal Bar | A horizontal bar chart | ||
| Pie | A pie chart | ||
| Center Text | This field allows you to change the text inside the diagram | ||
| Z-Index | Ordering of overlapping widgets 10 by default if not set | ||
| Custom CSS | You can paste your custom CSS code into this field to modify your console design, including colors, fonts, layout, etc | ||
Last Update: Mar 12, 2024
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