Dashboards and Monitors

Question 1

What benefit do dashboards offer?

Answer 1

They allow you to keep a constant watch on your environment.

Question 2

What are monitors?

Answer 2

Monitors are condensed information about your environment that appear in the form of charts and graphs. They comprise dashboards.

Question 3

How are dashboards usually organized?

Answer 3

There is an overall theme to the dashboard(ex: Threat Events) and the monitors that appear on the dashboard relate to the theme

Question 4

Hypothetically, if you deleted all dashboards, what would appear on the dashboard screen in ePO?

Answer 4

This text appears in the middle of the dashboards page “No dashboards are configured. Create a new dashboard or import an existing dashboard”

Question 5

What are the different dashboard groups?

Answer 5

Public - User created Dashboards that are shared across users

Private - Dashboards only able to be viewed by the creator

Shared - Dashboards only able to be viewed by the creator and specific permission sets that are determined by the creator

McAfee - Default Dashboards provided by McAfee. Can’t be edited or deleted, can be viewed by all users. Can be duplicated and used as the starting point for a new dashboard

Question 6

How can you move a dashboard from one ePO server to another?

Answer 6

By exporting it from the source server and exporting it to the destination server

Question 7

What file type are dashboards saved as when they’re exported?

Answer 7

XML

Question 8

How can you configure which dashboard a user sees upon initial log on?

Answer 8

In the ‘Dashboards’ server setting, you can configure the initial dashboard for specific permissions, and then configure an initial dashboard for all other permission sets that weren’t specified

Question 9

What might it mean if a message displays in place of a monitor on a dashboard?

Answer 9

You may not have the necessary rights or product licenses to view a monitor, or the underlying query for the monitor may not be available any longer

Question 10

What happens when a dashboard monitor is refreshed?

Answer 10

The underlying query behind the monitor runs, and the results are displayed on the dashboard

Question 11

What is the default refresh interval for new monitors?

Answer 11

5 minutes

Question 12

What should be considered when choosing a refresh interval for monitors?

Answer 12

You want it to be frequent enough to ensure accurate and timely information is displayed without consuming undue network resources

Question 13

Where can you change the default rate at which new monitors are refreshed?

Answer 13

In the Dashboards server setting

Question 14

Where is the information presented by monitors derived from?

Answer 14

Typically, the information will be pulled from queries, but there are other types of monitors, such as McAfee Links, or Quick Find

Question 15

What is a consideration that should be made when setting the default dashboard refresh rate? (Hint: It relates to the user session timeout interval)

Answer 15

The refreshing of a dashboard monitor is considered to be activity by ePO, so if the dashboard refresh interval is less than the user session timeout interval, and you leave the ePO console on the dashboards page, you could walk away and then the console would never log you out

Question 16

How can you change the refresh interval for individual modules?

Answer 16

Whenever you add a monitor, you have the opportunity to configure the refresh interval for it. It will initially be populated by the value that was configured as the default in the dashboards server setting, but you can change it if you desire. Also, you can edit a monitor that has already been added to a dashboard and change the refresh interval to whatever you’d like.

Question 17

T/F: The initial McAfee dashboards that come with a fresh installation of ePO are all that there are

Answer 17

False, as you check in new extensions for new products, new McAfee dashboards will be added

Question 18

What are some notable McAfee dashboards?

Answer 18

ePO Summary - Displays an overview of your environment. Shows the status of your master repository, systems per top level group, malware detection history, and helpful McAfee links

ePO Server Snapshot - Shows the status of your disaster recovery snapshot, and allows you to initiate the process by clicking a button

Threat Events - Shows a summary of threat activity that’s occurred recently in your environment

Question 19

What type of query cannot serve as a dashboard monitor?

Answer 19

A query that displays its results in the form of a table cannot be used as a dashboard monitor