Live! Creating the Ultimate Network Management Dashboards

Creating and Optimizing dashboards can improve visibility into network performance, decrease problem resolution time, increase staff productivity, and optimize system performance. During this webcast we'll discuss best practices for designing and implementing network management dashboards. Using Orion to demonstrate these strategies we'll discuss:

• Key elements every dashboard should have
• Different dashboards for different people
• Ways to optimize the performance of your dashboards
• Things to avoid in your dashboards
• Advanced customization of dashboards and other wicked cool tricks

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If you have suggestions or your own cool tips around creating dashboards please send them to me at headgeek@solarwinds.com

Here are a few tips on network management dashboards:

1. Brainstorm with your team about the ways that you naturally group and describe the network and then name your dashboards accordingly.

2. Create dashboards that are specific to each user and their specific responsibilities and tastes.

3. Optimize your dashboards with performance in mind.

4. Use data from several different sources to create more comprehensive dashboards.

5. Get some dashboard ideas from Orion® NPM Top 100 views

Check out these book recommendations from the Head Geek:

Orion Network Performance Monitor »
Fundamental Protocols of Network Management »
Network Management on a Budget - Doing More with Less »
SolarWinds In 5 Enterprise Environments »
Jedi Manual Basic | Buy on Amazon »
Network Warrior | Buy on Amazon »
Network Management Fundamentals | Buy on Amazon »

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