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Dashboard

The dashboard provides a high-level overview of your Unitrends appliance. It displays protection status for assets, and summaries for all backup storage and active jobs. To set options for viewing tiles, and to adjust refresh rate, click the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the Backup summary tile to display Tile Preferences.

Backup summary tile

This tile displays the number of errors, not protected assets, and protected assets. Bar graphs indicate backup performance.

Note:   Unitrends appliances, virtual hosts, and VM templates are not included in the number of protected and unprotected assets.

Storage tile

This tile shows details about available and used storage. The tile displays the following information:

Field Name

Description

Type Type of storage,

Name

Name of the storage.

Appliance

Name of the appliance with which this storage is associated.

Used/Allocated

The amount of available and used storage. Hovering over the bar in this column displays the amount of space used versus the amount still available.

Status

Current status of the storage. Hovering over the icons displays the icon’s meaning.

Growth

Daily average percent change (increase / decrease) in the backup data store.

Data Reduction

Data reduction ratio (backup storage / bytes written).

Active jobs tile

This tile displays an at-a-glance view of all jobs currently running. This view includes the job name, the asset being protected, a progress bar, the percent of the job completed, the current status, and the length of time the job has been running.

To filter the list, click one of the following links in the lower portion of the tile:

All
Backup
Recover
Backup Copy

When a job displays in the tile, you can click the job name to see its progress at Jobs > Active Jobs. The job is highlighted and details display. After a job completes, it no longer displays in the Active Jobs tile.

Backup copy – hot targets tile

This tile displays the number of errors, protected assets, and unprotected assets. Bar graphs indicate backup performance.

Recover summary tile

This tile displays details about recent recovery jobs.