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# Use Default dashboards

Dashboards display predefined, user-defined custom dashboards, and templates.

## Prerequisites

Read Performance Dashboards.

To configure what appears in the dashboard, see Manage dashboard catalog.

The default dashboards require Administrator, Monitor, or Performance Monitor permissions.

## About this task

The full list of default dashboards is listed here. Some of these dashboards are presented depending on storage system type and configuration.

- System

  System Efficiency tab is not applicable for non-flash storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977.

  The System Performance Thresholds dashboard gives a visual overview to indicate whether system component utilization thresholds have been broken for hardware components. Individual bar charts can be double-clicked to view more information (including threshold information) (see Utilization Threshold charts).

- BE Directors (DA)
- External Directors
- Database
- Disk Groups
- Disk Technology
- FE Directors
- Hosts
- Port Groups
- RDF Directors
- Storage Containers
- Storage Groups
- Disk Group Tier
- Virtual Pool Tier
- Thin Pools

The following categories have an All tab where you can compare all instances of that type that exist on the storage system:

- BE directors (DA)
- RDF Directors
- Disk Groups
- Disk Technology
- External Directors

FE Directors

To save a default dashboard to a PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint file (depending on the configured report output), complete the following steps:

## Steps

1. Select a storage system.
2. Select Performance > Dashboards.
3. Expand the Default section.
4. Select a dashboard.
5. To run the report, click and select one of the following options:
   - Run report_type Report now
   - Run report_type Report now - with data
   - Run report_type Systems Overview Report

   The report file format, report_type, can be PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint, depending on the configured report output.

   The report is downloaded in the browser.
6. Alternatively, to schedule a report, click .

   Scheduled reports are listed in the Performance > Reports page.

   When a scheduled report is completed, it is saved to the default location: install_dir\SMAS\report\SPA\querydata.