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Administrator Guide
Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
Administration
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Dashboards
The Dashboards page lets you create and configure widget-based dashboards that provide information about your network. The dashboards created here will show on the Guardian home page, and give an overview of the monitored environment.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
  - Administration
    - Administration page
      The administration page lets a user with administrator privileges configure settings and do other tasks.
    - Settings
      - Security control panel
        The Security control panel page shows an overview of the current status of the learning process and lets you configure the features that manage the: learning, security profile, zones, alerts tuning, and alert closing options.
      - Features control panel
        The Features control panel page shows an overview of the current status of system features configuration and lets you fine tune specific values.
      - Users management
        The Users management page shows all the pages that you need to let you manage authentication and authorization policies for users and groups.
      - CLI
        The CLI page lets you change configuration parameters and perform troubleshooting activities.
      - Dashboards
        The Dashboards page lets you create and configure widget-based dashboards that provide information about your network. The dashboards created here will show on the Guardian home page, and give an overview of the monitored environment.
        Create a dashboard
        You can use the Dashboards page to load a dashboard that has been created previously.
        Configure a dashboard
        Once a dashboard has been created, you can configure it.
        Select a dashboard
        You can use the Dashboards page to load a dashboard that has been created previously.
        Import a dashboard
        You can use the Dashboards page to import an existing dashboard.
        Export a dashboard
        You can use the Dashboards page to export an existing dashboard.
      - Threat Intelligence
        The Threat Intelligence page lets you manage packet rules, YARA rules, Sigma rules, structured threat information expression (STIX) indicators and vulnerabilities to provide detailed threat information.
      - Data model
        The Data model page lets you create a custom field to the Nodes (All-In-One CMC only) and Assets tables. A custom field lets you add information that might be relevant to your organization, and cannot be extracted from network traffic.
      - Data integration
      - Firewall integration
        The Firewall integrations page shows all the firewall integrations and lets you add new ones.
      - Credentials manager
        The Credentials manager is a tool that lets you centralize the management of monitored endpoints to make it easier to create, delete, or update the credentials that are needed to access those endpoints.
      - Zone configurations
        The Zone configurations page shows all the zone configurations in your environment and lets you add new zone configurations and edit them.
      - Synchronization settings
        The Synchronization settings page lets you customize the parameters related to Vantage or Central Management Console (CMC).
      - Alert playbooks
    - System
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

Dashboards

The Dashboards page lets you create and configure widget-based dashboards that provide information about your network. The dashboards created here will show on the Guardian home page, and give an overview of the monitored environment.

Dashboards page — Figure 1. Dashboards page

Table 1. Default widgets
Widget	Description
Environment information	This provides a high level view of your network, in terms of the number of assets, nodes, links, protocols and variables
Asset overview	Assets, grouped by Purdue level
Alert flow over time	Alert risk charted over time
Latest alerts	Latest alerts (the most recent being first)
Failed assertions	List of failed assertions

Import

This lets you Import a dashboard.

New dashboard

This lets you Create a dashboard.

Dashboard selector

This dropdown lets you select from dashboards that already exist.

+ Add row

This lets you add a new row to the dashboard.

History

This lets you revert to a previous version of the dashboard.

Delete

This lets you delete the current dashboard.

Edit

This lets you edit the name and the group of users who can see this dashboard when they log in to the Central Management Console (CMC).

Discard

This lets you discard the change that you have made to the dashboard.

Clone

This lets you clone the current dashboard to make a new one.

Export

This lets you export the current dashboard in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

Save

This lets you save the changes.

+ Add widget

This lets you add one, or more, widgets to the dashboard, that you can then configure.