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Scoreboards and Dashboards

Unicenter MP provides two types of views, scoreboards and dashboards. Both views are designed to display a high-level, summarized view of your systems, but they differ in the type of data they gather and the way they present it. The following descriptions describe these differences.

• A scoreboard is a summarized view that displays statistics for the objects stored in the Management Database, WorldView, or DSM. A scoreboard can include counts for a number of objects in a particular state or a number of events that have occurred during a particular interval. You can access the Portal Explorer from a scoreboard to drill down into an agent and view DSM-managed objects.
• A dashboard displays real-time information from CA NSM agents. A dashboard lets you combine (on one screen) multiple metrics from one or many agents and one or many hosts. Each metric is presented in an individual tile. Dashboards poll the data from the agents and show the metrics "as is." The dashboard is not a summarized view, and it is not just presenting statistics.