Dashboard Tab

The Dashboard tab is a new feature of Colasoft Capsa (visible only when the analysis profile root in the Node Explorer window selected). It provides a great many of statistic graphs from global network to a specific node. You are able to as well create almost any kind of graph based on any MAC address, IP address and protocol, etc. With these graphs, you can easily find out anomalies of the network and get useful statistics.

The Dashboard tab contains the following components:

Toolbar

By default, there are five graphs provided. Graphs take a lot of space and too many graphs in a single page will make the tab very crowded and hard to view. Therefore, Colasoft Capsa allows you to organize graphs in different tabs to get a better view.

• New Tab: Click to create a new graph tab.
• Rename Tab: Click to give the selected graph tab a new name.
• Remove Tab: Click to delete the selected graph tab.
• Reset Default: Click to reset the Dashboard tab. Be careful of click this button that all of your created graphs in the Dashboard will be deleted.

Context Menu

The pop-up menu contains the following items:

• Pause Refresh: Click to pause graph refresh.
• 3D View: Click to display the graph in 3D style.
• Legend Box: Click to set legend display options.
• Line Chart: Click to display the graph in line style.
• Bar Chart: Click to display the graph in bar style.
• Pie Chart: Click to display the graph in pie style.
• Titles: Click to set titles display options.
• Indicatrix: Click to show a horizontal line which moves with mouse pointer to compare values.
• Top Number: Click to set the statistic item number.
• Sampling Values: Click to set the statistic value type: Cumulative Value and Last Second Value.
• Refresh Interval: Click to set graph refresh interval.
• Save Graph...: Click to save the current graph to disk.

The display items are described as figure below:

Change Graph Position

Graph positions are changeable. You can click and drag the head of a graph to rearrange its position go get a better view.

You can read Creating Graphs to learn how to create a graph in the Dashboard tab.