Central Management Server Home Page

The home page of the GFI LanGuard Central Management Server console offers two graphical overviews of relevant information collected from deployed GFI LanGuard instances at remote locations. To display the home page click Home in the top navigation.

The GFI LanGuard Central Management Server Home page

Toggle between the following views:

OPTION DESCRIPTION
Sites Overview

A map displays GFI LanGuard instances that have been connected to the GFI LanGuard Central Management Server. High, Medium and Low markers define the vulnerability status of the sites at a glance, while an additional filter can be toggled to display the following:

  • Vulnerability Status
  • Auditing Status
  • Patch Management Status
  • License Usage
Top Sites

The Top Sites view offers an in-depth look at the status of top sites. The interactive info-graphic offers the following 4 nodes:

  • Vulnerability Status - View the number of vulnerabilities found on a site, grouped by severity. This area enables you to determine a site's vulnerability rating with high, medium and low percentages. You can also filter data by:
  • number of high vulnerability nodes
  • percentage of high vulnerability nodes
  • number of nodes
  • Patch Management Status - View sites that are missing updates. Filter by:
  • number of nodes having missing updates
  • percentage of nodes having missing updates
  • number of nodes
  • Auditing Status - identify how many audits have been performed in top sites grouped by time. Filter data by the following:
  • number of nodes not scanned last week
  • percentage of nodes not scanned last week
  • number of nodes not scanned last 24 hours
  • percentage of nodes not scanned last 24 hours
  • number of nodes
  • License Usage - Explore top sites by their license status. Available filters are:
  • license usage
  • license limit
  • number of nodes
  • expiry date

NOTE

The sites displayed by the GFI LanGuard Central Management Server represent GFI LanGuard instances that have been set up within each GFI LanGuard deployment. The GFI LanGuard Central Management Server is unable to detect any sites automatically. To view or edit details of connected sites refer to: Managing Sites.

The bottom part of the home page contains three widgets with additional information, listed in the following table:

Option Description
Notifications A list of events describing actions carried out or problems that have been identified by GFI LanGuard Central Management Server, for example when a service is not running.
Security Sensors Displaying information related to security issues such as missing updates or malware protection issues. Click any item in the list to drill down further details.
Missing Updates / Operating Systems / Software Toggle between Missing Updates, Operating Systems and Software view to obtain quick information about what operating systems are running within your network or which important patches need to be deployed. Click Show all to be redirected to the dashboards.