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Monitoring and Reporting in ACS
The Monitoring and Reports drawer appears in the primary web interface window and contains the 
Launch Monitoring & Report Viewer option.
The Monitoring & Report Viewer provides monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting capabilities for 
the ACS servers in your network. You can extract consolidated log, configuration, and diagnostic data 
from one or more ACS servers for advanced...

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  Authentication Records and Details
Support for non-English characters (UTF-8)—You can have non-English characters in:
–Syslog messages—Configurable attribute value, user name, and ACS named configuration 
objects
–GUI input fields
–Query pages
–Reports and Interactive Viewer
–Alarms
–Dashboard lookup
–Failure reason text
NoteIn Monitoring and Reports drawer pages, you can use the page...

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  Dashboard Pages
NoteThese tabs are customizable, and you can modify or delete the following tabs.
General—The General tab lists the following:
–Five most recent alarms—When you click the name of the alarm, a dialog box appears with the 
details and the status of the alarm. You can update the information in the Status tab of this dialog 
box to track the alarm. See Table 12-5 for a...

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–Authentication Snapshot—Provides a snapshot of authentications in the graphical and tabular 
formats for up to the past 30 days. In the graphical representation, the field based on which the 
records are grouped together is plotted on the X-axis and the authentications are plotted on the 
Y- a x i s .  
The tabular representation provides the Category; Pass...

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Figure 11-1 Portlets
Top 5 Alarms and My Favorite Reports appear in separate windows. You can edit each of these portlets 
separately.
To edit a portlet, click the edit button ( ) at the upper-right corner of the window. The Monitoring & 
Report Viewer allows you to customize the information in the portlets to suit your needs. You can add, 
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Related Topic
Dashboard Pages, page 11-2
Running Authentication Lookup Report, page 11-6
Running Authentication Lookup Report
When you run an Authentication Lookup report, consider the following:
If you have provided the Username or MAC Address value in the format aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff, an 
authentication report is run for this MAC address.
If you have...

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Step 5Click Add Page.
A new tab of your choice is created. You can add the applications that you most frequently monitor in 
this tab
Adding Applications to Tabs
To add an application to a tab:
Step 1From the Monitoring & Report Viewer > choose Monitoring and Reports > Dashboard.
The Dashboard page appears.
Step 2Select the tab to which you want to add...

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Changing the Dashboard Layout
You can change the look and feel of the Dashboard. ACS provides you with nine different in-built 
layouts. To choose a different layout:
Step 1From the Monitoring & Report Viewer, choose Monitoring and Reports > Dashboard.
The Dashboard page appears.
Step 2Select the tab whose layout you wish to change.
Step 3Click the...

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Managing Alarms
The Monitoring feature in ACS generates alarms to notify you of critical system conditions. The 
monitoring component retrieves data from ACS. You can configure thresholds and rules on this data to 
manage alarms. 
Alarm notifications are displayed in the web interface and you can get a notification of events through 
e-mail and Syslog messages. ACS filters duplicate alarms by default.
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System Alarms
System alarms notify you of critical conditions encountered during the execution of the ACS Monitoring 
and Reporting viewer. System alarms also provide informational status of system activities, such as data 
purge events or failure of the log collector to populate the View database. 
You cannot configure system alarms, which are predefined. However, you do have the...