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The SQL Elements dashboard Inventory Manager dashboard is the home page of the product. The dashboard provides an overview of your environment, a high level status of your registered instances, and health check recommendations for issues found across your environment. 

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Health Check Recommendations

SQL Elements Inventory Manager performs health checks on your registered instances to help you monitor the most important issues across your environment.

For more information about the health checks performed by SQL ElementsInventory Manager, refer to What Health Check Recommendations are available with SQL ElementsInventory Manager? section. 

On this section of the dashboard, SQL Elements Inventory Manager shows you the most critical health check recommendations for your environment, grouped by health check type, and ordered by level of criticality, where Level 3 is critical, Level 2 is warning, and Level 1 is informational.

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Warning
titleDismissing Health Check Recommendations

Dismissing a health check recommendation causes SQL Elements Inventory Manager to ignore this recommendation temporarily. You do not get alerts until the health check passes and then goes into an alert status again. 

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When you dismiss a health check recommendation, a dialog window opens to confirm this action, you can enable the option Do not show this warning again so that SQL Elements Inventory Manager does not prompt this warning message each time you dismiss a health check recommendation.

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You have three formats for exporting your reports: PDF , XLS, and XML . Choose one of these options and click Export.

Databases Graphs

SQL Elements Inventory Manager provides you bar graphs of the most important databases from your environment. You can get a view of the largest and busiest databases across your instances.

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On the right side of the dashboard, SQL Elements Inventory Manager provides a summary overview of the status and contents of your environment that includes:

  • The number of Instances that are up, down or critical.
  • The number of Health Recommendations.
  • The number of newly discovered instances. Click New Instances and SQL Elements Inventory Manager displays the list of recently discovered instances. For more information, go to Discovered Instances.
  • If the Auto-Registration option is off or on. You can click this option to enable or disable it. For more information, refer to Auto registration options.
  • A summary of your environment with the number of instances, servers, databases, data size, and log size. You can click these options to access the following information
    • Instances - Get a list of all managed instances.
    • Databases - Get a view of your databases count filtered by tags.
    • Data Size - Get a view of your data size filtered by tags.
    • Log Size - Get a view of your log size filtered by tags.
    • Disabled instances - Get a view of all your managed instances, ordered by status.
    • Available licenses - Access this option to view your current license, add, or buy another one. For more information, refer to Managing licenses.
  • A section of the most used Tags. You can click the pencil icon to manage all tags. For more information, refer to the Managing all tags section.
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Take into account that SQL Elements Inventory Manager rounds off data so there may be minor discrepancies between the size data displayed in the Summary and Instances section of the Dashboard.

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If you click on a tag name, SQL Elements Inventory Manager displays a view of your environment´s data size by instance, filtered with the respective tag. 

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