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title: "Dashboard Tab"
description: "The Dashboard tab is the primary web UI workspace that provides an overall picture of the monitoring configuration. This tab displays a list of configuration actions that you must perform to start monitoring your VMware environment: Install and..."
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# Dashboard Tab

The **Dashboard** tab is the primary web UI workspace that provides an overall picture of the monitoring configuration.

This tab displays a list of configuration actions that you must perform to start monitoring your VMware environment:

- Install and register a Collector — for instructions on how to install Veeam Collectors, see the [Installation Guide](installation_guide.md). If no Collectors are installed, you will not be able to connect any VMware servers.

  [![Click the image to zoom in](images/dashboard_tab_vmware_no_collectors.png "Click the image to zoom in")](images/dashboard_tab_vmware_no_collectors.png){.toggle scale=65}

- Add a VMware server for monitoring — create a connection to a VMware server (either a vCenter Server, or stand-alone vSphere host) that you are planning to monitor. Click the **Add** button and follow the **Add VMware Server** wizard.

  [![Click the image to zoom in](images/dashboard_tab_vmware.png "Click the image to zoom in")](images/dashboard_tab_vmware.png){.toggle scale=65}

After the obligatory actions are performed, the web UI will display a list of additional configuration actions that you may want to perform for monitoring your VMware environment:

- Enable or disable monitoring for specific hosts (either stand-alone hosts, or hosts managed by the connected vCenter Server). Click the **Configure** button to open the **VMware Servers** tab. Use the server hierarchy on the left to enable or disable monitoring of specific hosts: clear the check box to disable monitoring; select the check box to enable monitoring.
- Group Collectors into high-availability clusters (monitoring groups) and distribute monitoring load between these groups to ensure continuous delivery of monitoring data. Click the **Configure** button to open the **Veeam Collectors** tab. Use links in the **Actions** pane on the right to create monitoring groups and balance the monitoring load.

  [![Click the image to zoom in](images/dashboard_tab_upd.png "Click the image to zoom in")](images/dashboard_tab_upd.png){.toggle scale=65}

The **Current Status** section provides information on the current configuration status, including:

- The number and status of configured connections to VMware servers
- The number and status of monitored vSphere hosts
- The number and status of Veeam Collectors registered with the VE Service
- The number of remaining license sockets, Veeam MP license edition and license expiry date. To view license information or update the expired license, click the **License** link. For more information, see [Checking and Updating Veeam MP License](checking_and_updating_veeam_license.md)

You can also click the **Rebuild Full Topology** and **Set Collection Interval** top links to perform additional operational and configuration activities:

- **Rebuild Full Topology** — triggering re-discovery of the VMware topology in the OpsMgr (for all Collectors in all monitoring groups).
- **Set Collection Interval** — changing baseline data collection interval to control the granularity of the published data.

## Resources

The **Resources** section contains a set of links to online and offline documentation and Veeam MP resources.