Monitoring Client Status by Using the Dashboard

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Applies To: Forefront Endpoint Protection

You use the Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) dashboard to view key information you need in order to track, manage, and report on your organization’s antimalware health and status. For more information, see Dashboard Overview.

To view the list of computers to which the Forefront Endpoint Protection client failed to deploy

  1. In the Configuration Manager console, expand System Center Configuration Manager, expand Site Database, expand Computer Management, and then click Forefront Endpoint Protection.

    In the results pane, in the Client Deployment Status area, the statistics for client deployment display.

  2. In the Client Deployment Status area, next to Failed, click the number displayed.

    The Deployment Failed collection displays. This collection lists all the computers that returned a failure on the installation package for the FEP client software.

Note

For more information about collections in Configuration Manager, see About Collections (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=196182) in the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 documentation.

To view malware activity status

  • In the Configuration Manager console, expand System Center Configuration Manager, expand Site Database, expand Computer Management, and then click Forefront Endpoint Protection.

    In the results pane, in the Security Status area, the list of possible FEP security states displays.

    The Security Status list contains information about how many computers that had malware were cleaned, how many are actively infected, and how many computers need additional action.

About Forefront Endpoint Protection Configuration Baselines

The FEP dashboard contains a summary view of the FEP configuration baselines used to monitor and report information about the categories of computers in your organization. In the Forefront Endpoint Protection Baselines area, you see a summary view of each FEP configuration baseline and the number of computers compliant or not compliant with the configuration baseline.

For more information about the FEP configuration baselines, see Using Desired Configuration Management to Monitor Client Compliance.

Warning

If you enable the Use Reporting Services Reports for Admin console report links option in the Configuration Manager site report options, all the FEP Desired Configuration Manager baseline reports and report links at the bottom of the FEP dashboard will not work, and will return an error. To fix the reports, run the steps described in How to Copy Configuration Manager Reports to SQL Reporting Services (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207354) in the Configuration Manager documentation.