It provides a customizable, at-a-glance overview of the activity on your network.

It is the launching point for conducting deeper investigations in Workspaces (see Chapter 6, Interactive Reports (Workspaces)) or the Session Explorer (see Chapter 8, Session Explorer), and for resuming investigations-in-progress.

It provides access to the contents of scheduled Reports (see Chapter 7, Scheduled Reports) and the list of Alert notifications (see Chapter 9, Alerts and Notifications) .

It provides access to the user-specific preference panels.

For administrative users, it provides access to the system-wide preference control panels, as well as the user administration control panel.