Cisco Cisco Identity Services Engine 2.1 Manual Técnica

Context Directory Services is a new feature introduced in ISE 2.1. Traditionally, the ednpoints
information can be accessed from Administration > Identity Management > Identities >
Endpoints. The information shown here used to be very limited and not very user friendly as the
number of tabs increased, it used to get more congested and hard to view certain colums. To
alleviate these two disadvantages (the limited information and lack of user friendliness), Context
Directory Service provides you with a new tab in ISE 2.1, Context Visibility. This section gives
you ability to view almost every bit of information regarding the endpoints in the network and does
it in a user friendly manner using charts and customizable columns.

Both of these services make use of the same dashlets to present the information, but in a
customizable manner. A dashlet is a small window on a dashboard which has information about
certain category with a set of attributes and a chart displaying information about those attributes. A
sample dashlet is shown here :

Every dashlet has a title, set of categories of attributes, a button to open this dashlet in a new tab,
a button to refresh the data and in some cases, a button to delete the dashlet from the dashboard
as well. Almost all the dashlets have a circular chart which provides the information about the
attributes of the selected category in percentages. A category can be selected by clicking on the
set of attributes present in a dashlet below the title. Hovering over a section of the chart shows the
number of endpoints associated with that attributes in the center of the chart. Clicking on a section
of the chart opens up a new tab. In this tab, relevant dashlets and a tabular grid with all the
information about those endpoints associated with that attribute are shown.