Finding Your Way Around
Two controls set the scope for almost every number in Insights: the device group you are looking at, and the period you are reporting over.
Insights opens on the KPI page.
The header
The header carries the page links, the Ask AI button, a notifications bell for new versions of the app, and your account menu.
The device group selector
Almost everything in Insights is scoped to one device group. The selector reports the number of devices and security rules in the selected group, and the list is searchable.
It starts on device group 1, the all-devices group. Your choice follows you from page to page for the rest of the session, and goes back to all devices when you reload. The groups offered are the ones your SIP permissions authorize, not every group that exists. Device groups explains where groups come from, and why the scoping matters.
Two pages work differently:
- Change replaces the device group selector with a workflow selector, because Policy Planner numbers are counted per workflow rather than per device group.
- Best Practices has its own device group selector, which does not follow the shared one. Set it separately.
The trend range
The trend range sets the period a page reports over. A change figure compares the start of that period with the current value. Widening the range doesn't add to a total. It moves the point you are compared against.
| Label | Period |
|---|---|
| 1w | The last week |
| 1mo | The last month |
| 6mo | The last six months |
| 1yr | The last year |
| Max | Everything since you registered |
A range unlocks once your registration reaches a set age. 1mo opens a week after you register, 6mo after a month, 1yr after six months, and Max after a year. Until then, Insights reports how much data exists so far.
The range applies to KPI, All Metrics, Change, Revision Analytics and Network Object Groups. Best Practices has its own set — Last Month, Q/Q, 1yr and Max. Ask AI has none.
The pages
| Page | What it shows |
|---|---|
| KPI | The metrics you checked, as tiles, under a carousel of AI-written observations. Starts with a default set until you choose your own. |
| All Metrics | Every metric in one table — current value, how you rank against other FireMon customers, and change over the period. This is where you check the metrics you want on KPI and set their order. |
| Best Practices | FireMon Best Practices Assessment results by category, each category's score against the customer average, and Overall Posture by fiscal quarter. |
| Change | Ticket volume, open tickets, and how long changes take to complete and verify. Needs a Policy Planner license. |
| Revision Analytics | Rules added, removed and modified over the period, broken down by device, and your net growth against the customer baseline. |
| Network Object Groups | Object group counts and group hygiene over the period, broken down by device. |
Using Insights covers each of them in full.
Ask AI
The button at the right of the top row opens the assistant over whatever page you are on, so you keep your place. Ask it about rules, devices, network paths, compliance results, metrics or Policy Planner, in your own words. See Ask AI.
It is labeled Ask Policy Manager AI. Where your organization has turned it off, it is unavailable and Insights gives the reason.
Your account menu
The account menu holds:
- Theme — Light, Dark, or System, which follows your operating system.
- About — version information.
- Sign Out — ends the Insights session. Insights and SIP sign in separately, so leaving Insights signed in leaves the next person looking at your data.
Getting back to Security Manager
Metric detail pages, Revision Analytics and Network Object Groups each carry a button that opens SIP in a new tab with a query already filled in, so you can go from a number that moved to the rules behind it. Insights and Security Manager explains where those links land, and what you do at each end.