Understanding the Risk badge

Since Health is looking at the current issues in the environment, the Risk badge is looking at future issues and health of the environment or object. If there are no immediate issues to address from the Health badge, Risk should be looked at next.

As was the case with the Health badge, the Risk badge is now derived from Alert and symptom definitions.

There are four minor badges that relate to Risk; Capacity, Time Remaining, Stress, and Compliance.

Note

The accuracy of Risk, Capacity Remaining, and Time Remaining for your environment are heavily affected by what policies are in effect. Capacity Management will be discussed in detail in Chapter 7, Capacity Management Made Easy.

The Capacity Remaining badge

The Capacity Remaining badge shows the percentage of usable capacity that has not yet been consumed, therefore an object with a score of 100 has all of its Capacity Remaining, and vice versa; an object having a score of 0 would indicate that there is no capacity available...