The Meraki Dashboard and its Systems Manager are the central hub from which network managers can survey the health of their networks, monitor current and historic network connections, view patch and security status, roll out new network policies across the company's whole infrastructure, and even schedule maintenance to happen automatically. The four most critical benefits of the Meraki dashboard and control panel are: 1. Centralized Network Management 2. Communication security on the network 3. High network availability 4. Automatic network upgrades.