Generally speaking, the aim of a Dashboard is to contain all information that will help you to monitor a bunch of elements, a concept or whatever you decide. It is only a visual container which will help you to be more efficient in your monitoring tasks.
In the admin hive example, in case of the ERP Dashboard, it contains For example, you can dedicated a Dashboard to monitor an ERP, containing all information that may help me to be sure that the ERP of my company is running well. So I will have for example information on the element itself, but also on the switch that lead to the ERP, and as it’s flexible, I will be able to add by my own everything I assume to be relevant (Shinken Enterprise manage any dependency).
- Summary status of important elements (like hosts, database,fire wall, ...)
- The complete map of the ERP elements displaying dependance relation ship between elements.
- In case the ERP is down, the list of roots problems that need to be first investigated.
- Graphics, SLA, ...
OVERVIEW
Let’s click on the ERP tile (the one on the top left corner) to open his dashboard.
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