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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.For example, you can

dedicated

dedicate a Dashboard to monitor an ERP, containing all information that may help you to be sure that the ERP of

my

the company is running well

.

:

Summary status of important elements (like hosts, database,fire wall, ...)
The complete map of the ERP elements displaying dependance

relation ship

relationship between elements.
In case the ERP is down, the list of roots problems that need to be investigated first investigated.
Graphics, SLA, ...

OVERVIEW

A dashboard is always linked to a tile of the hive.

You can access to a dashboard by clicking on the tile representing it in the hive.

In our exemple, the ERP dashboard consists in 8 10 boxes that contain information of the concept we want to monitor.

We call these boxes

widgets

Widgets (see

widgets

widgets chapter

for

for more details).

You can easily switch between dashboards of the same color group of color.

Click on the left border of the dashboard.
The list of dashboards belonging to the group will appears automatically.

A Dashboard has 2 modes:

Visualisation Visualization (view monitoring information)
Edition (organize the dashboard)

When you open a dashboard, you are in Visualization mode as default.

Visualization mode

Each widget will be updated visually every minutes.

Preview the tile that summarizes the dashboard

The tile present in hive is displayed on top left
The tile is update in realtime after each modification
Its behavior is exactly the same as that described in the chapter Hive

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The calculation is displayed graphically:

- - Each widget used to calculate status and context is displayed to the right of the tile as a thumbnail containing:
    - Its name
    - Its status/context
    - a "minus" button to remove the thumbnail quickly
  - The result status will be the worst state in the list of widgets.
  - If too many widgets make up the status and can not be displayed in the area, a scrollbar will be added.

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Auto Reload

By default, the refresh is automatic and will occur every 60 secondes.

The buton

When in automatic mode, the button is in blue.
Next to auto, the timer

is indicating when

displays the remaining time to the next reload

will be done

.

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No Reload

It may be useful to prevent refreshing a dashboard for analyzing current data:

You can deactivate the refresh by clicking on Auto
The button and all similar button in widgets will become grey.

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Force a Reload

Click on the left part of the auto button (the refresh button)

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Enter in Edit Mode

Click the “edit button” on the top left corner.

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Edit Mode

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You can visually organize the dashboard as you want .

In order to change : changing the layout of widgets, add widgets, …, you must enter in the edit mode....

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Change a tile in edit mode

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The

Click the “edit button” on the top left corner .

Being in the edit mode includes some specific access:

On the top left corner, you can:

Change the name of the

Dashboard.

dashboard

Click on the name, type the new name and click outside of the grey box.

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Change the color

(group) to which this dashboard belongs.

of the dashboard

Just click on the color you want to set or set it to no group.
The triangle under the color will show you which one is selected.

On the top right corner:

OK: Leave the edit mode and validate all modifications done on the dashboard.
Cancel: Leave the edit mode, but modifications won’t be taken into consideration.
Move widgets:
- Simply drag it to the location you have chosen.
- Add widgets, Edit or remove widgets ((see nexts chapters for more details).

ADDING A WIDGETFirst click on the widget you want to add. It will become highlighted in blue.

The background color of the title will also change.

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Add a widgets

First, in the top bar, click on a widget type.
- It will be highlighted in blue.
- You can scroll using left and right arrow to select the widget you are looking for.

Then clicking on the button “

- Clicking on the “+ ADD” button located on the top of the blue area, will add the widget on the Dashboard.

This

A new widget will always

appear

appears on the right of the Dashboard, sticked to the top.
Depending on the widget type, you will have an empty box or the default view.
To

make it

be operational,

you will need to configure

the

widget, that is very easy to do (see next

new widget needs to be configured (a very easy task : see widgets chapter).

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Move widgets

Go over a widget and simply drag it to a new location.
While dragging the widget, the other widgets will move down to make place.

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Edit and Remove widgets

Theres points are described in the widgets chapter.

Resize a widget

Some widgets are resizable:
- 360
- Dependency Graph
- Root problems
- Graphes
- Web page
They will be surrounded by a blue border.
- When placing the mouse over, a blue triangle will also be displayed in the bottom right corner.
To initiate the resize, place the mouse on the border of the widget, click and move the mouse to the new size.
- Each widget as a minimum size

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Save or cancel the modifications

Your changes will not be taken into account until you validate them.

Button OK: Leave the edit mode and validate all modifications done on the dashboard.
Button Cancel: Leave the edit mode, but modifications won’t be taken into consideration.

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If at least one change has been made, a confirmation window will be displayed

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MOVE A WIDGET

You can move each widgets and place them were you desire by simply dragging them.

RESIZE A WIDGET

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