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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 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.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

You can visually organize the dashboard as you want , like : changing the layout of widgets, add widgets,...

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Change a tile in edit mode

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The

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.
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  • 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.
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  • Move widgets:
    • Go over a widget and simply drag it to the location you have chosen.
    • While draging the widget,
 
  • Add a widgets
  

 

 

 

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