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 all information that 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).

OVERVIEW

Let’s click on the ERP tile (the one on the top left corner) to open his dashboard.

The ERP dashboard consists in 8 boxes that contain information on the tile. We call these boxes widgets.

You can easily switch between dashboards of the same group of color. Click on the left border of the dashboard. The list of dashboard belonging to the group will appears automatically.

A Dashboard has 2 modes:

• Visualisation
• Edition

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

Each widget will be updated visually every minutes.

• Auto Reload
  • By default, the refresh is automatic.
  • The buton is in blue.
  • Next to auto, the timer is indicating when the next reload will be done.
  • No Reload:
    • You can deactivate the refresh by clicking on Auto
    • The button and all similar button in widgets will become grey.

You can visually organize the dashboard as you want.

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

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.
    • Click on the name, type the new name and click outside of the grey box.
• Change the color (group) to which this dashboard belongs.
  • 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 WIDGET

First click on the widget you want to add. It will become highlighted in blue. You can scroll using left and right arrow to select the widget you are looking for.

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

This new widget will always appear on the right of the Dashboard, sticked to the top.

Depending on the widget, you will have an empty box or the default view.

To make it operational, you will need to configure the widget, that is very easy to do (see next chapter).

MOVE A WIDGET

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