Monitoring Dashboards

You can organize and present events displayed by data monitors and query viewers on the dashboard. Basic tasks include loading and displaying dashboards; inspecting events; using zoom, slide show, or manipulating the views in various ways; working with dashboard layouts; saving dashboards, and so on.

Where: Navigator > Resources > Dashboards

To load dashboards:

  1. Select Views > Show Dashboard to open the Load Dashboard dialog box.

  2. Expand the dashboard groups to locate the dashboards you want to include in your display.

  3. Select the checkboxes next to the dashboards you want to include.

  4. Click OK.

To display a dashboard:

Right-click a dashboard and select Show Dashboard.

To inspect events in dashboards:

  1. Open a dashboard containing events.

  2. Select the events, right-click, and select Show Event Details for Last N Events data monitors or Show details for other types of data monitors.

You can drill down on grid, graph, or chart views.

Tip: By default on a data monitor, the displayed channel uses the same columns as the default Standard Field Set.

If a custom field set is defined for the data monitor Select Field Set option, the drill-down channel will use that field set. (See Data Monitors for information on creating data monitors and defining settings for them.)

You can add or remove columns in the active channel. To do so, right-click on the active channel column headers to get the Customize Columns option.

For example, to investigate a data monitor pie chart display, either double-click the chart, or right-click and select Analyze in Channel > Create Channel and choose a create channel option, as shown (the menu option for a pie chart display of a query viewer may slightly vary with an additional menu level).

An active channel is displayed showing more detail about the events or resources in the original data monitor or query viewer display. If the channel came from a data monitor, the channel uses the field set columns defined for use in the data monitor Select Field Set option. If no field set is defined, the data monitor uses standard field set columns.

To edit dashboard elements:

Right-click in the element and select <Dashboard element>Edit.

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To drill down to other resources:

If your dashboard contains data monitors and query viewers that have drilldowns, you can view these drilldowns by right-clicking the particular dashboard element (data monitor or query viewer) and selecting Drilldown > [drilldown name] from the context menu. The Console then displays the selected element's edit panel at the Drilldowns tab.

If the selected dashboard element does not have a drilldown, you are presented with the option to create one for that element. See Adding a Drilldown.

To display dashboards in a slideshow rotation:

  1. In the Viewer panel, select Views > Slideshow > Interval in the Console's menu.

  2. Use Interval to set the number of seconds to pause on each dashboard.

  3. Select Views > Slideshow > Start, or use the toolbar button , to begin the slide show.

Slide shows appear full-window. Also, Tile Best Fit is the best display choice in slideshow dashboards so all data monitors are visible. Use Views > Slideshow > Stop, or the toolbar button, to end a slideshow and return to the previous view.

To rearrange elements in dashboard layouts:

Drag and drop the elements on the desired location in the dashboard. You can also click an element’s header and drag it to another location.

To use dashboard right-click menu options:

Right-click a dashboard element in a dashboard to use the Dashboard subcommands on its context menu. The nature of the element (data from a data monitor or query viewer) determines which commands are applicable and enabled.

See Dashboard Context Menu Commands for descriptions of options.

To zoom in and out of dashboards:

Right-click a dashboard element and choose Dashboard>Zoom In or Dashboard>Zoom Out.

To fit dashboard elements:

  1. Right-click a dashboard element.

  2. Select Dashboard>Fit in Dashboard.

To change dashboard layouts:

  1. Click the Layout button at the lower-right corner of the dashboard in the Viewer panel

  2. Select a tab or tile option.

  3. Right-click and select Save Dashboard.

To close a dashboard:

In a dashboard, right-click and select Close Dashboard.