Dashboards

Get started with creating dashboards and adding widgets specially designed to optimize your user experience. Then benefit from data visualization options to display and monitor your resources in real time.

Activating the Dashboards feature

Access to the Dashboards feature is not managed at the user level but through access groups or ACLs (Access Control Lists). You allow users to access the feature by granting rights to the ACL to which they belong (read more about ACLs).

Configure the ACL

You must be logged into the monitoring as an administrator.

In this example, we will create a new ACL called Dashboards users. This ACL will contain users belonging to the Guests user group.

1. Go to AdministrationACLMenus Access.

2. Click the Add button. This opens the Add an ACL form.

3. Name the ACL Definition. In this example: Dashboards users.

4. Select Enabled in the Status parameters.

5. Select the Linked Groups to include in this ACL. In this example: Guests.

6. In the Accessible Pages section, expand the Home menu, then the Dashboards one. This displays the list of profiles to select.

   • Viewer: can only view dashboards to which they have access.
   • Creator: can create and edit dashboards to which they have access.
   • Administrator: can access and edit all dashboards.

7. Select the profile to be set for this ACL. In this example: Viewer.

8. Click Save to confirm your changes.

Creating your first dashboard

You must be logged into the monitoring system with an administrator or a user account with creator permissions.

To create a dashboard, navigate to HomeDashboards.

1. In the Dashboard library page, click the Create a dashboard button. This opens the Create dashboard modal.
2. Name the dashboard and enter a description if needed.
3. Click Create to confirm the creation.

Your dashboard is now added! You can directly start adding widgets.

Add widgets

Your dashboard must be open in edition mode.

• If this is your very first widget, click the Add a widget area.
• If not, click the + Add a widget on the right of the interface.

Most of the widgets usually follow these steps:

• Step 1: Select the type of widget. The widget parameters then depend on the widget you select.
• Step 2: Select resources.
• Step 3: Select metrics.

Make sure to save your changes. If you leave without saving your dashboard, changes will be permanently lost.

More actions

Click the three vertical dots menu at the top right of the widget to edit it or to access more actions:

• Refresh
• Duplicate
• Delete widget

In edition mode, you can easily organize your widgets by moving or resizing them. Make sure to save your changes.

Link to Resources Status page

From the dashboard, you can click a screen pictogram at the top right of a widget: this button allows you to See more on the Resources Status page. It opens a new tab on the Resources Status page, with detailed information regarding the specific widget.

Managing dashboards

You must be in the Dashboard library page to get an overview of your dashboards.

Edit a dashboard

Update properties

Click the gear button at the bottom right of the dashboard to update its name and description.

Edit dashboard widgets

1. Click the dashboard to open it in view mode.
2. Click Edit dashboard to access and manage widgets in edition mode.

Delete a dashboard

Click the trash button at the bottom left of the dashboard to delete it. Then confirm the deletion.

Share a dashboard

You can share dashboards using the Manage access rights interface.

About access rights

You are using the Dashboards feature with a viewer or an editor profile:

• Viewers: can only view dashboards you share with them.
• Editors: can view and edit dashboards you share with them.

Manage access rights

1. Click the share button at the bottom right of the dashboard.
2. In the Add contact dropdown list, select the user to add.
3. Select either Viewer or Editor profile.
4. Click the + button to add it.
5. Repeat the action for each user you want to add.
6. Click the Update button to save your changes.

The users you have just added now have access to your dashboard sharing, according to the profile you have set for them.

Use the Copy link feature to share the dashboard URL directly with users who have access to your platform.

List of widgets

Widget	Description
Business Activity Diagram	Displays graphically a business activity hierarchy of KPIs and lets you navigate through it.
Clock/Timer	Displays the time according to the selected time zone, or a timer.
Generic text	Allows you to add free text to your dashboards (section titles, information, etc.).
Group monitoring	Displays the distribution of current statuses on selected groups of resources, as a table.
Map	Allows you to select and visualize a map created from i-Vertix Maps.
Metrics graph	Displays metrics for a given time period.
Resource table	Displays data on resource status and events, centralized in a table.
Single metric	Displays the value of a single metric as a text, a gauge or a bar chart.
Status chart	Displays the distribution of current statuses on selected resources, as a chart.
Status grid	Displays the current status of selected resources, as a grid.
Top/bottom	Displays the top or bottom x hosts, for a selected metric.
Topology Map	Allows you to select and visualize a topology map created from i-Vertix Topology Maps.
Web page	Displays a web page.

Dashboard playlists

It is also possible to create dashboard playlists, which are used to present a slideshow of selected dashboards.

Create a dashboard playlist

To configure new or list all dashboard playlist, navigate to the configuration list by selecting 1 Playlists on the top right of the Dashboard library page. You can also 3 filter all available playlists.

Click 2 Add Playlist to create a new playlist.

General playlist information

• Name:* insert a descriptive name for your playlist
• Description: you can also insert an additional description to better describe the playlist you are about to create
• Rotation:* choose the time interval for the slideshow duration
• Selected dashboards:* select all dashboards you want to present

Share playlist

You can share the playlist with other users or users which are part of contactgroups. You can choose between two different roles: viewer or editor. The roles define the granted permissions to the users.

After inserting all the required information, you can save your playlist.

View a dashboard playlist

You can 2 edit and 3 delete an already existing playlist.

To view the playlist, click the 1 play button. You will be redirected to the slideshow.

• 1 Name of the currently displayed playlist
• 2 Switch between other playlists
• 3 Pause the automatic rotation of dashboards contained in playlist or return to previous or go to next dashboard
• 4 View all dashboards contained in the playlist
• 5 Return to the dashboard library
• 6 Return to the playlist configuration