How To: Create A Simple Dashboard View; Performance Dashboard - Dell OpenManage Network Manager Client Manual

The icons in the dashboard's upper right corner let you edit Dashboard Properties with the
Dashboard Editor, or Save the dashboard with the other icon.
Tip
Hovering the cursor over the individual charts displays the charted attribute value(s) as popup tooltips. If
a graph has multiple lines, the data points for different lines are charted at different times (Dell
OpenManage Network Manager distributes polling to balance the load on its mediation service). Hover
the cursor over the time when a line's data point appears, and that line's value appears as a tooltip. It may
seem a device reporting the same value as others is not graphed properly, but mousing over the graph
displays the value.
How To:
Create a Simple Dashboard View
Follow these steps to create a simple dashboard view. See How to: Create a Custom Dashboard
View on page 282 for more complex monitor creation.
In the Dashboard Views portlet, right click to select New > Simple Dashboard.
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Select a name (for example SNMP Interface, to display the monitor configured in How
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to:Create an SNMP Interface Monitor on page 262).
Click Add Entity in the Entities panel.
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In the filter that appears, select the type: Interface.
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Filter for the IP address of the entity monitored in the previous SNMP interface monitor
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creation, select it and click Add Selection and Done.
Select the ifInErrors attribute, and click the right arrow in the Dashboard View Attributes
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panel.
Click Save. The dashboard view you have configured should appear in the portlet.
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To launch it, right-click and either Launch (Popup) or Launch (Maximize)
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If you want to convert this simple dashboard to a custom dashboard so you can alter it further,
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right-click and click Convert.

Performance Dashboard

This portlet lets you install and configure Dashboard Views as permanent displays rather than
portlets. When you initially install this portlet, it appears empty. The message "No Dashboard View
has been set:" appears with a Select button. Click that button to open the Dashboard View
Selection screen.
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