Creating Custom Widgets For The Dashboard - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

The Dashboard displays six widgets. These widgets include each of the Status screens (alerts, devices,
ports, UPS, RPC and environmental status) and a custom script screen. The admin user can configure
which of these widget is to be displayed where:
Go to the Dashboard layout panel and select which widget is to be displayed in each of the six
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display locations (widget1 ...6)
Click Apply
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Note:
The Alerts widget is a new screen that shows the current alerts status. When an alert gets
triggered, a corresponding .XML file is created in /var/run/alerts/. The dashboard scans all these files and
displays a summary status in the alerts widget. When an alert is deleted, the corresponding .XML files
that belong to that alert are also deleted.
To configure what is to be displayed by each widget:
Go to the Configure widgets panel and configure each selected widget (e.g. specify which UPS
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status is to be displayed on the UPS widget or the maximum number of Managed Devices to be
displayed in the devices widget
Click Apply
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Note:
Dashboard configuration is stored in the /etc/config/config.xml file. Each configured dashboard
will increase the config file. If this file gets too big, you can run out of memory space on the
Console Server
.

12.5.2 Creating Custom Widgets for the Dashboard

To run a custom script inside a dashboard widget:
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