Owners Manual

Dashboard Views | Performance Monitoring
OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 427
The legend of devices and/or attributes that appear in each graph also provides interactive features.
Hover your cursor over a device or attribute color in the legend and only that device or attribute
appears onscreen. By default all such legend color squares contain checks. Uncheck the ones you do
not want to see. The legend can appear consolidated or for each chart, as is appropriate to the
distribution of charted devices and attributes.
If no data is available for an attribute in a dashboard, no panel appears for that data.
Changing Dashboard Time/Date Format
Control panel’s Redcell > Application Settings screen has a Performance Chart Settings panel
where you can set the
Day Format and Minute Format so dashboards display time (the x axis) in a
meaningful way. If you want European date formats (day/month/year rather than month/day/year),
this is available if the language/location settings of the operating system on the computer running
OpenManage Network Manager makes it available.
In Control Panel’s
Performance Chart Settings panel, you can also enable Threshold display in
dashboards and elect to
Restrict Y-Axis Range to data range with checkboxes.
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 429 for more complex monitor creation.
1 In the Dashboard Views portlet, right-click to select New > Simple Dashboard.
2 Select a name (for example SNMP Interface, to display the monitor configured in How
to:
Create an SNMP Interface Monitor on page 388).
3 Click Add Entity in the Entities panel.
4 In the filter that appears, select the type: Interface.
5 Filter for the IP address of the entity monitored in the previous SNMP interface monitor
creation, select it and click
Add Selection and Done.
6 Select the ifInErrors attribute, and click the right arrow in the Dashboard View Attributes
panel.
7 Click Save . The dashboard view you have configured should appear in the portlet.
8 To launch it, right-click and either Launch (Popup) or Launch (Maximize)
9 If you want to convert this simple dashboard to a custom dashboard so you can alter it further,
right-click and click
Convert.
10 Notice that you can also change the time/date format as described in Changing Dashboard
Time/Date Format
above.
NOTE:
To improve performance, SNMP Interface Monitor does not retain polled data by default. You cannot use
historical attribute data in a dashboard without this retention.