Tutorial

Tutorial 1: Creating a Dashboard 47
Summary
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Summary
In this tutorial you have constructed a query, used it to populate the rows of a table, and
presented that table in a fixed-layout view component that we are calling a dashboard.
You have viewed the component by navigating to All Hosts in the Dashboards area
under My Dashboards.
When you build a dashboard page with a real purpose in mind you will want to present
some useful information about each host, such as the state of applications running on it,
and to see if there are any alarms. You will want to add your newly-constructed page to
a place that already exists in the UI. Also, you may want to furnish a drilldown page that
contains extra information about a particular host that you select from the table. To
accomplish that, you will need to understand how to use context inputs and flows.
Those topics are covered in the next tutorial.
Additional Activities
Because you gave the dashboard a title, it appeared at the top of the component.
Experiment with giving the table another title.
To give the table another name:
1 Go back to the table’s configuration tab and edit its title.
2 Choose String Template and in the Edit - Title dialog type Hosts Being
Monitored by vFoglight in the Value field.
3 Save your changes, both in the dialog and in the component.
To add a title to the table:
1 Whether the table’s title shows or not is a property that is set in All Hosts. Open it
for editing and select the Layout tab.