Users Guide

Interacting with the vFoglight Cartridge for VMware 69
vmMonitor Dashboard
Navigation View
The Navigation View is located at the top of the vmMonitor Dashboard.
Purpose
The Navigation View displays an icon and an object type name that together indicate the
type of object that is being examined.
The vmMonitor Dashboard does not provide a direct hierarchical structure in which you
can change between objects. Instead, the Navigation View has a drop-down menu with
which objects from the current level may be selected. For example, in Figure 14 the
breadcrumbs show that the current level is the Datacenter level. The drop-down box
within the Navigation View enables an administrator to choose from any of the
available Datacenter objects.
Figure 14
Figure 14vmMonitor Navigation View
In order to traverse up or down through the infrastructure an administrator can use the
breadcrumbs at the top of the vmMonitor Dashboard or select from the various objects
on the Related Objects View. For more information, see “Related Objects View” on
page 74.
The Navigation View also contains an alarm summary which is located at the far right
of the view. The alarm summary shows you the number of alarms at each severity level
that are outstanding for the selected object. When you click an alarm count, you get a
popup that lists the active alarms for the object.