Owner's Manual

Monitoring
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ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
Launch a Dashboard View
Launching a view lets you view the monitors active for a Dashboard view.
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ou can make Dashboards appear by selecting a device or devices in Managed Resources
portlet, right-clicking and choosing Show Performance. To select more than one device, use
the expanded Managed Resources portlet.
The first time you create a default dashboard for a single device, NMS200 saves it in the
Dashboard Views manager. Invoking Show Performance for that device subsequently
displays its default view.
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: Hoverin
g 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 (NMS200
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.z
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