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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Getting Started Guide
- Introducing vCenter Operations Manager Features and Concepts
- Designing Your Workspace
- Using and Configuring Widgets
- Edit a Widget Configuration
- Configure Widget Interactions
- Advanced Health Tree Widget
- Alerts Widget
- Application Detail Widget
- Application Overview Widget
- Configuration Overview Widget
- Data Distribution Analysis Widget
- Generic Scoreboard Widget
- GEO Widget
- Health Status Widget
- Health Tree Widget
- Health-Workload Scoreboard Widget
- Heat Map Widget
- Mashup Charts Widget
- Metric Graph Widget
- Metric Graph (Rolling View) Widget
- Metric Selector Widget
- Metric Sparklines Widget
- Metric Weather Map Widget
- Resources Widget
- Root Cause Ranking Widget
- Tag Selector Widget
- Top-N Analysis Widget
- VC Relationship Widget
- VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
- Introducing Common Tasks
- Logging in and Using vCenter Operations Manager
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Operations
- Handling Alerts
- Optimizing Your Resources
- Index
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“Root Cause Ranking Widget,” on page 65
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“Tag Selector Widget,” on page 67
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“Top-N Analysis Widget,” on page 68
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“VC Relationship Widget,” on page 70
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“VC Relationship (Planning) Widget,” on page 71
Edit a Widget Configuration
You customize a widget by editing its configuration options. Some widgets do not show data until you
configure them. The available configuration options vary depending on the widget type.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have the necessary access rights to perform this task. Your vCenter Operations Manager
administrator can tell you which actions you can perform.
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Become familiar with the configuration options for the widget to edit.
Procedure
1 Click the tab for the dashboard that contains the widget to edit.
2 Click the Edit Widget icon on the widget's toolbar.
The content of the Edit Widget window depends on the type of widget.
3 Type another name in the Widget title text box to customize the name of the widget.
4 Select a Self Provider option to specify where the objects that the widget shows are defined.
This option is not available if the widget cannot receive data from other widgets.
Option Description
On
Define the objects that the widget shows in the widget configuration.
Off
You configured, or plan to configure, one or more other widget to provide
objects to the widget.
5 Select a Refresh Widget Content option to specify whether the widget refreshes data after a specific time
period.
The default setting is Off.
6 If you set Refresh Widget Content to On, type the refresh interval, in seconds, in the Widget Refresh
Interval text box.
7 Edit any remaining configuration options, if required.
For example, if you set Self Provider to On, you must define the objects that the widget shows.
8 Click OK to save the widget configuration.
Configure Widget Interactions
You can configure a widget to show information for resources, applications, tags, or metrics that you select in
another widget. For example, you can configure the Metric Sparklines widget to show a graph for a metric that
you select in the Metric Selector widget. Both widgets must appear on the same dashboard.
When you configure widget interaction, you specify the widget that provides the information, called the
providing widget, to the widget that shows the information, called the receiving widget.
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