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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
Metric Sparklines Widget
The Metric Sparklines widget shows simple graphs that contain the values of selected metrics over time and
provides a quick view of the trends in KPIs.
Figure 3-16. Metric Sparklines Widget
If all of the metrics in the widget are for a resource that another widget provides, the resource name appears
at the top right of the widget.
The toolbar at the top of the Metric Sparklines widget contains icons that you can use to change the view.
Table 3-12. Metric Sparklines Widget Toolbar Icons
Icon Description
Auto Refresh Refreshes the widget data.
Date Controls Select the time period to show on the graphs. You can select a period in the top box, or
select start and end dates and times.
Remove All Removes all graphs from the widget.
Configure the Metric Sparklines Widget
You can select the metrics that the Metric Sparklines widget shows by editing the widget configuration.
You can also configure other widgets to provide metric selections to the Metric Sparklines widget. See
“Configure Widget Interactions,” on page 26.
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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Open the Edit Widget window for the Metric Sparklines widget. See “Edit a Widget Configuration,” on
page 26.
Procedure
1 Set Self Provider to On to define metric selections in the widget configuration.
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