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Table 3-1. Summary of Widgets (Continued)
Widget Name Description
Health Status Shows health information for selected resources, or all resources that have a
selected tag.
Health Tree Shows the indicator for a selected resource, its parent resource, and its child
resources.
Health-Workload Scoreboard Shows color-coded health or workload scores for selected resources.
Heat Map Shows performance information for a selected application as a heat map.
Mashup Chart Brings together disparate pieces of information for a resource. It shows a health
chart, an anomaly count graph, and metric graphs for key performance
indicators (KPIs). This widget is typically used for an application.
Metric Graph Shows the recent performance of selected metrics graphically.
Metric Graph (Rolling View) Cycles through selected metrics at an interval that you define and shows one
metric graph at a time. Miniature graphs, which you can expand, appear for all
selected metrics at the bottom of the widget.
Metric Selector Shows all metrics for the resources that are selected in the Resources widget.
Metric Sparklines Shows the values collected for one or more selected metrics graphically over a
time period that you select.
Metric Weather Map Uses changing colors to show the behavior of a selected metric over time for
multiple resources.
Resources Lists all defined resources.
Root Cause Ranking Shows the likely root causes for symptoms for a selected resource.
Generic Scoreboard Shows values for selected metrics, which are typically KPIs, with color coding
for defined value ranges.
Tag Selector Lists all defined resource tags.
Text Reads text from a Web page or text file and shows the text in the user interface.
Top-N-Analysis Shows the top or bottom five metrics or resources in various categories, such
as the five applications that have the best or worth health score.
VC Relationship Shows the performance status of objects in your virtual environment and their
relationships. You can click an object to highlight its related objects and double-
click an object to view its Resource Detail page.
VC Relationship (Planning) Provides use and badge metric information (risk, time, capacity, stress,
efficiency, waste, and density) for the resources in your virtual environment.
You can use this information to plan for capacity upgrades or rebalance the
workload in your virtual infrastructure.
For detailed information about these widgets, see Chapter 4, “Using and Configuring Widgets,” on
page 51.
Add a Widget to a Dashboard
You add a widget to a dashboard by editing the dashboard. You can add any widget to any dashboard. A
dashboard typically contains widgets that show related information, such as different views of the performance
of a particular group of resources or similar alerts for separate applications.
NOTE You can add any number of widgets to a dashboard, but the more widgets that you add, the further
you must scroll down the browser window to use a widget.
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