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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Introducing Custom User Interface Features and Concepts
- Introducing Common Tasks
- Logging In and Using vCenter Operations Manager
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Operations
- Handling Alerts
- Optimizing Your Resources
- Designing Your Workspace
- Using and Configuring Widgets
- Edit a Widget Configuration
- Supported Widget Interactions
- 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
- Text Widget
- Top-N Analysis Widget
- VC Relationship Widget
- VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
- Define Metric Sets for a Widget
- Index
4 In the List pane, select one or more resources.
Option Action
Select a specific resource
Select the resource in the list. You can type all or part of the resource name
in the Search text box and click the right angle bracket (>) to search for the
resource.
Select multiple resources
a Press Ctrl+click to select multiple resources or Shift+click to select a range
of resources.
b Click the Perform Multi-Select Interaction icon on the toolbar at the top
of the List pane.
Clear all of your selections
Click the Clear Selection icon on the toolbar at the top of the List pane.
The metrics for the resources appear in the Metric Selector With Resource Selection pane.
5 In Metric Selector With Resource Selection pane, select the metrics to show in the widget.
Option Action
Select a specific resource
Double-click the metric.
Select multiple metrics
a Press Ctrl+click to select multiple metrics or Shift+click to select a range
of metrics.
b Click the Perform Multi-Select icon on the toolbar at the top of the Metric
Selector With Resource Selection pane.
List the metrics that are common to
multiple selected resources
Click the Show Common Metrics icon on the toolbar at the top of the Metric
Selector With Resource Selection pane.
The metrics that you select appear in the Selected Metrics pane.
6 (Optional) Manage the metrics in the Selected Metrics pane.
Option Action
Change the order of a metric in the
list
Select the metric and drag and drop it to another position in the list.
Remove a metric from the list
Select the metric and click the Remove Selected Metrics icon on the toolbar
at the top of the Selected Metrics pane.
Select all of the metrics in the list
Click the Select All icon on the toolbar at the top of the Selected Metrics pane.
Remove all of the metrics from the
list
Click the Clear Selections icon on the toolbar at the top of the Selected
Metrics pane.
7 Click OK to save the widget configuration.
Metric Selector Widget
The Metric Selector widget shows attribute packages for one or more resources that you select in the Alerts,
Generic Scoreboard, Health Status, Health Tree, Health-Workload Scoreboard, Heat Map, Resources, Root
Cause Ranking, VC Relationship, or VC Relationship (Planning) widget.
Figure 4-15. Metric Selector Widget
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