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Table 4-10. Metric Graph Widget Toolbar Icons (Continued)
Icon Description
Show Data Values After you click the Show data point tips icon to retrieve the data, click this icon and
point to a graphed data point to show its time and exact value. In non-split mode, you
can hover over a metric in the legend to show the full metric name, the names of the
adapter instances (if any) that provide data for the resource to which the metric
belongs, the current value, and the normal range. If the metric is currently alarming,
the text color in the legend changes to yellow or red, depending on your color scheme.
Click a metric in the legend to highlight the metric in the display. Clicking the metric
again toggles its highlighted state.
Date Controls Select up to three time periods to show on the graph. For the first period, select a value
in the top box or select start and end times and dates. To graph multiple periods, select
the first period and select the previous periods to which to compare it. All periods
must be the same length. If you set a start date and time for the second or third period,
vCenter Operations Manager fills in the end time.
NOTE For most time periods, vCenter Operations Manager includes predicted values
for the near future. For example, if you select the last hour,
vCenter Operations Manager also shows 15 minutes into the future. If you select the
last day, vCenter Operations Manager predicts four hours into the future. Periods
longer than 30 days do not show any future time. If a user-defined time period includes
time in the future, vCenter Operations Manager shows predicted values for the
defined future period.
Configure the Metric Graph (Rolling View) Widget
You can select the metrics that the Metric Graph (Rolling View) widget shows by editing the widget
configuration.
You
can also configure other widgets to provide metric selections to the Metric Graph (Rolling View) widget.
See “Configure Widget Interactions,” on page 57.
To define a fixed set of metrics for the widget to draw when you select a particular resource, see “Define Metric
Sets for a Widget,” on page 104.
Prerequisites
n
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.
n
Open the Edit Widget window for the Metric Graph (Rolling View) widget. See “Edit a Widget
Configuration,” on page 52.
Procedure
1 Set Self Provider to On to define metric selections in the widget configuration.
2 Configure the transition interval and chart toolbar options.
Option Description
AutoTransition Interval
Type the metric graph rotation interval, in seconds. The graph switches after
the number of seconds that you specify.
Show Chart Toolbar
Specify whether to include the toolbar on the widget display.
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