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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
- Working with Dashboards
- Create a Dashboard
- Clone a Dashboard
- Edit a Dashboard
- Delete a Dashboard
- Create a Dashboard Template
- Hide a Dashboard Tab
- Change the Order of Dashboard Tabs
- Delete a Dashboard Template
- Configure Dashboard Switching
- Share a Dashboard
- Stop Sharing a Dashboard for all Users
- Stop Sharing a Dashboard for a Group
- Export a Dashboard
- Import a Dashboard
- vSphere Dashboards
- Working with Widgets
- Working with Dashboards
- 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
- Custom Relationship Widget
- Data Collection Results 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
Configure Dashboard Switching
You can configure vCenter Operations Manager to switch from one dashboard to another. This feature is
useful if you have several dashboards that show different aspects of your enterprise's performance and you
want to look at each dashboard in turn.
Prerequisites
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.
Procedure
1 Select Dashboards > Reorder Tabs.
2 Select On next to the dashboard.
3 Type the number of seconds to wait before switching the dashboard in the Seconds text box next to the
dashboard.
4 Select the dashboard to switch to from the To this Tab drop-down menu next to the dasbhoard.
5 Click OK to save your changes.
Share a Dashboard
You can share a dashboard with one or more user groups. When you share a dashboard, it becomes
available to all of the users in the user group that you select. The dashboard appears the same to all of the
users who share it. If you edit a shared dashboard, the dashboard changes for all users.
NOTE Other users can only view a shared dashboard. They cannot change it.
Prerequisites
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.
Procedure
1 Click the tab for the dashboard to share.
2 Click Share on the Dashboard Tools bar.
3 Select the dashboard in the Shared Dashboards pane and drag it to one or more user groups in the
Accounts Groups pane.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
After you share a dashboard, an icon appears on the dashboard tab to indicate that you are sharing the
dashboard. When another user views the shared dashboard, a key icon on the dashboard tab indicates that
the user cannot edit the dashboard.
Stop Sharing a Dashboard for all Users
If you do not want other users to be able to use a dashboard that you previously shared, you can stop
sharing it.
Prerequisites
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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