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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
Table 3‑1. Summary of Widgets (Continued)
Widget Name Description
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 55.
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.
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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Become familiar with the available widgets. See Chapter 4, “Using and Configuring Widgets,” on
page 55.
Procedure
1 Click the tab for the dashboard.
2 Click Edit on the Dashboard Tools bar.
The available widgets appear in the left pane of the Dashboard Editing: Edit a Tab window.
3 Drag the widget to add from the left pane to the right pane.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
The widget appears on the dashboard.
What to do next
If necessary, edit the widget configuration. See “Edit a Widget Configuration,” on page 56.
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