5.8.5

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
You can expand each attribute group to view its metrics. When the widget shows metrics for only one
resource, metrics that have anomalies are yellow.
The toolbar at the top of the Metric Selector widget contains icons that you can use to change the view.
Table 4‑11. Metric Selector Widget Toolbar Icons
Icon Description
Move To Graph Select one or more metrics and click this icon to make the metrics appear in the
Metric Graph widget. You can also double-click any attribute to make it appear
in the Metric Graph widget.
Show Common Metrics If you selected multiple metrics in the providing widget, click this icon to show
only those metrics that are common to all resources. Click the icon again to list
all of metrics for the resources.
This icon appears only if you selected multiple metrics in the providing widget.
Show Metrics Collecting Shows only currently collected metrics for the resources. Click the icon again to
show all metrics.
Search To find a particular metric group, metric instance, or metric, type all or part of its
name in the Search text box, select the type of value you are searching for, and
click this icon.
The only configuration option for the Metric Selector widget is the widget title.
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