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Table 1‑1. Horizon Dashboard Summary (Continued)
Horizon Dashboard What It Shows When To Use It
“Horizon RDS Host Details
Dashboard,” on page 15
Detailed information about the RDS hosts in
your Horizon environment.
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View desktop and application
sessions currently running on
selected RDS hosts
n
Identify when RDS host
problems occurred
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Collect and view in-guest
process data from RDS hosts
“Horizon Adapter Self Health
Dashboard,” on page 16
Health information for your Horizon adapters
and the broker agents connected to those
adapters. This dashboard also contains license
compliance information.
n
Troubleshoot Horizon adapter
problems
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Monitor license use
“Horizon End User Experience
Dashboard,” on page 17
Health information for your resources.
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Troubleshoot problems related
to vCenter resources adapter.
Horizon Overview Dashboard
The Horizon Overview dashboard shows the overall status of your Horizon environment. Use the Horizon
Overview dashboard to visualize the end-to-end environment, its underlying environment, and alerts.
The Horizon Top Alerts widget shows the alerts of the greatest signicance for Horizon objects. When you
select a pod in the Horizon Pods widget, the Pod Indicator Metrics, Pod Session Metrics, and Pod Capacity
Metrics widgets show data for the pod that you selected.
Tips for Using the Horizon Overview Dashboard
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Click an alert in the Horizon Top Alerts widget to open the alert details.
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Use the Horizon Pods widget to determine the total number of sessions, including the number of
connected and disconnected sessions, for a selected pod. Use the Pod Session Metrics widget to view
desktop, application, PCoIP, RDP, and Blast metrics.
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The vCenter Server Instance widget shows the vCenter that the View pod is associated with. It includes
vCenter name, vCenter CPU capacity usage, vCenter usable memory, vCenter disk capacity remaining,
and collecting status.
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The Capacity remaining widget shows the capacity related information of the selected vCenter in
vCenter Server Instance widget. It shows the graph of used capacity and remaining capacity.
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The Reclaimable Capacity widget shows the reclaimable capacity of the selected vCenter in the vCenter
Server Instance widget. It shows the reclaimable CPU, memory, and disk. It also shows the percentage
of VMs in dierent status.
Horizon Help Desk Dashboard
Use the Horizon Help Desk dashboard to view detailed information about all connected sessions running in
your Horizon environment. The Connected Sessions widget lists all the connected VDI desktop sessions,
RDS desktop sessions, and application sessions in your environment. It is the master widget for the
dashboard.
Tips for Using the Horizon Help Desk Dashboard
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Use the All Environment Alerts widget to view all existing alerts of the system. Click each alert to get
detailed information.
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Use the Selected User Session Alerts widget to view alerts of the selected session. Click each alert to get
detailed information.
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