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Table 2‑2. Summary of Widgets (Continued)
Widget Name Description
Container Object List Shows a list of all dened resources and object types.
Container Overview Shows the overall health and the health of each tier for one or more containers.
Current Policy Shows the highest priority policy applied to a custom group.
Data Collection Results Shows a list of all supported actions specic for a selected object.
Density Shows the density breakdown as charts for the past 7 days for a specic resource.
DRS Cluster Seings Shows the workload of the available clusters and the associated hosts.
Eciency Shows the status of the eciency-related alerts for the objects that it is congured to
monitor. Eciency is based on generated eciency alerts in your environment.
Environment Lists the number of resources by object or groups them by object type.
Environment Overview 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.
Environment Status Shows statistics for the overall monitored environment.
Faults Shows a list of availability and conguration issues for a selected resource.
Forensics Shows how often a metric had a particular value, as a percentage of all values, within a
given time period. It can also compare percentages for two time periods.
Geo Shows where your objects are located on a world map, if your conguration assigns
values to the Geo Location object tag.
Health Shows the status of the health-related alerts for the objects that it is congured to monitor.
Health is based on generated health alerts in your environment.
Health Chart Shows health information for selected resources, or all resources that have a selected tag.
Heat Map Shows a heat map with the performance information for a selected resource.
Mashup Chart Brings together disparate pieces of information for a resource. It shows a health chart, an
anomaly count graph, and metric graphs for key performance indicators (KPIs). This
widget is typically used for a container.
Metric Chart Shows a chart with the workload of the object over time based on the selected metrics.
Metric Picker Shows a list of available metrics for a selected resource. It works with any widget that can
provide resource ID.
Object List Shows a list of all dened resources.
Object Relationship Shows the hierarchy tree for the selected object.
Object Relationship
(Advanced)
Shows the hierarchy tree for the selected objects. It provides advanced conguration
options.
Property List Shows the properties and their values of an object that you select.
Reclaimable Capacity Shows a percentage chart representing the amount of reclaimable capacity for a specic
resource that has consumers.
Recommended Actions Displays recommendations to solve problems in your vCenter Server instances. With
recommendations, you can run actions on your data centers, clusters, hosts, and virtual
machines.
Risk Shows the status of the risk-related alerts for the objects that it is congured to monitor.
Risk is based on generated risk alerts in your environment.
Rolling View Chart Cycles through selected metrics at an interval that you dene and shows one metric graph
at a time. Miniature graphs, which you can expand, appear for all selected metrics at the
boom of the widget.
Scoreboard Shows values for selected metrics, which are typically KPIs, with color coding for dened
value ranges.
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