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You can now create your own dashboards in Solve!

If you have Solve Admin permissions in the Security Policy Pane, these dashboards can be published so other users in your organization can access them. If you are not an admin, you can create dashboards for your own use.

Solve already includes the following default dashboard options to which you can add your own:

  • All: Displays metrics for both User Experience and Resources. This is the default display unless you change the default.
  • User Experience: Displays all the metrics relevant to the end-user computing experience. These can include logon duration, user sessions, etc. You can view the metrics that affect how your users are experiencing your IT environment.
  • Resources: Displays all the metrics relevant to the infrastructure of your IT environment. These can include CPU usage, memory, network, machines, disk space, etc.!
    DefaultDashboards

Custom Dashboards

You select from the different available dashboards and create new dashboards from this menu at the top of the Solve Dashboard view:
Select

Create a Dashboard

To create a new dashboard:

  1. Click the caret in the dashboard box to open the list of all dashboards.
  2. Click the plus sign Plus.
  3. Type a name into the field that opens at the bottom of the list. Use a name that reflects the data added to this dashboard. Click Enter and you can start adding widgets.
Note:

If you don't type a name within several seconds, an automatic name such as New Dashboard 1 is automatically assigned to the dashboard you just created.

Add a Widget to a Dashboard

You can add widgets to a dashboard to display exactly the data you need to see. You can select from preconfigured widgets or customize your own. Note that you can add a widget to a shared dashboard only if you are a Solve admin.

To start adding a new widget, go to one of your dashboards and click Add widget.

The widget creation window opens. You can choose to add built-in widgets supplied by ControlUp, or you can create your own custom widget.

Add a Built-in Widget
  1.  Set the Widget Type to one of the following built-in widget visualization and metrics:

    • Resources Health. A double gauge that displays the health of your Hosts and Machines.
    • Sessions Stress Level. A single gauge displaying stress levels set in the system on sessions currently logging in.
    • Processes Stress Level. A single gauge displaying stress levels set in the system on the processes running in the context selected.
    • Top 5 Processes by CPU. Displays a bar graph of the 5 processes that are using the most CPU.
    • Top 5 Processes by Memory Utilization. Displays a bar graph of the 5 processes that are using the most memory.
    • Top 5 Processes by Disk Usage. Displays a bar graph of the 5 processes that are using the most disk usage.
    • Top 5 User Sessions by CPU Consumption. Displays a bar graph of the 5 sessions that are consuming the most CPUs.
    • Top 5 Slowest Logons. Displays a bar graph of the 5 connected users who have the slowest logon times.

      ControlUp processes excluded from Top 5 widgets
      When viewing the Top 5 widgets, ControlUp processes are excluded from these metrics so you can see what's really going on in your environment without the ControlUp processes that may be running.

  2. Select the default Scope of the data to display in your widget from the dropdown representing your organization tree. This is the default selection for this widget. If you highlight a different folder in your organization tree while viewing the dashboard, the scope of the data for this widget changes to the highlighted folder but defaults back to this selected scope if nothing is selected in the tree.

  3. Enter a useful Widget Name that other users can recognize.

  4. In the bottom right-hand corner of the Add Widget dialog, preview the widget you just created.

Add a Custom Widget 
  1. Set the Widget Type to Custom.

  2. Select the Resource Type for the widget. If you want the widget to show metrics from a folder in your ControlUp organization tree, select Tree Folders. If you want the widget to show metrics from a specific resource in your topology, for example Machines, select the topology layer of the resource.

  3. Depending on what you selected as the Resource Type, under Scope select either the folder or the resource that you want to use as the data source for the widget. This is the default selection for this widget. If you highlight a different folder in your organization tree while viewing the dashboard, the scope of the data for this widget changes to the highlighted folder but defaults back to this selected scope if nothing is selected in the tree.

    Display all related metrics in your organization
    If you do not want to limit your selection to a resource in your environment, under Resource Type select Tree Folders and for the resource, select your whole organization folder as the Scope.

  4. Select the Metrics that you want to display in the widget.

  5. Choose how you want to display the metrics by selecting a Visualization type. The available options depend on what you selected as your Resource Type and Metrics.

  6. Enter a useful Widget Name that other users can recognize.

  7. In the bottom right-hand corner of the Add Widget dialog, preview the widget you just created.
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