Adding a custom view
As an administrator, create your own custom views in the Views tab. The Views tab provides out-of-the-box page templates that you need to configure to meet your specific requirements. Each template provides access to a specific type of data and presents it in a predefined format. You can create as many custom views as necessary.
A view consists of a set of pages that are based on the templates. You can group pages under a subview, if needed. The pages under a subview are displayed as tabs, also called subsystem tabs.
The following image shows a custom view with a single-page subview VMs and a subview Infrastructure Overview with two subsystem tabs Clusters and Hosts.
The following video (2:50) illustrates the process of adding a custom view.
For more information, see the following sections:
Before you begin
- Make sure that your user group has the administrator role assigned to it. Otherwise, the Manage Views option is not available.
- If the existing data marts do not contain the data that you need, create data marts as per your requirements. For more information, see Creating-a-SQL-based-data-mart-for-a-custom-view or Creating-a-summary-data-mart-for-a-custom-view.
- Add view groups, if required. For more information, see Adding and managing view groups.
To add a custom view
- In the left navigation pane of Views tab, select Manage Views.
- In the Manage Views page, click Add view.
- Enter the name of the view.
- From the View group list, select the view group to which the custom view should belong and click Next.
For more information on view groups, see Adding-and-managing-view-groups. - In the Create the first page box, complete the following steps:
- In the Page name field, enter a name for the page.
From the Display the page list, select if you want to display the new page As a tab of the page menu, or In full screen, without page menu.
If you select As a tab of the page menu, the page is displayed as a tab in the custom view.
If you select In full screen, without page menu, the page is displayed in the full screen mode, and the page menu is not displayed.
- From the list of templates, select a template for the custom view. For more information about the page templates, see View-page-templates.
- Click Create.
The custom view is created and is displayed. - Configure the view page template. For more information, see View-page-templates.
- Click Save.
The Capacity views page displays a table that lists all the views that are available in the Views tab.