Building a dashboard on the Console

Each user can add up to 10 dashboards per Console instance.

Before you begin

To make your dashlets display performance data for particular segments of traffic, you must define Watchpoints.

To see the Analyzer data on the Console dashlets, the Security user must set up the Analyzer in the following way:

1. Turn on the cross-domain-policy – On the Administration tab, click Security settings > Cross-domain policy, and then click ON.
2. Turn on the configuration API — On the Administration tab, click Security settings > Services, and enable the Configuration API access property.

To add a dashboard

1. In a BMC Application Performance Management Console, point to Application Monitoring > Dashboards, and click Create a new Dashboard.
2. In the Name box, type a name for the new dashboard.
3. Click Save.
4. Click Add a Dashlet.
5. Drag dashlets from the Dashlet library to the placeholders the dashboard (as shown on the figure below).
   
   Dragging a Dashlet to the Dashboard
   
6. After you have added all the dashlets, click Done.

Where to go from here

Customize each dashlet's display settings and data type, such as dashlet title, time range, Watchpoint context, and so on. Read more about settings of available dashlets in Available-dashlets.

Related topics

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