Building a dashboard

Dashboards enable you to monitor a specific aspect of your traffic, such as performance or availability. this topic describes the following procedures:

• Adding a dashboard on the Console
• Adding a dashboard on the Analyzer
• Adding a dashlet to the dashboard on the Console
• Adding a dashlet to the dashboard on the Analyzer

You can add dashboards to 

and Real User Analyzer by using the following procedures.

To add a dashboard to the Console

1. Click Home > Dashboards > Create a new Dashboard.
2. In the Name box, type a name for the new dashboard.
3. Click Save.
4. Add dashlets from the Dashlet library.

To add a dashboard to an Analyzer

1. On the Action menu of the Dashboards page, click Add new dashboard.
2. In the Dashboard title box, type a group name or select from the list the name of the group to which to add this dashboard.
3. In the Group title box, type a name for this dashboard first group.
   A group is a container for dashlets. All dashboards must have at least one group.
4. Click an option button to select a preconfigured group layout.
   A lock icon in a column of the layout indicates that the width of that column is fixed. The width of other columns adjusts dynamically to fill the group layout.
5. Click OK.
   The new dashboard opens on the Dashboards page.
6. Add dashlets from the Dashlet library.

To add a dashlet to a dashboard on the Console

1. On the Dashboards page, select a dashboard.
2. Click Add a Dashlet.
    The Dashlet Library is displayed.
3. Click a dashlet and drag it from the Dashlet library to the dashboard.
   For a description of the dashlet, click Details. You can add the same dashlet more than once to the same dashboard. For example, you might want to monitor the same metric but on a different server or in a different physical location.
4. After you have added all the dashlets (a maximum of 10), click Done.
5. Edit the dashlet settings (shown in the following figure) and change the layout of the dashboard.

To add a dashlet to a dashboard on the Analyzer component

1. Open the Dashboards page.
2. On the Action menu, click Add dashlets.
   The Dashlet library is displayed.
3. Specify where to add the dashlet as follows:
   1. In the Dashboard list, click the target dashboard.
   2. In the Group list, click the target group.
4. For each dashlet that you want to add (up to a maximum of 10), click Add this dashlet.
    A check mark is displayed, indicating that the dashlet has been added.
    You can add any dashlet to the dashboard more than once. For example, you might want to monitor the same metric but on a different server or in a different physical location.
5. Click Back to.
    This button dynamically includes the name of the last dashboard displayed.
6. Edit the dashlet settings (shown in the following figure) and change the layout of the dashboard.

Dashlet settings

Related topics

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