Adding a custom view
As an administrator, you can easily create your own custom views in the TrueSight console. The console provides you with 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
- Ensure that TrueSight Capacity Optimization is registered with the Presentation Server. For more information, see Installing the Presentation Server.
- Ensure that your user group has the TSPS_Capacity_Administration role assigned to it. Otherwise, the Administration > Capacity Views option is not available to you.
- 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-in-the-TrueSight-console .
- Add view groups, if required. For more information, see Adding-and-managing-view-groups.
To add a custom view
The workflow to add a custom view is as follows:
Click the links in the diagram to see the detailed steps.
1. Access the Add View wizard.
- In the TrueSight console, select
> Administration > Capacity Views. - In the Custom Capacity page, click Add View.
2. Specify a name for the view.
In the Add View box, complete the following steps:
- In the View name field, type 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 View groups.
3. Select a custom view template.
- In the Create the first page box, complete the following steps:
- In the Page name field, type the 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.
4. Customize the template and save the view.
- Configure the view page template . For more information, see View-page-templates.
- Click Save.
The view is saved. It is listed in the Custom views list in the navigation pane (Capacity > Views > Custom Views), as well as in the Capacity views page (Administration > Capacity Views).
The Capacity views page displays a table that lists all the views that are available on the TrueSight console, along with information like the creation, view group and so on.