Configuring the System time forecasting template

Before you begin

Ensure that the time-forecasting model that you want to select in the template is created. For details about creating a time forecasting model, see time-forecasting.

To configure a view using the System time forecasting template

The following video (7:07) illustrates the process of using the System time forecasting template in a custom view.

https://youtu.be/p91ck7tgH8w

1. Open the view page with the System time forecasting template:
   • For a new view, add a view and select System time forecasting as the template. For detailed steps, see Adding-and-managing-views.
   • For a new page in an existing view, add a page and select System time forecasting as the template. For detailed steps, see To add a page to an existing custom view.
2. In the view page, specify the following information:
   • Title: Type the required title for the page.
   • Time Forecating Model: Select the required scenario of the time-forecasting model from the drop-down list.
   • Show contained elements count: Click the button to enable or disable display of the number of contained elements. 
   • Show tags : Click the  button to enable or disable the display of tags, if available, for the system .

   • Show recommendations: Click the button to enable or disable recommendations. When you enable it, links to a set of recommended actions are displayed, that can help you resolve capacity-related problems in your environment. For more information, see Viewing recommendations in views on the TrueSight console . 

      denotes that the display enabled.  denotes that the display disabled.

   • To display information related to a single system, use the system filters:
     1. Display system type: Select the type of system to display in the view page. You can select one or more similar system types from the list. For example, Virtual Machine - AIX LPAR, Virtual Machine - AIX Shared Processor LPAR and Virtual Machine - AIX VIO LPAR.

     2. Label: Type a label for the system type filter. By default, the name of the system filter is selected as the label.

        (Optional) Filters: To add more filters, click (Change). You can add up to two additional filters to aid in the selection of the system.

        For example, if you do not know the exact system whose data you want to display, you can add additional filters to restrict the number of systems to choose from.

        To illustrate, If you select VMware Virtual Machine as the base system type filter, you can select VMware Virtual Host and VMware Virtual Cluster as the additional filters that you can use to restrict the number of VMware Virtual Machine systems to choose from.

        In the edit box that appears at the bottom, perform the following steps:

        1. (Optional): Select the system type from the System type filter 1 list. If you have selected more than one system in the Display system type, you can select the common parent system type for the selected systems. For example, if you have selected the Display system type as Virtual Machine - AIX LPAR, Virtual Machine - AIX Shared Processor LPAR and Virtual Machine - AIX VIO LPAR, you can select Virtual Host - AIX PowerVM in the System type filter 1 list.

        2. (Optional): Label: The field is populated with the filter name you select. You can type a different label.

           Similarly, select System type filter 2, if required.

           For more information, see Using system type filters in views.

     3. Click Apply. The additional filters appear under Filters (Change) in the top edit area of the view. 

        To delete filters, click X on the filters.

   • Related information: Displays the drill-down links, like Host Details and so on, if available, for the view. For example, from a system details view of a cluster, you can link to the table of hosts of that cluster.

     To add links, click + Add link.

     1. In the Link Label box, type a name for the link.
     2. From the Target page list, select the page you want to link to.
        You can add multiple links.
     3. After you are done adding links, click Apply to go back to the previous edit screen.
3. (Optional) To add a custom text, click Add custom text. To update an existing custom text, click Change in the custom text panel. You can add descriptions, instructions, links, or any other textual information for the users of the view page. You can use markdown tags to format the content of custom text and to add images, links, and tables. For example, you can add a description such as “Displays performance metrics for Payroll application”, or a label such as "NY Datacenter - Capacity Metrics". In the Editor panel, specify the following, and click Apply:
   • Title: Type the required title for the custom text.
   • Always expand custom text: Use this option to toggle the display of custom text as expanded or collapsed.
   • Editor: Type the required content and format it by using markdown tags such as * to create an unordered list and # to increase the font size. A preview of the formatted content is displayed in the Preview section.
   • Insert image: Enable you to add an image. The selected image is displayed in the Preview section. 
   Click here to view the examples of markdown tags

   The following image illustrates the preview of the commonly-used standard markdown language tags. For more information about markdown tags, see Showdown's Markdown syntax.
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4. Click Save.The custom view page is created with the defined configuration. You can filter the charts in the view page by applying the appropriate filter such as domain, tag, and system.

Example of a custom view page with the System time forecasting template

Custom view page with the using time-forecasting model.