Working with chart options

When you move the interval marker by clicking on the chart, the navigation view below the chart will update the day, date, and time of the data.

To move the interval marker, move your cursor in the chart and click. Wherever you place your cursor in the chart, a tooltip displays the values for that particular time. 

For more information on tooltip values, see Data-Grouping section on Changing-the-chart-appearance.

The area below the chart displays the data timespan. If you selected a Fixed Data Timespan, the date range that you entered in the date picker is displayed. If you selected a Dynamic Data Timespan, the period that you selected is displayed. 

To change the data timespan, click Data Timespan and change the timespan in the Modify Report View panel.

Each entry in the custom legend shows the category and the metric. In the example, Service Class Activity is the category and Workload CPU Utilization is the metric. You can scroll the custom legend to see the data returned for each category-metric entry.

To expand an entry, click . 

The button color indicates the following information, depending on whether you are using a Custom Legend Entry or Object (Instance ID):

The Instance ID column displays the objects that were found in the data based on your selections in the filter options. The object value is also displayed.

To hide or display a particular object on the chart, click the Visible button.

To highlight a particular object on the chart, click the Highlight button. 

For line and area charts, the line becomes thicker. For column charts, the column borders become black.

To ghost a particular object on the chart, click the Ghost button. Ghosted objects become more transparent, allowing you to see other objects on the chart more easily.

To see the metric description, click Metric Description. A side panel opens and the description is displayed. The description comes from the BMC AMI Capacity Database Web Services data dictionary. It cannot be modified.

Using the More Actions option, you can change the series color, value markers, marker style, label markers, and the axis grid. You can also use it for data grouping.

You can use More Actions for all objects in a category or for a single object in that category. For more information, see Changing-the-chart-appearance.

The Banding option hides or displays the upper and lower statistical boundaries for a given object. The banding option is displayed when you select the Measured option in the Data-Granularity field.

For more information, see Using-the-Banding-and-the-Min-Max-options.

When you select a Measured as option in the Data-Granularity field, the Banding option is replaced by Min/Max option.

Every object has a corresponding value in the Value column. The values shown in this column change when you move the interval marker on the chart. For more than one object under a given metric, you can scroll down to see the total value.