Health Chart
Widget
The Health Chart widget displays
Health, Risk, Efficiency, or custom metric charts for selected objects. You use the widget
to compare the status of similar objects based on the same value or name.
How the Health Chart Widget and
Configuration Options Work
You can add the Health Chart widget to one
or more custom dashboards and configure it to display data that is important to the
dashboard users. The information that it displays depends on how the widget is
configured.
If the widget is configured to display
Health, Risk, or Efficiency, the chart values are based on the generated alerts for
the selected alert type for the selected objects.
If the widget is configured to display custom
metrics, chart values are based on the metric value for the configured time period.
You edit the Health Chart widget after you
add it to the dashboard. The changes you make to the options create a custom widget
with the selected charts.
The charts are based either on Health, Risk,
or Efficiency alert status, or you can base them on a selected metric. You can
include a single object, multiple objects, or all objects of a selected type.
To view the value of the object at a
particular time, point your cursor over the chart. A date range and metric value
tool tip appear.
A context drop-down menu for each chart
can be accessed at the top-right corner after the last metric value.
For each chart, you can view the minimum,
maximum, and last metric values. The values are displayed at the top-right corner of
each chart. Each of the values is preceded by an appropriate icon of the same color
as the state of the metric value.
If there is not enough space to view the
metric values, a blue information icon is displayed. Point your cursor over the icon
to view the metric value details.
Where You Find the
Health Chart Widget
The widget might be included on any of your custom
dashboards. From the left menu, click
to see your configured dashboards. The configuration options are grouped
into one or more sections. You can select the objects on which you want to base the
widget data and refine the objects in the following sections. Each section filters
the objects further and pushes the filtered objects to the next section. The widget
data is based on the objects that are the output of the last section.
To customize the data that appears in the dashboard
widget, from the left menu, click
. To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards
panel, click
Create
. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards
panel, select the
dashboard you want to edit and select . Toggle between the Views
and Widgets
option to
view and add a widget or view to the dashboard. The widgets list panel displays a
list of all the predefined widgets. Drag a widget to the dashboard workspace in the
upper panel.Health Chart Widget Toolbar
Options
On the title bar of the widget, click the
Show Toolbar
icon to access the toolbar options.Option | Description |
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Date Controls | Use the date selector
to limit the data that appears in each chart to the time period you are
examining.
Select Dashboard
Time to activate the dashboard time panel. The
option chosen in the dashboard time panel is effective. The
default time is 6 hours. Dashboard
Time is the default option. |
Health Chart Widget Graph Selector
Options
The graph selector options determine how
individual data appears in the graph.
Option | Description |
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Close | Deletes the chart.
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Save a snapshot | Creates a PNG file of the current chart. The image
is the size that appears on your screen. You can retrieve the
file in your browser's download folder.
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Save a full screen snapshot | Downloads the current
graph image as a full-page PNG file, which you can display or save.
You can retrieve the
file in your browser's download folder.
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Download comma-separated data | Creates a CSV file
that includes the data in the current chart.
You can retrieve the
file in your browser's download folder.
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Units | Select the units in which the widget displays
data. This option is visible when you select a custom source of data
in the widget configuration. |
Health Chart Configuration
Options
On the title bar of the widget, click the
Edit Widget
icon to configure the widget.The
Configuration
section
provides general configuration options for the widget.The
Input Data
section
provides options to specify input for the widget. This section appears when the
widget is in self provider mode.The
Input Transformation
section provides options to transform the input for the widget.The
Output Filter
section
provides options to restrict the widget data based on the selected filter
criteria.Option | Description |
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Title | Enter a custom title that
identifies this widget from other instances that are based on the same widget
template.
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Configuration
| |
Refresh Content | Activate or deactivate the automatic refreshing of the
data in this widget. If not activated, the widget is updated only when the
dashboard is opened or when you click the Refresh button on
the widget in the dashboard. |
Refresh Interval | If you activate the Refresh
Content option, specify how often to refresh the data in this
widget. |
Self Provider | Indicates whether the objects
for which data appears in the widget are defined in the widget or provided by
another widget.
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Order By | Determines how the object
charts appear in the widget. You can order them based
on value or name, and in ascending or descending order. |
Chart Height | Controls the height of all charts. Choose from
three possible choices - Small, Medium, Large. Default is Medium.
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Pagination number | Number of charts that
appears on a page. If you prefer scrolling
through the charts, select a higher number. If you prefer to
page through the results, select a lower number. |
Auto Select First Row | Determines whether to
start with the first row of data. |
Metric | Determines the source of
the data.
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Metric Unit | Select a unit for the custom metric. |
Show | Select one or more of
the following items to display in the widget:
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Input
Data
| |
Objects | Select objects on which you want to base the widget
data.
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All | If you select this option, the widget data is
based on all the objects in your environment. The following sections provide options
to refine the objects for the widget data. |
Input
Transformation
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Relationship | Transform the input for the widget based on the
relationship of the objects. For example, if you select the
Children check box and a Depth of
1 , the child objects are the transformed inputs for the
widget. |
Output
Filter
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Basic | Pick tags to refine the widget data. The widget
data is based on the objects that have the picked tags applied. If you pick more
than one value for the same tag, the widget includes objects that have any of the
tags applied. If you pick more than one value for different tags, the widget
includes only the objects that have all the tags applied. If the objects have an input transformation
applied, you select tag values for the transformed objects. |
Advanced | Refine the widget data further based on the filter
criteria for object types. The widget data is based on the objects for the filtered
object types. If the objects have a tag filter applied in the
Basic subsection, you define filter criteria for the
object types of the objects with tag filter applied. If the objects with tag filter
applied do not belong to any of the object types in this filter criteria, the widget
skips this filter and includes all the objects with tag filter applied.If the objects have an input transformation
applied, you define filter criteria for the object types of the transformed
objects.
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