eG Monitoring
 

My Dashboard

With eG Enterprise, you have the option to build a custom dashboard, using which you can graphically compare current and historical performance of multiple applications of interest to you. This dashboard not only allows you to choose the components to focus on, but also pick the measures and even descriptors that should be featured in it. By default, this dashboard capability is enabled. To build an application-independent custom dashboard therefore, click on the icon available in the Monitor tab and then select the My Dashboards option from the Dashboards section. To disable this capability, you need to do the following:

  • Edit the [MULTISERVER_CUSTOM_DASHBOARD] section of the eg_ui.ini file in the <EG_INSTALL_DIR>\manager\config directory.

  • By default, the ShowCustomDashboard flag is set to Yes. To disable the capability to view / modify / build new custom dashboards that are application-independent, switch off this flag by setting it to No.

  • Finally, save the file.

Note:

  • By default, the user who creates a dashboard is the only one who is authorized to view / modify / delete that dashboard.

  • Users can create custom dashboards using only those components that are assigned to them for monitoring.

Follow the steps given below to build My Dashboard:

  1. Select Dashboards under the My Dashboard menu from the Dashboards section that appears upon clicking the icon available against the Monitor tab.

  2. If no dashboards pre-exist in the AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page, then “No Dashboards available” message will appear. If multiple dashboards pre-exists, then the dashboard that was created soon after clicking the Add New button will be set as the default dashboard.

  3. If any dashboards pre-exists for the components that are being monitored, then, upon clicking icon, will display all the pre-existing dashboards as individual tiles in the AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page. The eG Enterprise system automatically sorts these dashboards in the ascending order of their names while listing. If other users to the eG Enterprise system have shared one/more dashboards that they created with you, then such dashboards will be displayed along the name of the user who shared the dashboard in parentheses. For example, if a dashboard named “Host Performance” was shared by a user named “Durga”, then the dashboard will be represented as Host Performance (Durga).

  4. If you want to list all the pre-exisiting dashboards, then you can click the icon. This will list the dashboards in ascending order as shown in AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page.

  5. If other users to the eG Enterprise system have shared one/more dashboards that they created with you, then such dashboards will be listed in the Dashboards shared by other users section. Besides listing the names of the shared dashboards, this section will also display (in the Shared by column) who shared each of the listed dashboards with you. Shared dashboards can only be viewed (not modified or deleted). To view a shared dashboard, click on the NAME of the dashboard, or click on the icon that corresponds to each dashboard.

  6. To view any of the existing dashboards, click on the icon corresponding to each dashboard in the AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page. If you want to delete any of the listed dashboards, click the icon corresponding to each dashboard. To remove all dashboards, select the check box that pre-fixes each dashboard, and then click the icon. To search for a dashboard from the list of pre-existing dashboards, enter the name of the dashboard in the Search Dashboard text box and click the icon within.

  7. To publish any of the existing dashboards through Microsoft SharePoint to other users in your organization, click on the icon corresponding to each dashboard. The Publish Dashboard window will then appear listing the Name and the Publish Url of the dashboard that is to be published.

    Clicking the Publish button will help you publish the chosen dashboard. Once the dashboard is published, the icon will appear along with the Name of the dashboard as shown in the AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page.

    You can hover over the icon to view the Publish URL at any point of time. Likewise, you can unpublish a published dashboard by clicking the icon corresponding to each published dashboard. The Ununpublish Dashboard pop up window will then appear. Clicking the Unpublish button in the Unpublish Dashboard pop up window will unpublish the dashboard.

    Note:

    When the dashboard is accessed through the Publish URL, the dashboard shows the time at which the dashboard was last updated. The displayed time will be in the time zone in which the user created the dashboard.

    If you do not want to publish the dashboards created in your environment and wish to remove the icon, then, you can do so by setting the hidePublishedDashboard option to Yes in the [DASHBOARD_SETTINGS] section of the eg_customdashboard.ini file available in the <eG_INSTALL_DIR>./manager/config folder. Note that before you set the hidePublishedDashboard option to Yes, ensure that you have unpublished all the dashboards in your environment.

  8. eG Enterprise offers the flexibility to build real time business dashboards using the My Dashboards capability by obtaining data from various external sources like REST API, SQL queries, CSV, Microsoft EXCEL etc. For this purpose, a Data Source button is provided in the AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page.

  9. To modify the dashboard on the fly, click on the icon. The Modify Dashboard pop up window will then appear allowing you to modify the settings of the dashboard that is currently being built.

  10. To create a new dashboard, click on the Add New button in the AVAILABLE DASHBOARDS page. This will invoke the CHOOSE DASHBOARD TYPE window where you can either choose to create a new dashboard on your own or create a dashboard based on a pre-defined template. To create a new dashboard on your own, select the CUSTOM DASHBOARD option. To know how to create the custom dashboard of your interest, refer to Adding a custom dashboard. If you wish to create a new dashboard based on a pre-defined template, select the ONE CLICK DASHBOARD option. To know how to create the one click dashboard, refer to Adding an One-click dashboard.

  11. You can even personalize the background of your dashboard by clicking the icon. The Dashboard Background pop up window will then appear listing a set of background themes. Clicking on any background theme will change the dashboard background accordingly. You can also import any image of your interest as a dashboard's background to reflect your interest or mood by simply uploading an image using the Choose file option available in the UPLOAD YOUR OWN section.

  12. If the dashboard that you are currently building is not the default dashboard, then an additional icon will appear which when clicked will set that particular dashboard as the default dashboard.

  13. If you wish to view the dashboard that is set as default dashboard, then click on the icon.

  14. If you wish to open the dashboard in a separate window, then you can do so by clicking the icon.