OVNPM 1.5.2 - Performance Agent for NonStop Display Agent Guide

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5 Dashboards
5-1 What are Dashboards?
Dashboards are the sets of OVNPM views and reports that you manage as a group.
You have two types of dashboards that can appear in the Dashboard desktop window:
• Server-Defined or Predefined
• User-Defined
You can modify user-defined dashboards; however, you cannot modify server-defined dashboards. Server-
defined dashboards are created during the installation phase, and are automatically sent to the Display Agent.
You can create any number of user-defined dashboards. This enables you to keep a series of display sets
available, each tailored for particular requirements or groups of resources.
Within a user-defined dashboard you maintain full control over the individual views and reports, such as their
display mode, appearance, and granularity of detail. All functions that apply to individual views and reports are
accessible from a dashboard.
A dashboard can include any combination of display elements from the OVNPM components as listed in the
following table:
OVNPM Component Display Element (View) Data
SystemInsight Five Display Modes Current and Recent Past
SystemReport Tabular Data Current and Recent Past
SystemTrend One Display Mode Historical Trend Analysis
Within the context of a dashboard, all display elements that you include in a dashboard are known as views.
Since dashboards are an ideal medium to provide monitoring of many dynamic resources simultaneously, they
often contain real-time graphic views.
You can designate a dashboard for OVNPM to open automatically whenever the Display Agent is started.
Dashboards