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Manage custom dashboards

Custom dashboard management enables operators to customize a dashboard by dragging the

monitoring items to the panel.

Restrictions and guidelines

• On a line chart, move the cursor along a line until it becomes the icon to view the tip.

• On a line chart, if a legend name is incomplete, view its full name on the tip.

Add a dashboard

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Ops.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Custom Dashboards.

  3. Click Add Dashboard.

    ○ Name: Enter the name of the dashboard.

    ○ Monitoring Panel Title: Enter the title of the dashboard.

    ○ Icon: Select the dashboard icon.

    ○ Background: Select the dashboard background.

    ○ Width: Set the width of the dashboard, in pixels.

○ Height: Set the height of the dashboard, in pixels.

○ Replace Default: Select whether to replace the default dashboard. If you turn on this feature, the default dashboard will be replaced by the custom dashboard.

  1. Click the dashboard to enter the panel page.

  2. Click Enter Design Mode to design the dashboard.

  3. Click the target monitoring item in the right of the page. The monitoring item control is added to the panel area.

  4. Configure the parameters of the monitoring item control if needed. For more information, see "Parameters."

    ○ The following monitoring items require further configuration: Custom VM Monitoring, Custom Host Monitoring, Custom Shared File System Monitoring, Custom Top5 Hosts Monitoring, and Custom Top5 VMs Monitoring.

    ○ The following monitoring items do not require further configuration: System Health, Host Health, CPU Overcommit, Memory Overcommit, Shared Storage Overcommit, System Alarms, Host States, and VM States.

  5. After the configuration is complete, you can perform the following operations in the panel:

    ○ Click the icon to save the dashboard settings.

    ○ Click the icon to select all controls in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to align top for the controls in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to align bottom for the controls in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to align left for the controls in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to align right for the controls in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to distribute the controls evenly and horizontally in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to distribute the controls evenly and vertically in the panel.

    ○ Click the icon to save and preview the monitoring panel layout.

    ○ Hover on the icon to view shortcuts descriptions.

    ○ Click the icon to exit the design mode.

Edit a dashboard

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Ops.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Custom Dashboards.

  3. Click the icon in the top right of the panel.

  4. Edit the parameters as needed, and then click OK. (See "Parameters.")

  5. Click the dashboard to enter the panel page.

  6. Click Enter Design Mode to design the dashboard.

  7. To delete a monitoring item, click the icon on the top right of the widget.

  8. To edit the parameters, click the on the top right of the corresponding widgets. See "Parameters."

  9. Click Save to save the dashboard modifications.

  10. Click OK.

  11. Click the icon to exit design mode.

Clone a dashboard

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Ops.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Custom Dashboards.

  3. Click the icon on the top right of the panel.

  4. Enter the name of the clone dashboard, and then click OK.

Delete a dashboard

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Ops.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Custom Dashboards.

  3. Click the icon on the top right of the target dashboard.

  4. In the dialog box that opens, click OK.

Display custom dashboard information

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Ops.

  2. From the left navigation pane, select Custom Dashboards.

  3. Click the target dashboard.

  4. To view the information in full screen mode, click Full Screen.

  5. To exit full screen mode, click the back button in the browser.

Parameters

• System Health: Average health value of all hosts in the system.

○ The CPU, memory, or storage health value is calculated as follows: When the CPU, memory, or storage usage is greater than 80%, in the range of 60% to 80%, and smaller than 60%, the CPU, memory, or storage health value is in the range of 0 to 50, 51 to 80, and 81 to 100, respectively.

○ The network health value is calculated as follows: When the network throughput is greater than 1024 Mbps, in the range of 500 to 1024 Mbps, and smaller than 500 Mbps, the network health value is in the range of 0 to 50, 51 to 80, and 81 to 100, respectively.

○ The host health value is calculated as follows: Host health=CPU health × 0.3 + memory health × 0.4 + storage health × 0.15 + network health × 0.15

• Host Health: Health value of each host in the management platform.

• CPU Overcommit

○ Host CPUs: Number of CPU cores on all hosts.

○ VM CPUs: Number of CPU cores on all VMs.

○ Overcommit: Host CPU core usage, which is the ratio between the VM CPU cores and the host CPU cores.

• Memory Overcommit

○ Host Memory: Total memory size of all hosts.

○ VM Memory: Total memory size of all VMs.

○ Overcommit: Host memory usage, which is the ratio between the VM memory and the host memory.

• Shared Storage Overcommit

○ Total: Total shared storage size.

○ Available: Available shared storage size.

○ Overcommit: Shared storage usage, which is the ratio between the used storage and the total storage.

• System Alarms: Number of alarms for each alarm level, including critical, major, minor, and tip.

• Host States: Total host number and number of hosts in different states (including normal, abnormal, maintain, and quarantine).

• VM States: Total VM number and number of VMs in different states (including normal, shutdown, and abnormal).

• Custom Host Monitoring: Custom host monitoring information. The vertical axis represents CPU usage, memory usage, I/O throughput (Kbps), network throughput (Mbps), disk request (IOPS), or disk I/O delay (ms). The horizontal axis represents time and the unit is 30 seconds.

• Custom VM Monitoring: Custom VM monitoring information. The vertical axis represents CPU usage, memory usage, I/O throughput (Kbps), network throughput (Mbps), CPU frequency (MHz), disk request (IOPS), or disk I/O delay (ms). The horizontal axis represents time and the unit is 30 seconds.

• Custom Shared File System Monitoring: Custom shared file system monitoring information. The vertical axis represents I/O throughput (Kbps) or disk request (IOPS). The horizontal axis represents time and the unit is 30 seconds.

• Custom Top5 Hosts Monitoring: Custom top 5 hosts monitoring information. The vertical axis represents CPU usage or memory usage. The horizontal axis represents time and the unit is 30 seconds.

• Custom Top5 VMs Monitoring: Custom top 5 VMs monitoring information. The vertical axis represents CPU usage or memory usage. The horizontal axis represents time and the unit is 30 seconds.