2.4. Dashboards

A dashboard is a collection of related reports that provide a summary of resource usage in the virtualized environment. Dashboards feature an active control panel, allowing quick adjustment of the parameters. Though a dashboard cannot be exported or printed, each of the reports in a dashboard can be opened separately to export, print, save, or adjust the data.

Dashboards can be created and configured using the Designer, in the Reports Portal. For more information on dashboards, consult the JasperReports documentation by clicking the Help in the top menu bar of the Reports Portal.

The Inventory Dashboard provides an executive summary of the inventory of a data center over a given period of time. The dashboard includes average disk use, number of active virtual machines, and a breakdown of host operating systems. The following parameters can be modified for this dashboard:

The Trends Dashboard provides an executive summary of the trends in a data center over a given period of time. The dashboard includes graphs of CPU and memory usage over time for the most highly utilized hosts and virtual machines in the data center. The following parameters can be modified for this dashboard:

The Uptime Dashboard provides an executive summary of the service level and uptime for a data center over a given period of time. The dashboard includes details on total uptime for each cluster in the data center for the period. The following parameters can be modified for this dashboard:

The Administration Portal also features dashboards for data centers, clusters, and the overall environment. Select the appropriate resource in tree mode and click the Dashboard resource tab to display the dashboard information in the results list.

The dashboards accessible in the Administration Portal are used for viewing data, as such they do not have an active control panel. Configure these dashboards in the Reports Portal by editing Datacenter Dashboard, Cluster Dashboard, and System Dashboard.