The Custom Dashboards feature is designed to allow you a more customized display of your everyday activities within the CAMM product. By default, the CAMM UI displays the most active components for the major entity categories. Examples include high-level entities such as Portals, BPEL Processes, ESBs, and Web Services as well as architectural infrastructure entities such as servers.
Custom Dashboards allows you to create your own dashboards and then utilize these dashboards as either the default display or as your own customized viewpoints. They are much more powerful than custom views because you have the ability to modify the various entities significantly as opposed to simply being able to drag-and-drop from existing views into a combined perspective.
This chapter includes the following sections:
To initiate the creation of a new custom dashboard, click the Custom Dashboards tab in the lower-left hand pane of the CAMM UI.
There are five different out-of-box layout templates to help format custom dashboards. Select the one with the appropriate layout for the custom dashboard you are looking for.
Click the Custom Dashboards option in the bottom left pane to view the templates. Each template has a different layout for components.
To configure custom components, perform the following steps:
Double-click a Customizable Component area to configure what you would like to include in each component.
Select a component from the drop-down list, for example, the Table type.
Construct the contents for the table component using the options in the Edit Table window.
Click Entity Selection.
Select the entries in the Entity table. The selections have to be logical and have a unique entry for each entity.
Click Select Entity to continue with the configuration.
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Entity Type names are displayed in the SLO configuration, so you can use the information displayed on that screen to determine the Entity Type for a given metric.Click Define Aggregation.
The key selected must aggregate by the same key metric name.
Click OK.
Click Column Selection.
Click the column type buttons as needed on this window to add a column and its label. For example, click Add Formula and type in $1*$2 . This means column 1 times column 2.
Type in the labels for the columns added. The labels display in the component table header for each column.
You can click the Up, Down or Delete buttons to edit the columns.
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You must add at least one Property or Metric for the Table View to be displayed. The column types display with an abbreviated letter under the Type column. The sequential numbers on the left of this window indicate the column numbers used for formulas.Tip:
Metric names are displayed in the SLO configuration, so you can use the information displayed on that screen to determine the correct name for a given metric.Click the Show check mark to indicate if that column should display in the component table after you are done configuring.
Click OK to save the changes and return to the previous window.
You can map the navigation functionality in the new customer dashboard to other views in order to simplify the overall presentation by adding drill-down capabilities. Note that only expert users such as Oracle support services should utilize this feature because it requires a strong knowledge of the mapping capabilities as well as the application itself.
Views can be selected from a drop-down list, but once completed, you must take extra care to ensure that IDs match up appropriately to handle the drill-down event.
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Contact Oracle Support Services if you are interested in this advanced navigation view feature.You can use charts to provide graphical metrics in the custom dashboard. Routinely, these metrics are the key purpose of setting up the dashboard and are contextually linked to the other custom components being displayed. You can configure various graphs to display the metrics as desired.
Double-click again on a different Customizable Component area to configure what you would like to include in each component and select Chart from the drop-down list.
You may choose the dimensions of the chart as well as the chart type. Metrics in the chart can be represented by either a pie chart or time series.
Select Time Series Chart Type.
Click OK.
Click Entity Selection.
Select the entries in the Entity table. The selections have to be logical and have a unique entry for each entity.
Click Select Entity to continue with the configuration.
Tip:
Entity Type names are displayed in the SLO configuration, so you can use the information displayed on that screen to determine the Entity Type for a given metric.Next, configure a label which can be comprised of any type of text or HTML. A label would routinely be used to provide additional context within the scope of the custom dashboard. An example would be to provide a detailed label for the dashboard to make the content instantly recognizable by colleagues utilizing the new dashboard.
Double-click again on a different Customizable Component area to configure what you would like to include in each component and select Label from the drop-down list.
Provide text in the edit box representing what should be displayed in the custom dashboard and select the text alignment from the drop-down menu.
Click OK.
Next, configure an Image custom component. Custom images are static images that are uploaded to the CAMM Manager. They are kept in a server-side format. The most common usage of this feature is to provide you with either a static visual context for the overall information being viewed or to provide a more branded look to the overall custom dashboard being utilized. For a branded look, a company logo might be uploaded and displayed as part of the new custom dashboard.
Double-click again on a different Customizable Component area to configure what you would like to include in each component and select Image from the drop-down list.
Titles can be changed by a simple right-click. By default, the Custom Components in the template are named numerically as Test #1, Test #2, Test #3, and so forth.
When you have completed configuring the components:
Type in a view name in the Dashboard Editor window.
Click Save View.
The new template shows in the Custom Dashboards list.
You can use an existing template and duplicate it to edit its configurations without having to recreate a template from scratch.
To duplicate a template, double-click its name from the Custom Dashboards window.
Type in a new name in the View Name field.
Click Save View As.
The new template view shows in the Custom Dashboards list.
The tabbed dashboard view displays in the right pane directly across from the Oracle Tree node. You can create and customize the tabbed view using the Custom Dashboards.
Click Create Tabbed.
Type in the View Name. This name appears in the Custom Dashboards list window.
Click Add Tab.
Select the view for this tab from the displayed list.
Click Create Tab.
Type in the Tab Name in the empty text box.
Continue to add tabs as needed.
Click Save View.
Use this option to assign a role with read, or read and write, permissions for others to view the dashboard. This allows other users to utilize the custom dashboard. Note that any changes or deletions made to an existing shared dashboard will affect all users that are referencing it.
Once you create a new dashboard, you can view it by navigating to the navigation tree in the lower left-hand pane of the CAMM UI.
In addition, you can select your custom dashboard as the main dashboard display by selecting Set Dashboard View from the lower left-hand navigation bar and accessing the right-click menu. You will be presented with a list of existing custom dashboards to select from. Once selected. the new custom dashboard will be displayed when the CAMM UI starts up or if you selects the top-most node. Note that the default dashboard can be assigned by using the top menu bar in addition to the navigation tree.