The Scoreboard widget shows the current value for each metric of objects that you select.
How the Scoreboard Widget and Configuration Options Work
Each metric appears in a separate box. The value of the metric determines the color of the box. You define the ranges for each color when you edit the widget. You can customize the widget to use a sparkline chart to show the trend of changes of each metric. If you point to a box, the widget shows the source object and metric data. Icons in the box indicate the level of criticality.
You edit a Scoreboard widget after you add it to a dashboard. The widget can display metrics of the objects selected during editing of the widget or selected on another widget. When the Scoreboard widget is not in Self Provider mode, it shows metrics defined in a configuration XML file that you select in the Metric Configuration. It shows 10 predefined metrics if you do not select an XML file or if the type of the selected object is not defined in the XML file.
For example, you can configure the Scoreboard widget to use the sample Scoreboard metric configuration and to receive objects from the Topology Graph widget. When you select a host on a Topology Graph widget, the Scoreboard widget shows the workload, memory, and CPU usage of the host.
To set a source widget that is on the same dashboard, you must use the Widget Interactions menu when you edit a dashboard. To set a source widget that is on another dashboard, you must use the Dashboard Navigation menu when you edit the source dashboard.
Where You Find the Scoreboard Widget
The widget might be included on any of your custom dashboards. From the left menu, click
to see your configured dashboards.To customize the data that appears in the dashboard widget, from the left menu, click Dashboards panel, click Create. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards panel, select the dashboard you want to edit and select . Toggle between the Views and Widgets option to view and add a widget or view to the dashboard. The widgets list panel displays a list of all the predefined widgets. Drag a widget to the dashboard workspace in the upper panel.
. To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From theScoreboard Widget Configuration Options
On the title bar of the widget, click the Edit Widget icon to configure the widget.
The configuration options are grouped into one or more sections. You can select the objects on which you want to base the widget data and refine the objects in the following sections. Each section filters the objects further and pushes the filtered objects to the next section. The widget data is based on the objects that are the output of the last section.
The Configuration section provides general configuration options for the widget.
The Input Data section provides options to specify input for the widget. This section appears when the widget is in self provider mode.
The Input Transformation section provides options to transform the input for the widget.
The Output Data section provides options to select object types on which you are basing the widget data.
The Output Filter section provides options to restrict the widget data based on the selected filter criteria.
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Title | Enter a custom title that identifies this widget from other instances that are based on the same widget template. |
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Refresh Content | Activate or deactivate the automatic refreshing of the data in this widget. If not activated, the widget is updated only when the dashboard is opened or when you click the Refresh button on the widget in the dashboard. |
Refresh Interval | If you activate the Refresh Content option, specify how often to refresh the data in this widget. |
Self Provider |
Indicates whether the objects for which data appears in the widget are defined in the widget or provided by another widget.
When the Scoreboard widget is not in self-provider mode, it shows metrics defined in a configuration XML file that you select in the Metric Configuration. |
Round Decimals | Select the number of decimal places to round the scores that the widget displays. |
Box Columns | Select the number of columns that appear in the widget. |
Layout Mode | Select a Fixed Size or Fixed View layout. |
Fixed Size Fixed View |
Use these options to customize the size of the box for each object. |
Old metric values | Select Show if you want the widget to show the previous value of the metric, if the current value is not available. Select Hide to hide the previous value of the metric, if the current value is not available. |
Visual Theme | Select a predefined visual style for each instance of the widget. |
Max Scores Count | Use these menus to customize the format of the scores that the widget displays. |
Show | Select one or more of the following items to display in the widget:
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Period Length | Select a length of time for the statistic information that the sparkline chart displays. |
Show DT | Select an option to show or hide the dynamic threshold for the sparkline chart. |
Input Data | |
Metrics |
Select metrics on which you want to base the widget data. You can select an object and pick its metrics.
Optionally, you can customize a metric and apply the customization to other metrics in the list.
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Objects |
Select objects on which you want to base the widget data.
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All | If you select this option, the widget data is based on all the objects in your environment. The following sections provide options to refine the objects for the widget data. |
Input Transformation | |
Relationship | Transform the input for the widget based on the relationship of the objects. For example, if you select the Children check box and a Depth of 1, the child objects are the transformed inputs for the widget. |
Output Data | |
Empty drop-down menu | Specifies a list with attributes to display. |
Add metrics based on object types. The objects corresponding to the selected metrics are the basis for the widget data.
Optionally, you can customize a metric and apply the customization to other metrics in the list.
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Output Filter | |
Refine the widget data further based on the filter criteria for object types. The widget data is based on the objects for the filtered object types. If the objects have a tag filter applied in the Basic subsection, you define filter criteria for the object types of the objects with tag filter applied. If the objects with tag filter applied do not belong to any of the object types in this filter criteria, the widget skips this filter and includes all the objects with tag filter applied. If the objects have an input transformation applied, you define filter criteria for the object types of the transformed objects.
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