Text views allows you to insert provided text. The text can be dynamic and contain metrics and properties. You can format text to increase or decrease the font size, change the font color, highlight text, and align text to the left, right, or center. You can also make the selected text appear bold, in italics, or underlined. By default the text view is available only for report template creation and modification. You can change this in the Visibility option in the Name and Configuration tab.
Where You Find the Text View
From the left menu, click . From the Views panel, click Create. Click Text from the right panel.
Name and Configuration Tab
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Name of the view as it appears on the Views page. |
| Description | Description of the view. |
| Settings | |
| Make the view available for > Dashboards through the View widget | Select if you want to make the view available in a dashboard. |
| Make the view available for > Report template creation and modification | Select if you want to make the view available in a report template. This is the default option. |
| Make the view available for > Details tab in the environment | Select if you want to make the view available in the Detail tab of a specific object. |
| Hide the view for the selected object types | Select an object type for which you do not want to see this view. For example, you have a list view with the subject <virtual machines>. It is visible when you select any of its parent objects. You add a data center from the list. The view is not visible anymore on the data center level. |
Data Tab
The data definition process includes adding properties, metrics, policies, or data that adapters provide to a view. These are the items by which VMware Aria Operations collects, calculates, and presents the information for the view.
How to Add Data to a View
If you selected more than one subject, click the subject for which you add data. Double-click the data from the tree in the left panel to add it to the view. For each subject, the data available to add might be different. The data and configuration details are displayed.
You can see a live preview of the view type when you select a subject and associated data, and then click Select preview source.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Add Subject | Select the base object type for which the view shows information. The subject you specify determines where the view is applicable. If you select more than one subject, the view is applicable for each of them. |
| Data Grid options | |
| Data selection tree | Select a metric or property. |
| Data column | Click the metric or property to enter configuration details in the Configuration column. You can also enter text to display in the view. |
| Configuration column | |
| Metric name | Default metric name. |
| Metric label | Customizable label as it appears in the view or report. |
| Units | Depends on the added metric or property. You can select in what unit to display the values. For example, for CPU|Demand(MHz) from the Units drop-down menu, you can change the value to Hz, KHz, or GHz. If you select Auto, the scaling is set to a meaningful unit. |
| Transformation |
Determines what calculation method is applied on the raw data. You can select the type of transformation:
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| Series Roll up | The time interval at which the data is rolled up. You can select one of the available options. For example, if you select Sum as a Transformation and 5 minutes as the roll-up interval, then the system selects 5-minute interval values and adds them. This option is applicable to the Transformation configuration option. |
Time Settings
Use the time settings to select the time interval of data transformation. These options are available for all view types, except Image.
You can set a time range for a past period or set a future date for the end of the time period. When you select a future end date and no data is available, the view is populated by forecast data. Data is calculated based on the browser time.
| Configuration Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Time Range Mode | In Basic mode, you can select date ranges. In Advanced mode, you can select any combination of relative or specific start and end dates. |
| Relative Date Range | Select a relative date range of data transformation. Available in Basic mode. |
| Specific Date Range | Select a specific date range of data transformation. Available in Basic mode. |
| Absolute Date Range | Select a date or time range to view data for a time unit such as a complete month or a week. For example, you can run a report on the third of every month for the previous month. Data from the first to the end of the previous month is displayed as against data from the third of the previous month to the third of the current month. The units of time available are: Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years. The locale settings of the system determine the start and end of the unit. For example, weeks in most of the European countries begin on Monday while in the United States they begin on Sunday. Available in Basic mode. |
| Relative Start Date | Select a relative start date of data transformation. Available in Advanced mode. |
| Relative End Date | Select a relative end date of data transformation. Available in Advanced mode. |
| Specific Start Date | Select a specific start date of data transformation. Available in Advanced mode. |
| Specific End Date | Select a specific end date of data transformation. Available in Advanced mode. |
| Currently selected date range | Displays the date or time range you selected. For example, if you select a specific date range from 5/01/2016 to 5/18/2016, the following information is displayed: |
Filter
The filter option allows you to add additional criteria when the view displays too much information.
To add a filter to a view, from an existing or new view dialog box, click the Filter tab. Fill in the details for each row and click Add.
Each subject has a separate filter box. For Alerts Roll up, Alert, and Symptom subjects not all applicable metrics are supported for filtering.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Add | Adds another criteria to the criteria set. The filter returns results that match all the specified criteria. If you add a filter for an instance metric or property, all the instances of the object for which the criteria is met, will be displayed in the preview screen. For instance metrics or properties, you can filter based on transformations such as, Current, Average, First, Last, Maximum, Minimum, Sum, and Timestamp. |
| Add another criteria set | Adds another criteria set. The filter returns results that match one criteria set or another. |
Previous, Next, Create, and Cancel Options
At the end of each tab, you can go to the previous or next tab. You can also cancel the creation of the view. After you have added all the details, click Create to create the view.
