Overview

The configuration tasks for VMware Smart Assurance Business Dashboard depend on how you intend to deploy it. A simple deployment could use the sample viewlets as an VMware Smart Assurance Business Dashboard to display information from a Global Manager. A more complicated deployment could involve creating new HTML pages to display Dashboard viewlets, configuring the display of viewlets, creating an on-demand URL addressable viewlet, or integrating a viewlet with a portal.

The configuration steps necessary to provide these deployments are described in this chapter and involve one or more of the following tasks:

• Configuring the Tomcat Servlet Engine or an alternative web server

• Configuring user accounts on the Global Manager

• Creating saved viewlets with the Global Console

• Writing HTML to display viewlets

• Creating a URL-addressable viewlet