Create Health Dashboard

This section helps you in creating a Health Dashboard.

Procedure

1. Go to https://<Telcocloud serviceassurance-ui-IP.
   A typical URL for logging in to the user interface from the same system on which VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance is installed is, https://10.x.x.x.
2. Enter username and password.
3. Click Next.
4. Click Dashboards & Reports.
   The Grafana homepage appears.

   

5. On the Grafana homepage, click the + icon.
6. Click New Dashboard.
7. Click Add Visualization.
   
8. In the Select Data Source search box type and select the data source. For example, Network-Interface.
   
9. Click the Visualizations tab and select a vizualization type.
   
10. In the Query field, define the query as required. For example, Lucene.
11. In the Metric field, select the required metrics. For example, CurrentUtilization.
    
12. In the Group by field, select the required parameters. For example, Date Histogram, @timestamp, and Interval: auto.
13. On the right pane, in the Panel Options section, enter the panel title, description, and other required fields.
14. Click Save.
    The Save Dashboard dialog window appears.
15. In the Title field, enter a name for the dashboard.
16. In the Description field, enter a description for the dashboard.
17. From the Dashboards drop-down menu, select a dashboard to save the report.
18. Click Save, to save the report to the dashboard.
    The dashboard is created.

    Note: While developing dashboards that will be used for Health dashboard, it is essential to create and use the following dashboard variables:

    • DeviceName
    • ManagedEntity

    When the Health Dashboard is launched in context of a selected Notification or Topology entity, the DeviceName and ManagedEntity values are passed to the Health Dashboard.

19. Click the settings icon .
    
20. Click the Variables tab.
21. Click Add Variable.
    
22. From the Select Variable Type drop-down menu, select Query.
    
23. In the Name field, under the General section, type DeviceName.
24. In the Show on Dashboard field, under the General section, select Nothing.
25. In the Data Source drop-down menu, under the Query Options section, select Network-Interface.
26. In the Query field, under the Query Options section, type the query. For example, {"find":"terms","field":"deviceName.keyword"}.
27. Click Apply.
28. Click + New Variable.
    
29. From the Select Variable Type drop-down menu, select Query.
    
30. In the Name field, under the General section, type ManagedEntity.
31. In the Show on Dashboard field, under the General section, select Nothing.
32. In the Data Source drop-down menu, under the Query Options section, select Network-Interface.
33. In the Query field, under the Query Options section, type the query. For example, {"find":"terms","field":"entityName.keyword", "query": "deviceName.keyword:$DeviceName"}.
34. Click Apply.
35. Click Save Dashboard.
    The Save Dashboard dialog window appears.
36. Click Save, to save the variables to the dashboard.
37. Click the dashboard name on the breadcrumbs to go to the dashboard in which the variables are saved.
    
38. Hover the mouse pointer over the Panel Title section, click the ellipse icon and then click Edit.
    
39. Add the query in the Query field. For example, deviceName.keyword:$DeviceName AND deviceName.keyword:$ManagedEntity.
    
40. Click Apply to apply the variables to the health dashboard.
41. Map the dashboard for a given class type. For more information, see Map Health Dashboard.