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Component documentationDashboards and Dashboard Apps

 

Dashboards can display large amounts of information in a concise form, to give you a quick overview of its topics. SAP provides a dashboard framework in SAP Solution Manager. These dashboards comprise several apps which each output information and process an aspect of the topic.

SAP delivers dashboards and apps about various topics, in various work centers. You can use the framework and adjust the delivered apps to your requirements.

The Dashboard Framework user interface comprises three main components:

  • Dashboards

    A dashboard can, for example, be called directly from a work center. The dashboard displays small images of its apps in a screen. Choose one to expand it. You can configure a dashboard by adding additional apps, changing the order of the apps, or removing apps that you do not require (see Configuring Dashboards).

  • Dashboard Apps

    Apps output information. All relevant information of an app is visible without further user input.

  • Configuration apps

    Most delivered apps have a configuration app, with which you can adjust it to your requirements, for example to specify headers or other texts to be displayed, or to change the app data.

Integration

Dashboards do not need to be specially set up. The associated application must be configured to collect the data to be displayed by the apps.

Example Example

The End User Experience Monitoring and Alert Management Reporting dashboards use the monitoring and alerting infrastructure data in the Business Warehouse. For these apps, in SAP Solution Manager setup (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), you must have performed Start of the navigation path System & Application Monitoring Next navigation step End User Experience End of the navigation path.

End of the example.

The following dashboard apps are available to you also in the iPad app SAP Solution Manager Dashboards:

Dashboard

Dashboard App

Dashboard for Business Process Operations

  • BPO dashboard 1D rating table

  • BPO dashboard 2D rating table

  • BPO dashboard 2D chart

Dashboard for System Landscape Entities

Dashboard for IT Service Management

  • Message quality

  • Workload

Application Operations

Service Availability Management (SAM)

  • SAM Availability

  • SAM Uptime

Technical Monitoring Dashboard

For more information, see Start of the navigation path https://service.sap.com/instguidesInformation published on SAP site Next navigation step SAP Components Next navigation step SAP Mobile Next navigation step SAP Mobile Applications Next navigation step SAP Solution Manager End of the navigation path.

Features

SAP delivers dashboards for the following topics:

  • Alert Management Reporting

    This dashboard shows the number and distribution of alerts, support messages and the processing time of alerts, in your managed systems.

  • Business Process Operations

    This dashboard shows the SAP business processes managed by SAP Solution Manager, graphically.

  • Dashboards for Custom Code Management and Data Volume Management

    The dashboards use fully adjustable scorecards to provide an overview of how various aspects of your business are performing in relation to predefined objectives. You set technical or business-related objectives and track the progress towards these objectives using KPIs and value drivers.

  • Security Dashboard

    This dashboard contains apps to validate the security of the SAP system configuration.

  • Dashboard for Test Management

    This dashboard contains an app which gives an overview of the progress of your test plans.

As well as these topic-oriented dashboards, you have a personal dashboard, which is delivered empty by SAP, to which you can add apps from all categories. Choose Configure, and Add New App, in this dashboard (see also Configuring Dashboards).

Note Note

Do not add any Alert Management apps to your personal dashboard, because they require the specification of a time period, which is not possible in this dashboard.

End of the note.

To put your personal dashboard in your Favorites in the SAP Easy Access screen, proceed as follows:

  1. In the SAP Easy Access menu, call Start of the navigation path Favorites Next navigation step Add Other Objects End of the navigation path.

  2. From the list in the Restrictions screen, choose Web-Dynpro Applications.

  3. On the Web Dynpro Application screen, in the Web Dynpro Application field, enter the name generic_dashboard_viewer.

  4. Enter a description, for example Personal Dashboard.

  5. Insert a row in the table Parameter, in the Name column, enter ALIAS, and in the Value column, enter PERSONAL_DASHBOARD.