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To get a quick and intuitive overview of important or frequently used monitors, you can add them to the dashboard, which was designed to display monitors in form of graphs or tachometers. You must first have created a monitor tree as described in the Monitoring System Performance section. You can create dashboard dials for leaf nodes with integer values only, these have one or more values in the value column.

Dashboard dials can be moved up, down and sideways, allowing you to position them where you like using drag-and-drop. The way you set the dials has an influence on their size. You should always enter a minimum and a maximum value, which for CPU usage monitor, for example, would be 0 and 100 respectively. If you do not provide a maximum and a minimum, a scale will be generated based on the maximum and minimum value measured, this scale can be reset.

The following dial-types are available:

  • Graph - a diagram showing current load and load-history

  • Tacho - a speedometer-like dial that displays the current load

  • History Tacho - a speedometer-like dial that displays the current load with graph dial built-in to show load-history

  • Job Status Pie Chart - a circular diagram in 3d showing proportional representations

Actions

Action

Description

Reset Scale

Reset the computed scale

Edit

Edit the dial

Delete

Delet the dial

Dashboard > Edit

Edit the current dshboard

Dashboard > Delete

Delete the current dashboard with all dials on it

Create dashboard dial

Create a new dial from a monitor leaf-node

Procedure

To create a dashboard

  1. Navigate to   Monitoring → Dashboard  .

  2. Choose Create from the context menu and fill in at least the Name field.

  3. Choose Save & Close.

Add a dial for a monitor leaf node

  1. Navigate to   Monitoring → Dashboard   and select the desired dashboard from the drop-down list.

  2. Navigate to   Monitoring → Monitors   and drill down the monitor tree until you have reached the desired leaf node.

  3. Choose Create dashboard dial from the context menu of the monitor leaf node.

  4. In the new Window, it is recommended to change the name with a descriptive Label as well as a desired dial Type, if you choose Graph, you should set the minimum and maximum values.

  5. Choose Save & Close and navigate to   Monitoring → Dashboard   to verify the new dial gets displayed, you might have to refresh the tab. You can move the dial via its context menu.

To decrease the update intervall of platform agent monitoring data

  1. Navigate to   Environment → Process Servers  .

  2. Choose Stop from the context menu of the process server belonging to the platform agent.

  3. Choose Edit from the context menuof the same process server.

  4. On the Parameters tab, add or modify the value of the process server parameter MonitorInterval, for example 3 seconds.

  5. Choose Save & Close

  6. Choose Start from the context menu ofthe process server.

Values

Field

Description

Default Value

Label

The display name of the dial

<The name of the monitor leaf node>

Type

The type of dial

Graph or tacho

Minimum

The minimum value of the scale

Maximum

The maximum value of the scale

History time

The time data is kept in the graph

Monitor Value

The value that gets displayed

<The name of the monitor leaf node>