Custom Reportlet Dashboards

You can create reportlet dashboards based on multiple reportlets from the same or different Extension Packs.

Say that you needed to monitor the following:

• Hourly utilization of Interface A on Component X
• Average normal CPU utilization for Component X
• Number of days left for memory utilization to reach threshold

You could create a custom dashboard that combines the following reportlets:

• Interface Health Heat Chart Report for the metric Utilization (avg)

• Component Health Simple Chart Report for the following metrics:

  • Primary metric: Memory Utilization - Baseline Average (avg)
  • Secondary metric:CPU 5min Utilization - Days to Threshold (min)

Create a Custom Reportlet Dashboard with the iSPI Performance BI Server Portal

Task 1: Log on to NPS

Task 2: Copy bookmarks for the reportlets to include in the dashboard

1. On the NPS home page, click the Reports tab.
2. Select an Extension Pack; for example, iSPI Metrics > Interface_Health > InterfaceMetrics > Reportlets.
3. Select a reportlet; for example, Heat Chart reportlet.
4. Click Show Bookmark.
5. Copy the bookmark and paste it in a text editor.

Repeat these steps for all the reportlets you want included in the reportlet dashboard.

Task 3: Create the reportlet dashboard using the BI Portal

1. On the NPS home page, click the BI Server tab.
2. Click Portal.
3. Select a location for your reportlet dashboard; for example, My Folders.
4. Click New Page in the top right corner.

5. In the Specify a name and description-New page wizard form, specify the required information about the dashboard.

6. In the Set columns and layout-New page wizard form, specify:

   • Number of columns you require in the dashboard
   • Width of the columns. For a multi-column dashboard, the columns must be the same width.
7. In the Set columns and layout-New page wizard form, click Add.
8. Select Cognos Utility.
9. In the Available entries column, select a utility; for example, to display multiple reportlets in the dashboard, select HTML Viewer.
10. Click Add to move the selected utilities in the Selected entries column.
11. Click OK.
12. Click Next.

13. In the Set page style-New page wizard, specify the title, style, and any instructions you want the reportlet dashboard to show.

    Do not select the following:

    • Hide title bars
    • Hide Edit buttons on the title bar
14. Click Next.
15. In the Select an action-New page wizard form, select the required options and click Finish.

The new dashboard opens in Edit mode.

Task 4: Edit the dashboard to display the selected reportlets

1. Select any of the following tools:

   • Edit in the title bar
   • Edit in the Actions column
2. Specify the content for the reportlet dashboard using the reportlet bookmark. For example, if you selected HTML Viewer to view the reportlets, copy the bookmark you saved in the text editor and paste it in the HTML content field.
3. Specify the height for the panel where the BI Portal displays the reportlet.
4. Click OK.

Reportlets Dashboards will not work if you make any changes to the NNMi FQDN, NPS FQDN, NPS port, or the communication protocol (HTTP and HTTPS). After upgrading NPS to a new version, or restoring data from a different NPS system, reportlet dashboards stop working.

Also, after NNMi fails over to the standby server in an Application Failover environment, all reportlet dashboards stop working.

You must regenerate all reportlet dashboards in the above cases.