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Adding and Using Favorites

The Favorites feature helps you to quickly visualize the performance metrics of frequently monitored CIs. The Favorites comprises group of charts from different CIs. For example, if you are monitoring CIs - A and B, and you want to visualize the CPU utilization in the form of a graph for the first CI and the CPU Percentage breakdown in the form of a table for the other CI. You can add the charts - graphs and table from specific CIs to the Favorites for faster visualization of performance data.

By default, there is a My Favorite that is available. You can add any number of user-defined Favorites for quick visualization of performance metrics from different CIs. The default My Favorite is available for all the users and is user-specific. Each user can see the charts that they have added.

You can also add CI Comparison graphs to Favorites.

In addition, as a user, you can share user-defined favorites as public favorites with other users by using the Share as Public option. Using the Share as Public option, the Favorites created by one user can be made available to other users as read only. The other users can only view the public favorites but cannot modify the public favorites created by the owners.

Use Case: Consider a scenario where as an Administrator you want to see the performance of all business critical servers and applications from a single Performance Dashboard. You do not want to view different Performance Dashboards to visualize this information. You can view the performance metrics for business critical servers in a single Performance Dashboard using the Favorites feature.

ClosedHow to add Favorites and create user-defined Favorites
  1. In the View Explorer pane, select the View from the drop-down list. For example, you can select System_Infrastructure to view the CIs associated with this view.

  2. In the View Explorer pane, click the CI for which you want to open a Performance Dashboard.

    You can also select two or more CIs to launch a CI Comparison dashboard and add a chart on the dashboard to a Favorite. For more information about using CI Comparison dashboards, see CI Comparison.

  3. In the Performance pane, click and click the Performance Dashboard or the CI Comparison dashboard.

  4. In the Performance pane, click the title of the chart and then click Add to Favorite. The Favorite appears with the selection options. You can add the Favorite to the default Performance Dashboard, user-defined Favorite or create new user-defined Favorite. To create a new user-defined Favorite, follow these steps:

    1. Click to create a user defined Favorite
    2. Specify the name for the user-defined Favorite

  5. Click Save.

    Note: You can perform the same steps for adding other Favorite charts. You cannot add favorites that are marked as public and read only.
ClosedHow to view Favorites

In the Performance pane, click and then click My Sample Favorite or user-defined Favorites to view the Favorite charts. For example, you can click My Favorite to view the Favorite charts. The My Sample Favorite appears with the frequently used CIs.

ClosedHow to delete Favorites

In the Performance pane, click . The list of Performance Dashboards and Favorites appear.

  1. You can hover over the Favorite you want to delete and click . For example, you can hover over My Sample Favorite and click .
  2. Click Yes. A message appears stating that the Favorite is deleted.
Note: You cannot delete the out-of-the box default Favorite - My Favorite. You can delete the public favorites created by you. You cannot delete public favorites created by the owners.
ClosedHow to create Public Favorites

As a user, you can view the public favorites but cannot modify the public favorites created by the owners.

  1. In the View Explorer pane, select the View from the drop-down list. For example, you can select System_Infrastructure to view the CIs associated with this view.
  2. In the View Explorer pane, click the CI for which you want to create a Performance Dashboard.
  3. In the Performance pane, click and click any of the favorite to view.

  4. In the Performance pane, click Save. The Save page appears and select the option Share as Public. This option enables all users to view the favorites created by you. If you do not select this option, the favorites will not be available for all users. The other users cannot modify or save public favorites created by you.

    Note: The Share as Public option does not appear for the default My Favorite.
ClosedHow to view Public Favorites

As a user, you can view the favorites created by other users that are marked as public. The public favorites are read only.

In the Performance pane, click and click the Favorites that are marked as public. For example, you can click Sample (public). The public favorite appears and is read only. You can modify the public favorites but cannot save the public favorites created by the owners.

ClosedHow to customize Favorites

You can customize the favorites by modifying the settings such as the title of the favorite, auto-refresh interval, and so on. Follow these steps:

  1. Launch the favorite dashboard that you want to customize.
  2. In the Performance Pane, click Configure Dashboard. The Dashboard Settings page appears.
  3. Edit the required settings in the General and Features tabs. For more information about dashboard settings, see Configuring Performance Dashboard.

 

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