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Home Page User Interface

You can remove any content from the Home page, rearrange or resize the existing widgets, or add new widgets.

Important CMS UI2018.08 requires UCMDB server 2018.08.

The following table describes the user interface elements on the Home page.

UI Element (A-Z) Description

You can open the Home page from anywhere else in the CMS UI simply by clicking the icon in the upper left corner of the CMS UI window.

CMS Modules. Opens the CMS Modules pane, and allows you to navigate through the available web-based CMS modules. For detailed information about the available modules, see CMS Modules.
<Top Search Bar>

Search. Allows you to search within the following categories:

  • Configuration Item. Allows you to search for a CI. The search results are opened directly in the Configuration Item Search module.
  • Queries and Models. Allows you to search for queries and models. The search results are opened directly in the Resource Manager module.
  • Views and Reports. Allows you to search for views and reports. The search results are opened in the Resource Manager module or in the Topology Map.

  • Reconciliation. Allows you to search for a CI and to view all its changes. Also, you can view the reason why the CI was changed. This includes a list of identification candidates, and the reasons for matching the searched CI with them. For detailed information about Reconciliation Analyzer, see Working with the Reconciliation Analyzer

For more information, see Search Functionality.

<username>

<username>. Displays the user that is currently logged in to CMS UI. Clicking it allows you to log out from CMS UI.

Help. Opens the Help menu, which contains the following menu options:

  • Help. Opens the CMS UI Help page.
  • REST API Reference. Opens the new interactive REST API Reference documentation.

    • The REST API Reference documentation now contains information about all REST APIs available with UCMDB.
    • The Try it out button for each REST API call in the interactive REST API Reference documentation allows you to try executing the REST API code examples and to view returned responses.
  • Online Help for CMS UI. Opens the online help for the current CMS UI version available on the Micro Focus Software Information Portal.
  • Online Help for UCMDB Server. Opens the online help for the current UCMDB Server version available on the Micro Focus Software Information Portal.
  • Online Help for Content Pack. Opens the online help for the current Content Pack version available on the Micro Focus Software Information Portal.

  • About. Opens the About dialog box.

    The ABOUT tab provides version, patch (if available), copyright, and third-party notice information. For more information, see About Window.

    The LICENSE tab provides license information, including license status, license summary, and a license status link. Clicking the license status link opens the license summary report, which contains license consumption summary and available licenses, and a link that allows you to export a detailed license consumption report. For more information about licenses, see Universal Discovery Licensing Overview.

    Clicking OK exits the About window.

Walk-throughs. Opens a list of predefined workflow scenarios. Click one of the available workflows to open a set of step-by-step-instructions. This allows you to complete an end-to-end workflow by yourself.

The following walk-throughs are available:

  • How to Search for a CI

For more information, see Run a Walk-through

Add New Widget. Enables you to add different types of widgets to the Home page. Opens the Add a New Widget layer.

The following types of widgets are available:

Settings. Enables you to delete the out-of-the-box content. For more information, see "Delete the out-of-the-box content" in the Home Page Overview section.

The following table describes the user interface elements on each tile on the Home page.

UI Element (A-Z) Description
Delete <tile name>. Removes the widget from the Home page.
Map mode. Opens the topology map for a view associated with a widget.

Widget Settings. Allows you to customize the widget title, and to view some of the widget properties.

To customize the title of a widget, follow these steps:

  1. In the Home page, hover the mouse over a widget, and then click the Settings icon () in the top-right corner of the widget.
  2. In the Widget Settings pane, replace the existing title with a new one, and then click Save.
<tile content>

Displays a preview of the widget.

For the report widgets, the CIs displayed in the preview are grouped by CI Type, or by attribute, according to the type of grouping you have defined for the report.

  • If the report has no grouping by attribute defined, then the CIs displayed in the preview are grouped by CI Type.
  • If the report has a grouping by attribute defined, then the CIs displayed in the preview are grouped by attribute.
  • If the report has more than one grouping by attribute defined, then the CIs displayed in the preview are grouped by the first attribute from the top.

Important Only the first nine groups are displayed in the preview.

The preview contains a graph and a legend.

  • <Graph>. Displays the number of grouped CIs (maximum nine groups).
  • <Legend>. Displays the legend for the graph.

    In the following situations, the legend displays a new category called Other CIs:

    • When the total number of CIs is larger than the number of CIs grouped by attribute. In this case, the Other CIs category includes all the CIs that are not grouped by attribute. (Other CIs = The total number of CIs - The CIs grouped by attribute).
    • When the CIs are grouped by attribute, and there are more than nine groups. In this case, the Other CIs category includes all the remaining CIs (grouped by attribute and also the ones that are not grouped by attribute). (Other CIs = The total number of CIs - The number of CIs from the nine groups displayed in the legend).
Re-size widget. Changes the size of the widget. To do this, click the icon and then drag the mouse.