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Configure dashboard display for the Abiquo multicloud platform with metrics, hybrid, billing and optimization data.

Default dashboards

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Dynamic dashboard types

The platform displays four types of dashboards in the following order:

  1. Default

  2. Reseller

  3. Enterprise

  4. User

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Create a dashboard

Administrators can create dashboards for the whole platform (default dashboards), and reseller and enterprise dashboards.

All users with the appropriate privileges can create their own user dashboards.

To create a dashboard tab:

Panel

Privileges: Manage default dashboards, Access enterprise metadata (dashboards), Manage enterprise metadata (dashboards), Access user metadata (dashboards), Manage user metadata (dashboards)

  1. Go Home view

  2. At the right of the Dashboard tabs, click the + Add button

  3. Enter the dashboard details

    1. The Type is for display and management of the dashboard for Default (all users), the current Enterprise, or the current User. See Dashboard types

    2. For the Lang code, enter the language code (as for the UI, see Abiquo UI client language configuration). 
      You can customize or translate the dashboard labels and save them in a file (with a name in the format displayed) in the lang folder of the UI.
      For example "dashboard.tab.SpainITDashboardSpainITTeamDashboard.enes_ES"

    3. For Dashboard order in type group, set the display order of the dashboard.
      See Dashboard types

    Create dashboard
  4. Click Save

  5. Add widgets and configure them as required. See Add widgets to a dashboard and Dashboard widgets

  6. After you have finished, click Save dashboard changes 

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To add widgets to a dashboard, do these steps.

Panel

Privileges: Manage default dashboards, Access enterprise metadata (dashboards), Manage enterprise metadata (dashboards), Access user metadata (dashboards), Manage user metadata (dasboards)

  1. Go to Home view → select a dashboard

  2. Click Add widget

  3. From the Widgets catalog, select a dashboard widget. Configure the widget as required

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  4. Click Add

  5. Repeat for more widgets, then click Save dashboard changes

For a description of the available widgets, see the Dashboard widgets. and Dashboard widgets advanced

To control the available widgets, see Configure Abiquo UI.

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