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

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Create a dashboard

According to your user privileges, you can create dashboards of the following types: Default (for the whole platform), Reseller, Enterprise, and User.

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  1. Go Home view

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

  3. Enter the dashboard details

    1. For the Type, select from Default, Enterprise, or User, and Reseller (for reseller enterprises only)

    2. For the Lang code, enter your UI language code. 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.SpainITTeamDashboard.es_ES
      See Abiquo UI client language configuration

    3. For Dashboard order in type group, set the display order of the dashboard tab in its type group

      Add a dashboard tabImage Modified

  4. Click Save

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

  6. After you have finished, click Save dashboard changes

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Panel

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

  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

    Add widget

  4. Click Add

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

For a description of the widgets, see the Dashboard widgets

To control the available widgets, see Configure Abiquo UI .

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Resize dashboard widgets

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By default for cloud users, on the Last bills and Estimated bills widgets, the default text is "No data available".

To enable the display of billing data:

  1. Configure the platform to obtain billing data from the cloud provider or private cloud.
    See https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Display+cloud+provider+billing+data .

  2. Assign the View bills privilege to user roles

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To refresh the dashboard, click the Refresh button in the top right corner of the page.

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