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The Home view dashboard gives you statistics and an overview of dynamic dashboards give you information about the resources you are managing on the platform. |
For the administrator, the Home view dashboard provides statistics and an overview of the resources an The Abiquo Home view contains dynamic dashboards to give you tables and graphical information about the resources you are managing on with the platform. It is the first screen you will see when you log in. To return to this view from any other screen, click the Home Q icon. The home view dashboard is a general view of the resources currently being used by your enterprise in four different panels, described from left to right, top down: Enterprise Resources, Virtual appliances, Virtual datacenters, and Events.
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For the API documentation for this feature, see StatisticsResource |
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To jump to a virtual datacenter or VM double click on it in the Virtual datacenters or VMs table. |
All information shown is contextualized for the current user and this documentation assumes that the user has administrator privileges.
Selecting an enterprise
To display the dashboard statistics of an enterprise, click on the enterprise in the Enterprise list. The name of the selected enterprise will display above the dashboard panels.
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To switch to another enterprise to administer that enterprise, click the switch enterprise button beside a name in the enterprise list. The name of the enterprise that you are currently using will be displayed beneath your username in the top right-hand corner of the screen. When you log out and log in again, the enterprise will not be reset. All your actions with virtual datacenters, virtual appliances, VMs and VM templates will apply to the current enterprise until you switch to another enterprise .
Enterprise resource statistics
This screen shows statistics of the resources used by the current or selected enterprise and/or the selected virtual datacenters in all the accessible datacenters. The view will depend on the user's scope and privileges. See Enterprise Statistics and Virtual Datacenter Statistics for more information.
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Privilege: Display enterprise statistics, Display enterprise limits in statistics |
By default, the statistics are updated at the interval set in Configuration View on the Dashboard page of the System Properties tab with the "Refresh interval for dashboard" parameter.
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Virtual CPUs used by VMs that are currently deployed
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VM disks that are created on the hypervisor datastore. This includes non-persistent VM system disks and ESXi hard disks.
These disks will be deleted when the VM is undeployed (GB)
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Virtual datacenters
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Virtual appliances
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Events
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This is a condensed view of the Events view logs. It is controlled with the same privileges as the Events view, so if the user has no events privileges, no events window will display here. Otherwise, the window will display all events for the enterprise or all events, depending on the user's role, privileges and scope.
Click on an event to open the event in a popup.
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By default, the dashboard displays the predefined Metrics, Hybrid, and Optimization tabs.
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The administrator can fully customize the dashboard as required. It is also possible to restore the default dashboard if anything goes wrong in your experiments!
Users can create their own dashboards if they have the privileges to manage dashboards. To create a dashboard, click the + add button to the right of the current dashboards.
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All users who can manage dashboards can also customize them with a selection of widgets from the widget catalogue.
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And users can move and resize widgets according to their needs.
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For example, you can create a dashboard tab with cost control widgets for Amazon.
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And another dashboard for Azure!
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The administrator can click on a tenant enterprise name to display the dashboard for that tenant.
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The administrator can also switch to another enterprise tenant by clicking the building switch enterprises button beside the tenant name.
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