Default dashboards
The default dashboards of the platform have the Metrics, Hybrid and Optimization tabs. All users can access all tabs of the dashboard. If the user does not have the appropriate privileges to display the data in a widget, the platform will display "No data available".
Create a dashboard
Administrators can create dashboards for the whole platform (default dashboards) and enterprise dashboards. All users with the appropriate privileges can create their own user dashboards.
To create a dashboard:
Privileges: Manage default dashboards, Access enterprise metadata (dashboards), Manage enterprise metadata (dasboards), Access user metadata (dashboards), Manage user metadata (dasboards)
- Go Home view
- At the right of the Dashboard tabs, click the + Add button
- Complete the dialog as described below
- Add widgets and configure them
- After you have finished, click Save dashboard changes
Add widgets to a dashboard
To add widgets to a dashboard:
Privileges: Manage default dashboards, Access enterprise metadata (dashboards), Manage enterprise metadata (dasboards), Access user metadata (dashboards), Manage user metadata (dasboards)
- Go to Home view → select a dashboard
- Click Add widget
- From the Widgets catalog, select a dashboard widget. Configure the widget as required
- Click Add
- Repeat for more widgets, then click Save dashboard changes
Display billing data in billing widgets
By default for cloud users, in the biling widgets the billing data does not display and the default text is No data available.
To enable the display of the billing details in the billing widgets
- Configure billing dashboards. See Display cloud provider billing data.
- Assign the following privilege to user roles: View bills
Configure billing charts
To configure the default billing charts in the billing widgets, use UI configuration properties. For example:
- number of months to display bills for
- the currency conversion factors for billing dashboards
- provider list with complete friendly names
For UI configuration properties documentation, see Configure Abiquo UI
To configure dashboard options, see also Configuration View#Dashboard. For example, to change how often the platform updates statistics use the "Refresh interval for dashboard" parameter.
Display enterprise statistics on the Enterprise resource widget
By default for users, the Enterprise resources panel will display usage for virtual datacenters only.
To enable the display of enterprise statistics, assign the Display enterprise statistics privilege to user roles.
Privilege: Display enterprise statistics
The user can now select virtual datacenter or enterprise statistics.
To enable the display of enterprise limits in the enterprise and virtual datacenter statistics, assign the following privilege to user roles. The display of usage will now incorporate the allocation limits of the enterprise and virtual datacenters with orange markers for soft limits and red markers for hard limits.
Privilege: Display enterprise limits in statistics
To configure other dashboard options, see Configuration View#Dashboard. For example, the statistics are updated at the interval set with the "Refresh interval for dashboard" parameter.
Display enterprise list on left of dashboard
The administrator dashboard has a list of enterprises in the left panel.
To enable a user to view this list:
- Assign the List enteprises within scope privilege
- Add multiple enterprises to the user's administration scope.
Privilege: List enterprises within scope
Display switch enterprises button in enterprise list
To display the switch enterprise button on the enteprise list
- Assign the privilege to Allow user to switch enterprises.
To enable the user to jump directly to a resource in another enterprise by clicking on the resource name:
- Assign the privilege to Allow user to switch enterprises.
Privilege: List enterprises within scope, Allow user to switch enterprises
Configure the thresholds for highest and lowest usage of CPU and RAM
On the Optimization dashboard, the default lower threshold for the highest CPU and RAM usage is 80%. The default upper threshold for lowest CPU and RAM usage is 30%. The threshold values will display in the widget headers. To configure these values, set the client.dashboard.widgets.defaultvalues property. See Configure Abiquo UI.
Configure the thresholds for longest time deployed
On the Optimization dashboard, the default lower threshold for the longest time deployed is 90 days. The threshold value will display in the widget header. To configure these values, set the client.dashboard.widgets.mindaysdeployed property, which has a default value of 90 days. See Configure Abiquo UI.
Configure dashboard main menu
To configure dashboard main menu, see Configure the main menu button bar