Manage dashboards

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.

There are separate privileges to display and manage each type of dashboard.

To create a dashboard tab:

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

      

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

Add widgets to a dashboard

If you have the privileges to manage a dashboard, you can add any available widget to the dashboards.

To add widgets to a dashboard, do these steps.

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

   

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 .

Resize dashboard widgets

To resize widgets on a dashboard, the user must have permission to manage the dashboard. The user can click on the edge of a widget and drag to resize it. But if the widget has a scroll bar on the bottom or right-hand side, the user may not be able to resize in this direction.

Restore the default dashboard

To restore the predefined Default dashboard:

1. Go to Configuration view → Dashboards

2. Click the Restore default dashboards button at the bottom of the page

The platform will now display the Metrics, Hybrid, and Optimization tabs only.

Display billing data on the dashboard

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

Users may have to wait for the platform to obtain billing data from the provider and estimate bills.

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

Related links

• Dashboard widgets

• Customize Abiquo billing dashboard processes