Configuring dashboards for network deployment environments

If you have a distributed or network deployment environment, configure the Business Space component for IBM® Business Monitor using the administrative console or commands.

About this task

If you are using deployment manager and custom profiles, you must configure Representational State Transfer (REST) endpoints, configure the Business Space component, register the REST endpoints, and configure database tables.

Configuring REST services
If you have a stand-alone server environment, Representational State Transfer (REST) services are configured and enabled automatically. For other environments, use the administrative console to configure the REST services.
Configuring dashboards and registering REST endpoints on the administrative console
You can install and configure the Business Space component using the administrative console.
Removing the virtual host from the primary cluster member
In some network deployment topologies, administrators might remove the virtual host from the primary member of a cluster to ensure that all traffic goes through a web server. Configuring the Business Space component on a cluster restores the virtual host, and you might decide to remove the virtual host so that your environment works the same way that it was set up originally.
Configuring a proxy server or load-balancing server to use with dashboards
If you are using an environment with a proxy server or a load-balancing server, you must set up your environment so that dashboards work properly.
Enabling widgets for cross-cell environments
You must manually edit endpoints files if dashboards are running on a different cell than where the Representational State Transfer (REST) services are running, or if widgets are on different cells than IBM Business Monitor.
Enabling widgets to work with multiple endpoints
If you have one dashboard instance configured and you have a need to create another instance of the service endpoints in your environment, you must configure IBM Business Monitor so that the widgets can display data from the multiple service endpoints. You must edit two files: the endpoints file, which registers endpoints with the Business Space component, and the widget catalog file, which contains definitions of widgets.