IBM Performance Management

Create custom dashboards with IBM® Performance Management data

To display Performance Management data in the Dashboard Application Services Hub console, you can create custom dashboards and add widgets to your pages.

Use the information in the Creating Basic Custom Monitoring Dashboards PDF to configure DASH widgets to retrieve data from Performance Management agents. See DASH custom dashboards on the APM Developer Center.

Additional information about creating custom dashboards and adding widgets is in Working with dashboards or pages in the Jazz™ for Service Management documentation.

When you create widgets with attributes from Performance Management agents, you can see an agent’s attributes, but not all of them are available for display in the dashboard. If no data is displayed from an attribute in the widget, it might be because you specified an unsupported attribute or data set. To see a list of the attributes that are suitable for inclusion in the widget, complete the following steps:
  1. Log in to the Performance Management console.
  2. Select Performance > Application Performance Dashboard.
  3. Drill down to the dashboard of an agent instance.
  4. Select the Attribute Details tab.
  5. To see which attributes are available, create a table with the data set that you intend to use in your Dashboard Application Services Hub widget.
The Performance Management data provider can be used with the following Dashboard Application Services Hub widgets:
  • List widget
  • Simple table
  • Gauges:
    • Analog gauge
    • Status gauge
    • Volume bar value status gauge
  • Charts:
    • Bar
    • Column
    • Line
    • Pie
When configuring a DASH widget to retrieve Performance Management metric data, a managed system name or system resource group identifier must be specified. When you specify a system resource group identifier for your DASH widget, the list of group members is displayed. Select the agents that you want to retrieve data from.
Note: Custom resource group names cannot be specified.
For the system resource group identifier, you cannot specify the name that you see in the Resource Group Manager. Instead, you must specify the internal identifier for the system resource group. To determine the system resource group identifier, issue the following CURL request from your APM server to get the list of system resource group identifiers:
curl http://smadmin:apmpass@localhost:8090
/ibm/tivoli/rest/providers/itm.KD8/datasources/TMSAgent
.%26IBM.STATIC000/datasets/mgrp/items?properties=MGROUP
where apmpass is the apmadmin user password.
Note: If a custom password was used for the apmadmin user when the server was installed, specify this custom password in the curl command.