Editing the Components dashboard group widgets

You can edit the threshold values of the group widgets that display in the Components dashboard (selected from the navigator Groups section). You can also control which group widgets are displayed and their position, and decide whether a widget threshold should be included in determining the component status.

About this task

This task involves editing the Components group dashboard and its constituent summary group widget for a defined application. The Components group editor is not available for the My Components predefined application. For more information about defined applications, see Managing applications.

Your user ID must also have the modify permission for Application Performance Dashboard and the create permission for Applications. For more information, see Roles and permissions.

Procedure

  1. After you open the Application Performance Dashboard from the Performance menu, select the application whose summary group widgets you want to edit from the All My Applications dashboard.
  2. In the navigator Groups section, click Components to open a dashboard showing group widgets for all the components in the application.
  3. Click Actions > Edit to open the editor for the group widgets in the Components group.
    The Edit option shows only when the Components dashboard is open.
    Components level dashboard for the Partner Network application with the Actions menu open.
  4. Make any of the following changes to the group widgets:
    • To remove a group widget from view, click Remove icon.
    • To modify the summary thresholds for a widget, click wheel icon Settings, select the Thresholds tab, and change the threshold values for the critical, warning, or normal severity. After editing the thresholds for the group widget, click Done.
    • To add a widget, click Add a widget, click applications icons until the one that you want is displayed, click inside the group widget to select it, and click Add.
    • To resize a widget, drag the handle icon handle icon. Resizing a widget does not change the size of the text or the height of the widget.
    • To move a widget, drag it to a new position.
  5. To save your changes and close the editor, click Save; or to discard your changes, click Cancel .

Results

The Components dashboard of the selected application is displayed with the new settings.

What to do next

For more information about the dashboard when a group or subgroup is selected in the navigator, see Group and Instance - Application Performance Dashboard; for more information about the monitored component dashboard, click the Help button in the Application Dashboard banner.