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Simplify your administration using Jazz for Service Management
Are you still finding answers to questions like: "I have a product to administer on a server. I want to monitor its health, schedule health checks at a particular interval, receive alerts of the various configuration health on my dashboard, perform configuration on the product. However, I do not have sufficient knowledge to perform long steps of configuration. How do I get started to administer?" The answer to above questions is Administration Services. All you need to do is install Jazz for Service Management on the server you... [More]
Tags:  isl-csi adminsitration oslc jazzsm linked-data services |
Trouble-free installation of Jazz for Service Management
The most common issue during the installation of Jazz for Service Management is failing to meet the prerequisites. Hence, have provided few links that would help everyone to have a trouble-free installation of Jazz for Service Management v1.1 First and foremost, check on what are the Hard ware and software Requirements for the installation. The link provides details about all the supported hardware, OS level, Browser levels, Databases and the Application Servers. Next step before your start installation, ensure to check if your environment has... [More]
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Thresholding for Gauges
There are out of the box gauges that come in Jazz for Service Management with the Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH) and are built to represent a particular value. The value can represent a particular status (Normal, Minor, Critical etc) based on the thresholds configured by the user. So how does one set the thresholds? Go to the edit mode of the widget and expand ‘Optional Settings’ tab. Threshold fields are designed to take a single numeric value . Consider an example: Normal: 0 Minor: 30 Major: 60 Above configuration can... [More]
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Custom Labels for Gauges
Gauges available at Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH) can be used to represent a particular value and the corresponding status . Apart from the value they have an additional capability to show labels (at top and leading edge) which can be configured to a particular column of the selected Dataset. Refer ‘Value Status Gauge’ snapshot below with both the labels. Have you ever wished that you could configure the labels to something static or a custom text? The solution is real simple. You just need to be in... [More]
Tags:  labels dash dashboarding isl-csi gauge |
Configuring DASHBoard widgets with Remote Data Provider
To connect to remote data providers, you have to configure the connection in DASH. Log-in to DASH. Select the "Console settings" from the Navigation Bar and click on the "Connections" option under General category. It opens up the editor where you can configure connections to local and remote data providers. To create a new remote connection, click on the "Create new remote provider"... [More]
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Want to add drill down capability to your Dashboard ?
Page Launch is used for drill down scenarios internally in DASH. Using page launch you can launch a page and pass the context to that page by selecting the Dashboarding widget. This can be configured through Quick Edit of the widget. In Quick Edit, there is an option called “ Page to Launch ” where the available pages in DASH will be listed in a combo box. You can select any page and that page will be launched and the context will be passed to the page on click of the Dashboarding widget. ... [More]
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XLaunch Support in Dashboarding widgets
xLaunch enables the capability to launch a DASH page from an external application. This capability allows IBM Products or any external application to launch a DASH Page which consists of different Dashboarding widgets. It involves sending a request URL along with a page identifier from an external application. Parameters can be optionally passed to transfer the context to the launching page. URL Framing for xLaunch : < host name >: < port number > /ibm/action/launch/ < page id >?< optional params > Host name : On... [More]
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DASH board widgets: When to use Refresh Timer and Browser reload widgets
This blog will help to identify when to use Refresh Timer and Browser reload widgets while building dashboards. Refresh Timer: Refresh Timer widget is used along with other dashboard widgets on a dash page if a user wants to refresh the widget's (gauges, table, list...) data at regular time interval. The Refresh Widget is useful when data providers do not provide dynamic refreshes. The Refresh widget should not be used when a data provider is providing dynamic updates. The Refresh Widget does not reload the entire browser and it can... [More]
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No thresholding options for Status Gauge?
Did you just hit a scenario where the thresholding options are not available while configuring your Status Gauge? Status Gauge has a special affinity towards a value which is of type ‘Status’. If you see the description of the mandatory parameter it says “Numeric Value/ Status expected”. Status object is a little enhanced version of a numeric value provided by the data provider. Providing a Status object is optional for a data provider, so not all providers or datasets may have Status... [More]
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