I want to share with the DASH community on how we can approach building some unique custom dashboards in DASH leveraging Netcool/Impact. With the intuitiveness of DASH, combined with the simple out of box integration for Impact we can put together a custom dashboard relatively quick.  One of the challenges that we see across numerous clients is the ability to customize a list of resources. In a typical environment, a user would have a combination of Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers. Within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal we have limited... [More]

Courtesy of my colleague Chris Appleton in Netcool/OMNIbus development, there is a new video on how they designed their own OSLC Service Provider for their upcoming 7.4 FP3 release. All standard disclaimers apply about release contents not being final until formally announced, but the work is already subject to external try-outs in the Jazz for Service Management hosted beta . This video was primarily created for systems integrators who already extend Netcool/OMNIbus and want to expand that integration to enable collaboration with other OSLC... [More]

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Co-authored with Fernando Mariani   With Fix Pack 2, Registry Services provides support for two additional media types: JSON, an open standard based on the JavaScript language, which provides a simple human-readable syntax for representing simple data types. Turtle, designed specifically to represent data in a RDF model, is an alternative to RDF/XML which is able to define any RDF graph in a cleaner model.   How to send requests using Turtle and JSON media types   When you send an HTTP request to Registry Services, you can... [More]

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The out of the box widgets that come in Jazz for Service Management with the Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH) are built to show data coming from a data provider.  Several products already come with a data provider that is ready to go.  However, it may be the case that you would like to show some data that is currently not being served up from a data provider.  In these cases, you can use Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) to make this data available to DASH.  (Impact also allows you to get other data and make it... [More]

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A common need when building dashboards is to allow a user to click on an element in the dashboard and transition that user to another page that contains related or more detailed information about what is being clicked.  For example, clicking on a status gauge showing overall status and moving to another page that has some detailed information about that status. This kind of drilldown is configured using "wires" in DASH.  Here, I'll walk you through the basic steps of setting up a wire that will launch your drilldown... [More]

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  Have you tried enabling your custom dashboards for mobile devices. I get this question very frequently. Its quite simple in DASH You need to create a view in DASH and enable it for mobile.  Navigate from Settings to Views panel and create new view and make sure to check the checkbox that says "Enable for Mobile" See the screen shot below Add all the dashboards that you wish to enable to this view. Next, login into DASH from your  mobile device to try out.  Another point to keep in mind when creating dashboards... [More]

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Have you had a chance to create a dashboard using the Table widget from the DASH palette?  If so, you've seen the message that appears after you've selected your dataset that says: "No visualization attribute found for mapping to dataset columns." Here's a quick screen shot                               I've been getting a number of questions recently about this message.  Even though you might interpret this as an error, this message... [More]

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There are many time or scenario that you need to check the status of your DASH HA clusters after you had perform fix pack upgrade or stop the server for maintenance.   In the normal situation, these results will be shown if the clusters are working properly. Run the JazzSM/profile/ui/bin/consolecli.sh ListHANodes --username smadmin --password smadmin                                   If your ListHANodes return error message,   For Unreachable message,... [More]

These are the steps to perform when JazzSM DASH and WebSphere admin console are not accessible by all users including smadmin.   1. Backup <JazzSM_HOME>/profile/config/cells/JazzSMNode01Cell/security.xml 2. Stop server1 [root@dash151 JazzSMNode01Cell]# cd /opt/IBM/JazzSM/profile/bin/ [root@dash151 bin]# ./stopServer.sh server1 -username smadmin -password <password> 3. Modify <JazzSM_HOME>/profile/config/cells/JazzSMNode01Cell/security.xml to disable security by setting enabled="false", like so: <?xml... [More]

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With Jazz for Service Management, there can be cases where the Server Dashboards have tables showing values of 100%, while values of 1% are being expected:   This happens when JazzSM is using the ITM data provider, up to ITM 6.3 FP5. There are some known APARs in this area, IV75571 and IV80202, both fixed with ITM 6.3 FP7. After applying FP7, this problem should be gone. If the problem is still there after FP7, then the ITMREST data provider will have to be re-registered. You can use this procedure to re-register the ITMREST data provider... [More]

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An update to the Dash Tools toolkit is now available.  The major additions are: the Parm Detective tool - allows you to progressively explore and ultimately discover the parameters defined by any DASH data provider dataset. updates to the dashHub pages - i ntegrated TimeSe t event,  added Parm Detective page Full details and downloads are here Steve Diering

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Console Properties of IBM Dashboard Application Hub   The editable Console Properties of  IBM Dashboard application can be changed according to the user requirement by modifying the values of Console properties. In DASH , User can change Console Properties in 2 different ways   1. Console Properties GUI : The Console Properties page from Dash 3.1.2 and 3.1.2.1 release displays editable properties and values of the console. User can select a property and change the value accordingly to their requirements. To View Console... [More]

  Console Analytics  provides details about pages being accessed in  Dashboard Application Services Hub.  It  allows you to review and manage dashboard activity data. In DASH , Console Analytics can be viewed in 2 ways: 1.  Console Analytics GUI  is a new feature introduced in  Jazz for Service Management 1.1.2.1 fixpack.   To view Console Analytics data through UI, Log in to the console and select  Settings  >  Console Analytics .            ... [More]

Jazz TM for Service Management brings together the community's open specifications for linking data and other shared integration services, including DASH(Dashboard Application Services Hub) and Reporting Services. DASH provides visualization capabilities and Reporting Services provides a common reporting platform for all ITSM products. Join us during this tweet hour to know more about Jazz TM for Service Management DASH and Reporting Services and leverage this opportunity to interact with our panelist for your queries. Schedule : 29th... [More]