Adding your custom content to DASH got even simpler. DASH 3.1.0.3 (JAZZ SM 1.1.0.3) added a feature called myBox. This allows you to add any custom  content like images for background or logo, JSPs, static HTML to your dashboard. Feature myBox is a pre-installed custom space for your web content. After adding your custom content to this space, you can use a well defined URL to add the content on your  dashboard Follow simple steps below 1. Add your custom content to mtBox:  Add your files to <DASH-HOME>\myBox\web_files... [More]

The DASH (Dashboard Application Services Hub) component in the UI Services of IBM JazzSM product supports custom dashboarding via drag and drop. This enables customers and business partners to easily create tailored dashboards at their end easily, without any programming and minimal technical knowledge. But many times you may want the widgets to interact each other too, either to other widgets in same page or even another page. In this blog we will see how to do that and a quick peek into how it works.   DASH supports many events for... [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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There is beauty in visualization, there is paradise in beautiful integration, then there is a Meat Loaf-esque attempt at tying this entry’s title to the intro. For the past two years we have been focusing on consolidating and correlating data from different data providers, and during that time we also put out a rather polished Registry Services Sample UI console that allowed people to  browse data stored in Registry Services. All the while we kept throwing a long look across the hallway - actually they sit on the floor above, their not so... [More]

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Dashboard Application Service Hub (DASH) is a fascinating advancement we have for our Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure platform. Management and operational users are in dire need of understanding the health and current state of their environment.   Since out-of-the-box dashboards never fully provide everything an organization requires, implementing customization is a priority. Users need to be able to create their dashboards on the fly for pertinent information. To have the capability to pull in data from various sources and... [More]

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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]

If I have multiple products deployed in an IT environment, I can use each of them individually. However, solving a problem often requires access to information from multiple products . For example, if I have a problem with a business application, I might need information about which servers and associated hardware and software support that application. I might then want to know details about how those servers are configured, which of them are overloaded, which ones have had recent configuration changes, and if there are error events being... [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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  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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IBM Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) version 1.1.1 was released towards end of 2014. You would have already seen this blog post briefly explaining the release contents. Also please note that the release was later refreshed to include critical security vulnerability fixes (including SSLv3 POODLE ). The refresh is available on IBM Fix Central , please update ASAP.   Apart from many enhancements and numerous defect fixes, there were also new Dashboard Widgets added in this release. In this blog, we will have a quick look at... [More]

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This blog talks about how to resolve a common scenario you may encounter when configuring widgets on a dashboard in the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub, the "No Data Found “ on DASH Widgets" message.There are many times you may see no data getting displayed in your widget and the widget may appear blank   Do not panic by seeing a blank widget . The reason could be a very minor one and here is how you find out. Follow this check list and the problem could be due to any of these situations. 1.The data provider could be... [More]

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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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This demo ( OSLC and TOSCA Cloud App Lifecycle ) is about a lifecycle of a cloud application. It is not “THE END-END LIFECYCLE”, it is just one example of the many possible lifecycles you can build with your tools to manage cloud applications. The goal is to show how OSLC and TOSCA make this easy. The lifecycle is composed of the following steps: In the first step, a developer imports a TOSCA cloud application package in a definitive software library. The library is implemented with Rational Asset Manager, but any other tool implementing the... [More]

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This paper is a step-by-step solution guide to enable load balancing and high availability connections for the Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) Dashboard component to the Netcool/Impact data provider cluster. Netcool/Impact 6.1.1 and higher provide out of the box solution capabilities by exposing Netcool/Impact data types and policy variables (user output parameters) through its user interface (UI) data provider to visualize its data through dashboard widgets. By using an IBM HTTP server to round robin HTTP(S) connections, we can improve... [More]

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