Configuring the dashboard to view performance charts

The Monitoring > Dashboard page provides an easy to read, single page, and real-time user interface that provides a quick overview of the system performance.

The dashboard consists of several dashboard widgets and the associated favorite charts that can be displayed within a chosen layout. Currently, the following important widget types are available in the dashboard:
  • Performance
  • File system capacity by fileset
  • System health events
  • System overview
  • Filesets with the largest growth rate in last week
  • Timeline
The following picture highlights the configuration options that are available in the edit mode of the dashboard.
Figure 1. Dashboard page in the edit mode
Dashboard page in the edit mode

Layout options

The highly customizable dashboard layout options helps to add or remove widgets and change its display options. Select Layout Options option from the menu that is available in the upper right corner of the Dashboard GUI page to change the layout options. While selecting the layout options, you can either select the basic layouts that are available for selection or create a new layout by selecting an empty layout as the starting point.

You can also save the dashboard so that it can be used by other users. Select Create Dashboard and Delete Dashboard options from the menu that is available in the upper right corner of the Dashboard page to create and delete dashboards respectively. If several GUIs are running by using CCR, saved dashboards are available on all nodes.

When you open the IBM Storage Scale GUI after the installation or upgrade, you can see the default dashboards that are shipped with the product. You can further modify or delete the default dashboards to suit your requirements.

Widget options

Several dashboard widgets can be added in the selected dashboard layout. Select Edit Widgets option from the menu that is available in the upper right corner of the Dashboard GUI page to edit or remove widgets in the dashboard. You can also modify the size of the widget in the edit mode. Use the Add Widget option that is available in the edit mode to add widgets in the dashboard.

The widgets with type Performance lists the charts that are marked as favorite charts in the Statistics page of the GUI. Favorite charts along with the predefined charts are available for selection when you add widgets in the dashboard.

To create favorite charts, click the ‘star’ symbol that is placed next to the chart title in the Monitoring > Statistics page.