Scoping the Turbonomic session

The default scope for the Home Page shows an overview of the global environment. What if you want to focus on less than the global environment? Assume you are responsible for a subset of workloads in your environment. This could be:

• Workloads managed on a single host cluster

• The workloads in a single datacenter

• A custom group of workloads you have created in Turbonomic

It's easy to set the session scope so that Turbonomic zooms in on the part of the environment that you want to inspect. Once you set the scope, you can get a quick picture of system health for that scope. If you find a certain scope to be useful, you can save it as a named group that you can return to later.

1. Navigate to the Search Page.

   

   Click to navigate to the Search Page. This is where you can choose the scope you want.

2. Choose the type of entities to search.

   

   In the Search Page, choose a category that you want to search through. You can focus on entities by type, by groups, or by clusters. When you select an entity type, the page updates to show all entities of that type.

   You can download a list of entities.

3. Use Search to filter the listing.

   For example, if you're showing Business Applications and you search for "Dev", then you will see all Business Applications with "Dev" in their names.

   

4. Expand an entry to see details.

   Select the Show more details button () to see details.

   For example, details of a group or an entity include utilization details and pending actions.

   Note:

   For hosts in the public cloud, utilization and capacity for host and datacenter resources don't affect Turbonomic calculations. When you expand an entry for a public cloud host, the details do not include information for these resources.

   

5. Select one or more entries to set the focus of the Home Page.

   • Choose an entity type, and set the scope to one or more of those entities.

   • For different types of groups, click to set a single group as your scope.

   If you choose a category of entities to limit the list, then you can select one or more of the entities for your session scope. After you select the entities you want to include in your scope, click SCOPE TO SELECTION to set the session scope to those entities. Click SCOPE to set the session scope to those entities.

   

   If you choose groups or clusters, then you can select a single entry to set the scope for your session. When you select an entry in the list, that sets the focus of the Home Page. For example, if you select a host cluster in the Search listing, you set the Home Page focus to that cluster. Use the Home Page bread crumbs to set a different scope, or you can return to Search and set a different scope from there.