Creating and Saving a Graph View

You can create a variety of Graph Views within Monitoring > Graph Center that allows you to check and analyze the health of your infrastructure from different perspectives.

Creating a Graph View Copied

To create a new view click on the Create button:

Create a graph

Once clicked, a new configuration window is displayed:

Configure Graph View options

This window offers to create graph views in one of four ways:

To create a new graph view, click anywhere on the menu ’tile’.

Host/Host Group View Copied

Click on the Create button and then click on Host/Host Group:

Host / Host Group option

Once clicked, the following window is displayed:

Configure Host / Host Group view

First, you must choose the Hosts on which you wish to base your graph view. To do this, select a Host Group and then select the Hosts in the left selection box and click the ‘right’ arrow to add them into the right selection box, as shown below:

Note

You can add Hosts from different Host Groups.

Then refine the data you want to display by using the Options. The dropdown boxes will repopulate with Service Checks / Host Templates that only apply to the selected Hosts.

Note

If a Service Check is not applied to all of the selected Hosts, it will still be displayed, however the graph for that Service Check will only display the Hosts who have the Service Check applied.

Click Submit and your new Graph View is displayed.

Hashtags View Copied

Click on the Create button and then click on Hashtags.

Once clicked, the following window is displayed:

Configure Hashtags view

From the dropdown on the left, choose the Hashtag for which you wish to view the graphs:

Note

Only hashtags with ‘metrics’ will be listed.

Then refine the data you want to display by using the Options section. The dropdown boxes will repopulate with the Hosts and Service Checks tagged with the chosen Hashtag.

Click Submit and your new Graph View is displayed.

Service Check View Copied

Click on the Create button and then click on Service Check.

Once clicked, the following window is displayed:

Configure Service Check view

The first section allows you to choose either:

Then refine the data you want to display by using the Options section. The dropdown boxes will repopulate with the Hosts which have the selected Host Template/Service Checks.

By default, the ‘All’ radio button is selected but you can also use the ‘Select Host’ radio button to choose one or more individual Hosts.

Click Submit and your new Graph View is displayed.

BSM:Component View Copied

Click on the Create button and then click on BSM:Components:

Once clicked, the following window is displayed:

Configure BSM Components view

First choose the Component for which you wish to view the graphs.

Then refine the data you want to display by using the ‘Options’ section. The dropdown boxes will repopulate with the hosts and Service Check data.

You can either select to filter by Hosts by selecting the Hosts within the component that you wish to view the graphs of, either individually or ‘all’ (via the ‘Select all’ checkbox):

By choosing ‘Hosts’, all Service Checks on the selected Hosts will be graphed.

If you wish to graph only a sub-section of the service checks within the Component, select ‘Service Check’ and select the Service Checks you wish to graph. This allows filtering by Service Check, but will display all Hosts that have that Service Check selected.

Finally, click Submit and the Graph View will be created.

Saving a Graph View Copied

There are two buttons available in the top-right area: Save and Save As that allows you to save new views or simply save edits that you have made to an existing view.

Saving a new view Copied

Once you have created your first graph view, you may want to save it so that you can easily be loaded it in the future. To save, click on the Save As.

Give the Graph View a meaningful name and if needed more description and click Save.

This view is then available for you to open at any point, as explained in Modify Graphs.

Saving an edited view Copied

If you have amended an existing graph using the ‘Edit’ button (as per Modify Graphs ), you can then chose to:

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