Reading the Dashboard

The Dashboard is your first view every time you start SAS Environment Manager. It is an at-a-glance view of the things that are most important to you when administering your environment, such as favorite resources, recent alerts, and resources that are currently experiencing problems.

The page contains a collection of portlets that provide information at a glance for a measure or a type of resource. You can select which portlets appear on the Dashboard, so the Dashboard shows you the information you most need to see. Selecting an entry in a portlet takes you to more detailed information about the entry. For example, selecting an entry in the Recent Alerts portlet takes you to the Alert Detail page for that alert. The following figure illustrates a sample Dashboard portlet.

Sample Portlet

The Dashboard is divided into two columns, and the portlets that can appear differ between the left and the right column. Some portlets can appear only once on a Dashboard, whereas other portlets can appear more than once. The portlets that can appear more than once are ones that display information about a selected group of resources. Each instance of the portlet displays information about different resources. The portlets that can appear only once display information for the entire environment.

This table lists the portlets that you can choose to appear on a Dashboard, as well as where they can appear and how many instances are allowed.

Portlets
Name	Description	Location	Instances
Auto-Discovery	Lists new and changed resources and enables you to add them to the inventory. Check this portlet after you install a plugin to accept the newly discovered resources into the inventory.	Right	One
Availability Summary	Indicates the availability of selected resources, grouped by resource type. This portlet refreshes every minute.	Left	Multiple
Control Actions	Lists recently performed actions on managed resources and upcoming scheduled actions. Also indicates which quick control actions are most frequently performed.	Right	One
Favorite Resources	Lists selected resources.	Right	One
Saved Charts	Displays selected charts as a slide show.	Left	One
Recent Alerts	Lists the most recently triggered alerts for selected resources. This portlet refreshes every minute.	Right	Multiple
Recently Added	Lists platforms that have been recently added to inventory.	Left	One
Search Resources	Enables you to search for resources. The search supports case-insensitive, partial-term queries for a specified inventory type.	Left	One
Summary Counts	Displays a count of managed resources by inventory type. Only those resources that you are allowed to access are displayed.	Left	One
Group Alerts Summary	Displays traffic light indicators for resource alerts and group alerts for selected groups. To view a list of alerts that have fired for a group, click that group’s traffic light. To view a group page, click that group’s name.	Right	One
Metric Viewer	Displays selected metrics for selected resources. This portlet refreshes every minute.	Right	Multiple
Problem Resources	Lists all resources that have problem metrics and provides details, including availability status, number of alerts per resource, number of times the metric has been out of bounds, and the most recent time that the out-of-bounds metric was collected.	Right	One

Because the Dashboard page can be customized, each user has access to multiple Dashboards, with each one modified according to different needs. Each user has access to a personal Dashboard, which contains portlets selected by the user. In addition, each user can also access a Dashboard for each of the native roles of which the user is a member. Each of those Dashboards is customized with the portlets that are most useful for that role. To choose a different Dashboard, select the one that you want to use from the Select a Dashboard field.

A new Dashboard type is automatically created whenever you create a new native role.