Create a Dashboard/Widget

The custom dashboard allows you to manage, monitor, and interpret all the configured applications and their objects. It provides customizable widgets to get an overview of all the ADC Applications within the AppViewX platform and manage/monitor traffic from a single screen. Customize your Application dashboard with predefined and custom widgets as per the business need. You can create dashboard using any of the following method:

To create a dashboard:

  1. Go to Menu > ADC+ > TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT > Dashboards.
  2. If this is the first dashboard you are creating in the system, click the Create Dashboard button that appears in the center of the screen. If you have already created at least one dashboard, click (Create) icon on the top-right or click (Create) icon.
  3. On the Create Dashboard/Widget pop-up window, enter a name for the new dashboard.
    The name must not contain spaces in it.
  4. Select a solution from the Select Solution dropdown to which you want the widget to be created: ADC, Firewall, Certificate, SSH or WAF. Select the solution from the dropdown to which you want the corresponding widgets to be managed: Certificate.
  5. Select the Widget Type as Custom or Default.
  6. If the Custom radio button is selected in Step 5, then choose any one of the below options from the Select Widget dropdown:
    • Application view – Allows you to group the service objects of a single application. The widget displays the health of these objects and the number of current connections that the services are receiving.
    • Traffic statistics – Displays a chart showing live and historic performance statistics for individual device objects.
    • Script execution – Saves script files on a local machine and provides easy access to maintain and execute script commands from within the widget.
    • Traffic grid – Allows you to monitor and control the Traffic Percentage of the Applications across data centers. The status, state, and statistics for applications can be viewed through this widget.
    • Class management – Allows you to view and modify the classes associated with iRules.
    • HeatMap – Allows you to view statistics for managed, failed, and unresolved devices or device groups.
  7. If the default radio button is selected in Step 5, choose the default widgets you want to manage/monitor in the custom dashboard. Select the default widgets you want to manage/monitor in the custom dashboard.
  8. Enter a name for the new widget that you will be creating on the dashboard.
  9. Click Create.
    You are redirected to the widget configuration screen, which varies according to the widget selected.
    Note:
    • The Settings screen for the new dashboard/widget appears. The contents of the Settings screen vary depending on the type of widget you are adding to your new dashboard.
    • All the default dashboards and custom dashboards created are listed in the dashboard inventory.
    • If the Auto Sort Dashboards Alphabetically is enabled the dashboards are listed in alphabetical order, if disabled dashboards are listed based on the created order.