Data representation and Unified Dashboards – Part 2

This is in continuation of Part 1 discussed in this blog. In this section, I shall take you through the various features of Dashboards as offered in IT360 and how to use them.

One major need that you come across in managing the day to day operations of your IT [from IT Infrastructure Management tools] is to create custom dashboards specific to the following roles in your IT Department:

Network Dashboards and Traffic Dashboards for your Network Administrators
System Dashboards for your System Administrators
Applications Dashboards for your Application Administrators
Server Dashboards for your Server Administrators
Dashboards for IT Managers, and CXOs

And, the most important aspect of IT360 dashboards are its widgets and the possibilities / choices that it offers. IT360 offers a set of default dashboards with widgets:

Infrastructure Snapshot – a collection of monitored elements based on their type – Switches or routers or DBs or VMWare and so on.
Business Services – a collection of monitored elements that has an impact on a particular aspect of your business, say a mail service, a CRM service, etc..
Servers dashboards
Applications dashboards
Network devices dashboards
Individual monitored elements like a given server, or a network device or an application
Parameter specific dashboards / widgets like CPU Utilization, Disk Utilization, etc..

In addition, you may create as many dashboards as you may want, specify the number of widget columns [from a 1 column Dashboard up to a 4 column dashboard] and customize their % widths.

The widgets inside a dashboard can be repositioned at will [design time and run / real time] in the UI depending on the importance, its data size, criticality, changing need, etc..

You can select the performance widgets of your choice from the list for a given dashboard. There are about 15 widgets that are made available by default. You can add any number of the above 15 widgets, any number of times to a Dashboard.