Dashboards make critical realtime data readily understood. Wouldn’t it be useful to access your dashboards at any time and from any remote device? Well, you can!
Any dashboard can be accessed through a web browser pointed at the server running the Unified Management Portal. A URL identifies the server, the dashboard folder, and the dashboard of interest, and opens the dashboard in a browser window.
Setup
To be accessible to a device within the network, the dashboard must be published within the Dashboard Designer, with visibility set to ‘Public’, ‘Account’, or ‘No Account’ according to the intended viewers. In addition, users accessing dashboards must have appropriate permissions to do so.
Dashboards can be saved and published in folders for specific user groups. This helps organize the dashboards according to the users for whom they were created.
The Call
To access a known dashboard, enter a URL with the following format in a browser address field:
http://(server)/dashboard/jsp/standalone.jsp?path=folder/file
where “(server)” is the IP address or DNS name of the server where UMP is running and the dashboard is stored, and “folder/file” is the folder and file names under which the dashboard was saved.
On connecting to the server, you will be asked to sign in. Then, the dashboard will appear in the browser window.
If you don’t remember the folder or dashboard name, you can enter the URL without the path:
http://(server)/dashboard/jsp/standalone.jsp?
After you log in, the window will take you to a window listing the folders and dashboards for your visibility setting. You can select from any of those dashboards.
Open and view! Dashboard queries run when the dashboard is opened, giving you up-to-date information on systems and performance at any time and from any web-enabled device!
To learn more about CA’s UIM dashboards, visit the wiki documentation here.
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