Pie Charts: They’re Not Just For Dessert Anymore

Have you ever been in UMP and said to yourself, “I really wish I could display this information in a simple, easy-to-view format that shows a percentage distribution?” Of course you have.

The new pie chart widget in the UMP dashboard portlet allows you to display information from a SQL data source (where the first column contains data that can be categorized as a label, the second contains a quantity). This lends itself beautifully to something like displaying the percentage of alarms by severity.

For example, this query:

SELECT
     severity, count(severity)
FROM
     nas_alarms
GROUP by severity;

Could result in this pie chart:

In the above example, it’s easy to see that most of the alarms fall into the “minor” category.

You can even turn on or off the legend or the pie labels, depending on how much information you want to display.

Upgrade to Nimsoft Monitor 7.6 today and try it yourself. It’s as easy as !