Using the CA Configuration Automation User Interface › CA Configuration Automation UI Overview › Dashboard Panel

Dashboard Panel

The Dashboard panel contains two tabs: Charts and Visualization.

Charts Tab

The Charts tab contains a Dashboard pane that includes two folders: Dashboards and Charts. The Dashboard folder contains the following predefined Dashboards that display graphical summaries of the objects you are managing with CA Configuration Automation:

• VM Hosting Servers
• VM Guest Software Components
• VM Guest Servers
• Virtualization
• Software Components
• Services
• Servers (Unmanaged)
• Servers (Managed)
• Servers
• Compliance
• Communication Relationships
• Change History

The Charts folder contains the following subfolders which contain related charts:

• All Charts
• Servers
• Relationships
• Virtual Environment
• Applications
• Software Components
• Services
• Rule Compliance
• Change Detection
• Grid Information

Dashboards, and their corresponding charts, contain options for displaying them, configuring them, removing them, refreshing them, and changing how they display information. Additionally, you can create new and custom Dashboards, and import and export Dashboards from and to other CA Configuration Automation implementations.

For detailed information about the Dashboard panel, see Dashboards.

Visualization Tab

The Visualization tab contains a Visualization pane that includes two folders: Graphs and Templates. The Graphs and Templates folders both contain the following subfolders:

• Applications
• Servers
• Services
• Software Components

You can view any of the predefined views in the Graphs subfolders, or display, modify, and save any view in the Templates subfolder to create a custom graph.

For detailed information about the Visualization panel, see Visualization.