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Display Graph Element Details

Graphs include various graphical elements that depict your servers, services, applications, relationships, and so on. The Visualization page contains a legend in the right pane that describes the elements in the current graph. Additionally, you can expand nodes on certain elements or mouse-over them to display additional details.

The following procedure describes how to view the details about an application element and the server in which it is installed. It also includes an example of the workflow used to filter the view to only the servers with a specific application installed, and to optionally save that view.

To expand an element to display details

1. Click the Dashboard link (top right), then the Visualization tab.

   The Visualization tab page appears.

2. Expand one of the four predefined sub-folders in the Graphs folder, then select a graph. This example uses the Applications sub-folder and the All Servers by Installed Application graph.

   The main visualization pane displays all servers known to CA Configuration Automation that have applications installed (likely all of them).

3. Click the Display Filter button above the graph.

   The Graph Filter dialog appears.

4. Create a filter that shows a specific application on a smaller set of servers, for example, all Linux servers with Mozilla Firefox:
   1. On the Servers tab on the Graph Filter dialog, click the double right-facing arrow to move all of the servers in the Available Servers column to the Selected Servers column.
   2. Click the Operating System tab, then double-click Linux in the Available Operating System column.

      Linux appears in the Operating System column.

   3. Click the Applications tab, then double-click the application you want to include in the graph. In this example, select Mozilla Firefox.

      There may be multiple versions of the application (3.6.13, 3.6.14, and so) installed on servers, so select all that you want included. The select versions of the application appear in the Selected Applications column.

   4. Click OK.

      The graph is filtered to only display servers with the selected application installed:

      

5. Do one or more of the following:
   • Mouse-over an application icon to display details about the application.
   • Click an application icon to display a navigation icon that you can double-click to display the child element of this application (in this example, the server that hosts it). Right-click the server icon and select Go To Parent to return to the previous view.
   • Right-click an application icon to display the filter that created the current graph. You can edit the filter if you want to change the contents of the graph.
   • Click the Expand Nodes button above the graph to expand all nodes, or double-click an individual node icon in the graph to expand an individual node.

     Server icons representing the servers where the application is installed appear.

     You can mouse-over a server icon to display server details (including the assigned Management Profile, status IP address, operating system, and so on) or right-click to display relationship details, or perform server management operations (for example, Create Snapshot, Run Change Detection, and so on).

   • Click the Save As button above the graph to save the current view as a custom graph.