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Change the Context for a View

You can change the context for a single view on a dashboard. Change the context of an enterprise-wide view to show data from a different set of managed items. Change the context of an interface-specific view to show data from a different interface.

Changing the context for a view is useful for troubleshooting performance issues. For example, you can use your group structure to compare data from different geographical regions.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open the dashboard that contains the view that you want to modify.
  2. (Optional) Change the time frame, if necessary.
  3. Click the Edit icon To change the view thresholds, click the Configure icon. in the view title bar and select Edit from the menu.

    The View Settings dialog opens.

  4. Take one of the following steps:
  5. Change the view Title to reflect the new context.

    The context types that are available depend on the type of view.

  6. Select the scope of your changes from the Apply Changes drop-down. Select one of the following options:

    Note: The availability of these options depends on your user account role rights.

  7. Click Save.

    The view is updated with data from the new context.

You can also change the context for a dashboard, which applies the selected group or managed item as a filter to all views on the page.