View Options

Many views offer a search feature and other settings that you can change to modify the view. In addition to filtering and time frame options, the following options are available for most data views:

• Editing view settings , such as changing its title or severity categories.
• Seeing more data by selecting another "page" of a table view.
• Increasing or decreasing the number of items that are shown per "page".
• Collapsing the view so that the data is hidden.
• Changing the managed item context for the data shown in the view.

  Note: Users with the 'Save Changes to Shared Views' role right can save view modifications to their own user account. The changes persist after logout. However, other users cannot see changes to views.

Other view options are specific to the selected view. The available options depend on the format and data source.

Trend View Options

The trend views that are available in context pages let you quickly and easily change the trend lines that are displayed on the graph. The following options also apply to multitrend views Multitrend views are customizable views that let you combine trend data from multiple interfaces in a single line trend chart. You can compare the data from up to 12 interfaces in a single multitrend view.:

• Right-click a metric in the chart legend and select Hide to remove it from the view.
• Exclude all other metrics by right-clicking a metric in the legend and selecting Focus.
• Narrow the focus to a precise time frame using the zoom feature.

Trend views also include an option to add a "goal line" as a visual indication of performance levels or thresholds. You can supply any value or label for the goal line, and you can show or hide the goal line for a selected trend view.

Table View Options

In table views, you can drill down to detailed data for individual items. Use the page feature to see metrics from a longer list of items. Increase the Max Per Page value to increase the size of the view and the number of table rows per page.

You can sort table data columns by selected metrics and also select columns to include. Click a table column to sort. A white arrow on the column lets you access a menu of table column options. Select Columns to enable and disable the metrics that were enabled for the table by default.

Browser View Options

The browser view is a unique view type that lets you add any URL to a selected report page. You can use this view to compare external factors alongside your network performance views. Also, the browser view lets you update internal and external data dynamically.

Multiple external factors can affect the performance of your network and servers, such as world events and adverse weather conditions. The ability to view a weather map and news headlines alongside performance data views on a single report page can help you better understand patterns in network performance.

Device Admin Option

When a view does not display CA Infrastructure Manager Data Aggregator data, this option lets you drill down directly to the CA Infrastructure Manager Data Aggregator Admin page to troubleshoot monitored devices and items.

More information:

Generate a URL for a View

Change the View Settings

You can change several settings for an enterprise-wide view or an interface-specific view. The available settings depend on the view that you are editing.

For example, some views have settings for data direction--so you can set the view to display inbound data, outbound data, or all data. Other views have settings for the type of measurement--so you can set the view to display data rates, data volumes, or interface capacity utilization.

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 in the view title bar and select Edit from the menu.

   The View Settings dialog opens.

4. (Optional) Edit the view Title to change the text that appears in the view title bar.
5. (Optional) If the view has Measurement Settings, select the type of measurement to show in the report:
   • Rate: Rate of traffic, expressed in Mbps.
   • Bytes: Volume of traffic.
   • Utilization: Percentage of total capacity used by the traffic.
6. (Optional) If the view has Direction Settings, select the data direction on the selected interface:
   • Out: Outbound traffic from the interface.
   • In: Inbound traffic to the interface.
   • Total: Inbound and outbound traffic combined.
7. (Optional) For an interface-specific view, change the interface whose data is included: Select a different interface from the Context Settings table.

   Note: You can change the interface for an individual view on a custom dashboard that you defined with the Interface context. You cannot change the interface for standard views on other types of dashboards or on interface context pages.

   To re-sort the table, click a column heading. You can click the white arrow to choose between Sort Ascending and Sort Descending.

   To change the columns that are included in the table, display the Columns list: Click near the right edge of a column heading, then click the white arrow and select Columns.

8. (Optional) For an enterprise-wide view, change the context to change the set of managed items that can be used in the view: Select a group in the Context Settings tree.

   For example, to restrict the interface set to a domain, select the domain from the IP Domains list.

9. (Optional) Specify which users are affected by the setting changes: Select a value from the Apply Changes list:
   • For All Tenant Users: Saves the changes so that they apply to all users.
   • My User Account: Saves the changes to your user account as the default setting for this view.
   • My Current Session: Reverts the changes when you log out.

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

10. Click Save to save your changes.

    The View Settings dialog closes. The view refreshes to reflect your updates.

Note: 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.