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Dashboards and Reports

Dashboards are report-building pages within the CA Performance Center user interface. They appear as menu items that are accessible from the Dashboards tab. Each dashboard is a collection of views that present data from registered data sources on a single web page. The layout, views, time interval, and group context of each dashboard can be customized.

Note: Your user account role rights determine the dashboards that you can see.

Reports describe the output from an exported dashboard page. Reports contain the same data and information as the associated dashboards, but they are formatted to meet the requirements of the export destination. You can print reports, send them by email, or export them in PDF format.

Dashboards are organized in menus. Menus are segments of the Dashboards tab that are used to organize dashboards by their content. By default, Administrators and Designers can customize menus and assign them to user account roles.

CA Performance Center offers a set of factory dashboards and menus, which are available for use immediately after registering data sources. Users with the required role rights can also extensively customize dashboards, menus, and views to create a custom system for individual operators.

The menus and dashboards that are available to you are displayed when you hover over or click the Dashboards tab.