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Create a Custom Dashboard

Administrators can customize the predefined CA Performance Center dashboard pages or add new dashboards. In this use case, we create a single dashboard that can be useful for all CA Performance Center users.

When you create a dashboard, you select the views and data context. The default data context, Summary, is appropriate for all users who will use this dashboard. And you also select the menu in which the new dashboard appears. Menus let you share the dashboard with other CA Performance Center operators.

The views in a custom dashboard can also be customized. For example, you can select a group context, or you can specify a custom view title.

Follow these steps:

  1. Log in as a user with the required administrative role rights.
  2. Click the Dashboards tab.

    The Available Dashboards page opens. Each view on the page corresponds to a menu.

  3. Click Add Dashboard next to the menu where you want the new dashboard to appear.

    Note: Select a menu to which all user account roles have access. By default, all roles can see the predefined menus (Infrastructure Health, Application Health, Capacity Planning, Management, and Operations Displays).

    The Add Dashboard page opens.

  4. Complete the following fields:
    Dashboard Menu

    Is the menu where you want the dashboard to appear. Prepopulated with the menu you selected on the Available Dashboards page.

    Menu Item

    Is the name of the dashboard as you want it to appear in the menu.

    Dashboard Title

    Is the name that you want to appear at the top of the new dashboard.

  5. (Optional) Select a layout template for the dashboard.

    The Layout buttons indicate the number of views in each column and row on the page.

  6. Expand the categories of views shown in the left pane.
  7. Select a view that you want to add to the page from one of the expanded lists.

    Note: The maximum number of views per dashboard is 25.

  8. Click and drag the view to the page layout, and drop it where you want it to appear.

    To create a dashboard that is useful for all CA Performance Center operators, leave the default Summary context selected.

  9. Click Save to save the dashboard and add it to the selected menu.

    Every CA Performance Center user can see this dashboard. To make it useful to support each product operator's unique responsibilities, edit their user accounts to select default reporting groups.