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Hands-On Lab: Test Drive the Enhanced HTML5Dashboard Designer with Release 8.0 of CA Unified Infrastructure Management (Formerly Known as CA Nimsoft Monitor)

Tim O’Connor, Kurt Spence and Robert Vacante

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CA TechnologiesCA Product Management

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AbstractRelease 8.0 for CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) (formerly known as CA Nimsoft Monitor) has an enhanced HTML5 dashboard designer that provides a quick and intuitive way to design custom views for your management environments. With the ability to present near real time data via a great widget library, the dashboard designer provides a clean way to present performance and alarm information to your customers.

In this hands-on lab, CA UIM experts will share various tips and techniques for the designer—and you can then try your hand at a designing your own. You will come away ready to take your own CA UIM dashboards to the next level!

Tim O’Connor

Kurt Spence

Robert Vacante

CA Product

Management

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Agenda

HISTORICAL DASHBOARDS AND HTML5

DASHBOARD TOUR

ADVANCED DASHBOARD OPTIONS

NEW FEATURE SNEAK PEAK

HANDS ON: BUILDING YOUR OWN DASHBOARD

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THE ROLE OF DASHBOARDS IN MONITORING1

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USM REPORTS LISTVIEW

GEOVIEWS BADGE VIEWS

Dashboards in Monitoring

CA Unified Infrastructure Management provides a wealth of data visualization tools out-of-the-box:

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DASHBOARDS provide the ability to customize and tailor the presentation of

data to you exact needs, from simple to complex:

Dashboards in Monitoring

CA Unified Infrastructure Management provides a wealth of data visualization tools out-of-the-box:

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Dashboards: Broad to Specific

– High-level information:

Regional data center health, customer satisfaction metrics or sales information

– Or very detailed diagnostic information:

Top 10 systems by CPU utilization, network throughput, disk capacity.

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Example: CA UIM Support

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Legacy and HTML5 Dashboards

A Complete Rewrite…For improved Performance, Flexibility and User Experience.

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Legacy and HTML5 Dashboards: Key Advantages

Greatly improved user experience in design and when viewed

“Live View” feature to quickly see a dashboard with real data.

Broad, expanding widget library

Automatic migration to new dashboards

From Flex to HTML5: accessible from more devices, including tablets and mobile

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Dashboard Tour:

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Advanced Dashboard Topics

Data Sources:

Alarm: Shows the highest severity alarm

Dashboard For drill-down, shows the highest severity alarm in the linked dashboard

Metric: Displays metrics from monitored systems

Probe: To retrieve data directly from a probe

SLO/SLA: For displaying SLO/SLA compliance percent

SQL: Allows data to be retreived directly from any database

QOS:

Parameters:

Variables allow dashboards to be parameterized so that a copied dashboard can be easily re-used in another, similar situation.

For example, a dashboard created for one department can be repurposed for use in a similar situation without recreating the dashboard. The dashboard designer need only change the values assigned to parameters to change the context of the dashboard.

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Example on the Show Floor

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Advanced Examples:“But quite honestly, even the most

complex dashboard is easy to build.” - John

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Sneak Peak: Dashboard Context Selectors

Selectors control and modify the behavior of widgets in a dashboard:

Planned for Release at the End of 2014!

Set variable to control timeframe

Custom variable choices

Navigate to another dashboardwith context

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