Performance Dashboards

A dashboard is a collection of charts that you define (custom), or that Unisphere provides.

See Understanding Performance Management for an overview of Unisphere Performance Management.

The Performance component of Unisphere collects performance data only after you register your storage systems.

A dashboard is a collection of charts that you define (custom), or that Unisphere provides. You can view a set of dashboards for a specific storage system (View dashboards).

You can also view a set of overview dashboards covering all storage systems (View the All Systems overview dashboard).

Custom dashboards must have a unique name up to 32 characters.

Only applicable dashboards (those dashboards that are defined in the dashboard catalog - see Manage dashboard catalog) are displayed for individual storage systems.

The overview dashboards for all storage systems include the following tabs:

  • All Arrays Overview
  • All Arrays Thresholds

When you are viewing a specific storage system, the following dashboard folders are provided:

Default Preconfigured dashboards that are created dynamically and provide the following benefits:
  • Easy visualization
  • Event correlation between application response time and hardware component utilization that is taken at a particular point in time.
  • Fast problem recognition
Depending on the configuration of the individual storage system, all default dashboards might not be available. In addition, you can configure which dashboards are listed in the Default folder.
Custom Dashboards that were created by saving a chart or a group of charts as a custom dashboard.
Runbooks Runbooks are dynamic, customizable templates. After it has been saved, a runbook can be applied to individual instances.

The specific information that is displayed in a default dashboard view depends on the selected storage system and Category. Unless the selected category is System, the information is filtered for the selected category, for example, Storage Group.

Depending on the dashboard that is displayed, you can perform some of the following tasks:

  • Schedule a report to run.
  • Navigate directly to the Charts or Analyze view.
  • Switch between the use of average and maximum values for the current dashboard.
  • Change the number of columns of charts in the current dashboard.
  • Change the timeframe of the current dashboard.
  • Run a PDF or PPTX report.
  • Go to the Storage Groups view from the Storage Group dashboard.

To manage dashboards, you can perform the following tasks: