Design your own dashboard in IT Expert

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Administrators and users with Editor and Operator permission can design dashboards in IT Expert and set a default dashboard for the organization to get an instant overview of the most important information.

You can create location-specific dashboards and widgets that show graphs for sensors from monitored devices or key values based on a single sensor. 

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Inactivity timeout

Administrators can set the inactivity timeout to 30 minutes (the default), 2 hours, or 8 hours on the Administration > Organization tab. This setting affects all users in the organization.

Note: Allowing more than 30 minutes of inactivity is considered a security risk and is not recommended.

When the browser is set to display the dashboard in full screen mode, the dashboard continuously updates although the user is eventually logged out.

Create a dashboard

1. Log in to IT Expert.

2. Click New dashboard in the upper right corner.

   

3. Name your dashboard and select a time span. Click Create.

   

Now you're ready to add widgets to the empty dashboard.

Add widgets to the dashboard

You can add different types of widgets to your dashboard: Graphs; Single value; or one of the default widgets: Map, Alarm count, Latest alarms or Custom text.

Graph

If you want a visual overview of one or more sensors from your monitored devices, add a Graph to your dashboard.

This example shows battery time remaining for three different UPSs in a graph. 

1. Click Add widget > Graph.

   

2. Name your widget and go to Add series to find the sensors. Choose Single sensors, Calculated sensors, or Static value.

   Tip: Click Help in the list to learn more about math functions on ITE dashboards.

   

   

3. Select the sensors from the list you want to monitor. Use the search bar above the list or the filters to the left to narrow the selection.

   

4. Click Save.

   

5. Add names for the legend and click Add.
   Tip: You can choose to hide or show the legend and the x or y axes on the graph.

   

6. Choose Save to keep the dashboard changes. 

Single value

If you want to see key values based on single sensor values, you can add a Single value to your dashboard.

This example shows battery time remaining for three different UPSs as single values. 

1. Click Add widget > Single value.

1. Name your widget and go to Add series to find the sensors. Choose Single sensors, Calculated sensors, or Static value. 

2. For the example Single sensor option was selected. Select the sensor you want to monitor.

   

3. Name the legend and click Add.

   

4. Repeat step 1 - 4 to add single value widgets for the remaining sensors. You can change the position and the order of the sensors by dragging them on the grid, see Resize and rearrange widgets on the dashboard for more details.

   

5. Choose Save to keep the dashboard changes. 

Default widgets

You can also add preconfigured ready-to-use widgets to your dashboard. Click Add widget and select from the following:

• Graph
• Single value
• Map
• Alarm count
• Latest alarms
• Custom text

Set a dashboard as the default for the organization

Administrators and users with Editor permission on All locations can set a dashboard as the default for the organization.

Click Default on the dashboard to select or deselect a dashboard as the default.

The dashboard you set as the default displays for all users in your organization when they log in to IT Expert. Otherwise, the Overview dashboard is displayed.

Dashboards you create are shown as tabs in alphabetical order, after the Overview. Click More... to display the entire list.