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Custom dashboards were introduced in IT Advisor 9.5.1. Edit capabilities were introduced in 9.5.2.
Use the IT Advisor web client's Dashboard menu to create dashboards from scratch or use a pre-built template to get an overview of your data center KPIs for Capacity, Power History, PUE (24 hour), and Sustainability metrics (formerly Energy Efficiency) data for the equipment you can access.
To view data, select a dashboard and the location or energy system, and date range if available.
Tip: Bookmark the dashboard in your browser or keep it running on a separate screen.
Create a dashboard from a template
Go to Dashboard and click New dashboard.
Specify a Name for the dashboard.
Under From Templates, click Next.
Select a template:
- Capacity: Includes Cooling capacity, Network capacity all, Network capacity copper, Network capacity fiber, Capacity Overview, Power capacity, and U space Capacity widgets
- Power History: Includes the Power History widget
- PUE: Includes the Power Usage Effectiveness (24 Hour Average) widget
- Sustainability: Includes Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency, Historical Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency, Historical Power Usage Effectiveness, Power Usage Effectiveness, Subsystem Cost, Capacity Utilization, Carbon Usage Effectiveness, Renewable Energy Factor, Subsystem Loss, Water Usage Effectiveness widgets
Click Create.
Note: This example shows a portion of the Sustainability dashboard.
Create a dashboard from scratch
When you create a dashboard from scratch, you create your own widgets.
Go to Dashboard and click New dashboard.
Specify a Name for the dashboard.
Under From scratch, click Start.
Click Add Widget to add one or more widgets to the dashboard.
- General: Specify the widget properties: Name, Description, Visualization Type (Line or Bar), Data source (KPI), and Dataset. Click Add Dataset to add additonal datasets.
- X-Axis: Specify the axis title, data type (linear or datetime), and label format
- Y-Axis: Specify the axis title
- Series: For each dataset, specify the Series name and Color. Click the toggle to enable markers and specify the marker radius markers and to enable and specify a custom tooltip.
Click Create Widget.
Edit dashboard
To modify or delete a dashboard, click Edit Dashboard.
You can add and remove widgets, edit widget properties and size, and click and drag to reorder the widgets on the screen.
To save the dashboard as a PDF, click Export.
