Creating a dashboard for monitoring

Customize your console by creating pages with personalized dashboards to use for monitoring.

About this task

For monitoring purposes, you can create customized dashboards by arranging one or more widgets (predefined or custom) that are required to perform the task. Only users that have been assigned the role of iscadmins can create dashboards.

The HCL Workload Automation engine must be version 9.1 or later.

Note: For all the details about options and fields displayed in the panels, see the online help by clicking the question mark located at the top-right corner of each panel.

Perform the following steps.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation bar, click Console Settings Console Settings > Pages > New Page.
  2. From the Page Settings panel, enter a descriptive Page name and a Page location to indicate where you want the dashboard to be displayed in the navigation bar.
  3. By default, the Page layout is set to Proportional. It is recommended to change this value to Freeform or Fluid if a very large number of widgets is used.
  4. Click OK to start creating your dashboard.
  5. Click Dashboard Widgets to show the widgets available for you to use.
    According to the data set you want to monitor, use the appropriate widgets, as described in Table 1:
    Table 1. Data sets and corresponding dashboard widgets
    Data set Dashboard widgets
    Engine data set List, Table
    Job data set List, Table
    Job History data set List, Table
    Job Stream data set List, Table
    Job Risk Level data set Analog Gauge, Value Status Gauge, Table, Bar Chart
    Note: If you plan to use the All status values filter, you can only use the Bar Chart widget.
    Job Status data set Table
    Jobs Count data set (Not available on z/OS) Value Status Gauge, Bar Chart
    Log Messages data set List, Table
    Plan Progress data set
    Note: To obtain an accurate progress bar, the value for the progress indicator must be between 0 and 100.
    Volume Bar
    Prompt asked data set Value Status Gauge
    Prompt data set List, Table
    Workstation data set List, Table
    Workstations Status data set Value Status Gauge, Bar Chart
    Note:
    • If you plan to use the All status values filter, you can only use the Bar Chart widget.
    • When you select the Available filter, the results include both linked workstations and workstations on which jobman is running.
    • When you select the Not available filter, the results include both unlinked workstations and workstations on which jobman is not running.
  6. Drag the widget you choose to the lower part of the page and position it to meet your requirements.
    Note: For the Gauge widget, click the down arrow in the upper-right corner of the widget and select Events. Clear the NodeClickedOn event for the subscribed events to avoid unnecessary reloading of the widgets.
  7. Click the down arrow in the upper-right corner of the widget and select Edit.
  8. Select the data set you want to use for retrieving information to display in the widget. You can choose among all data sets provided by HCL Workload Automation. If you select the most widely used data sets, you can also use wires to create in the widget a direct link to the table listing the data set results. This feature is available for the following data sets:
    • Job Status
    • Jobs Count (Available for distributed engines only)
    • Workstations Status
    • Job Risk Level
    • Prompt Asked (Available for distributed engines only)
    Note: If you disable plan data replication in the database, the retrieved data might be inconsistent or wrong.

    For more information about replicating plan data in the database, see Replicating plan data in the database

    To create a direct link to the table listing the data set results, perform the following steps:
    1. Click Show Wires Show Wires in the upper right corner of the dashboard. The Summary of wires page is displayed.
    2. Click New wire.
    3. Open the arrow next to the widget name and select NodeClickedOn. Click OK.
    4. In the Select Target For New Wire dialog, select DashDrillDown.
    5. Select Load the selected target page and Switch to the selected target page. Click OK.
    6. In the Transformation dialog, select None. Click OK. You have now linked the widget to the table listing the results of the data set of your choice.
  9. When you are satisfied with your settings, click Save and exit.

Results

You have created your dashboard to suit your monitoring needs. For more details about working with dashboards or pages, creating wires, and editing dashboard content and layout, see Jazz for Service Management: Integration Guide.

What to do next

You can also set your dashboard as either a Startup page or as your welcome page so that it is displayed each time you log into the console.

More in-depth information about dashboard widgets to help you quickly build integrated dashboards can be found in the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEKCU_1.1.3.0/com.ibm.psc.doc/tip_original/dash_c_twl_dashboard_widgets.html.

See this helpful tutorial about creating your own customized dashboard: http://twsuser.org/customized-dashboard/.

Helpful videos on designing dashboards on the DASH Wiki page.