Using My Workspace

My Workspace provides you with a private area in the Operations and Web console that you can customize for your specific needs. Using My Workspace in the Operations console, you can create folders to organize the workspace, add shortcuts to favorite views, save useful searches, and create views that are only visible to you.

You can create dashboards and add an existing dashboard from the Monitoring workspace. For more information, see Using My Workspace in Web console.

Your configuration of My Workspace will be available to you in any Operations or Web console that you sign in to using the same Windows credentials.

Create folders in My Workspace

My Workspace contains two default folders: Favorite Views and Saved Searches. You can create additional folders to better organize your workspace. All new folders that you create will be created under Favorite Views.

To create a new folder in My Workspace

1. Right-click in the navigation pane.

   Note

   To create a nested folder, right-click the folder in which you want to create a child folder, and then continue to step 2.

2. Point to New and select Folder.

3. Enter a folder name, and select OK.

Add Shortcuts to views

In My Workspace, you can add shortcuts to any existing views in the Monitoring workspace.

To add a view to My Workspace

1. In the Monitoring workspace, select a view, right-click, and select Add to My Workspace.

2. Specify the folder in My Workspace where you want the view to appear.

3. Select OK.

When you go to My Workspace, you'll see the view that you added listed in the navigation pane.

Save searches

You can save useful searches in My Workspace to run at any time.

To save a search in My Workspace

1. Select Saved Searches.

2. In the Tasks pane, select Create New Search.

3. In the Advanced Search window, select the object type for your search. Your options are:

   • Alerts

   • Events

   • Managed Objects

   • Monitors

   • Object Discoveries

   • Rules

   • Tasks

   • Views

   Each object type displays a unique set of criteria for your search. For more information on advanced search criteria, see Using Advanced Search.

4. In the displayed criteria for the object type, select the condition that you want to search against.

5. Each condition that you select is added to the Criteria description. Select the underlined value in each condition to edit the value. After you edit a value, select OK, and then edit the next value. Continue until all conditions have values specified.

6. Select Save parameters to My Favorites.

7. Enter a name for the saved search and select OK.

You can run saved searches right-clicking a search in the list and then selecting Search Now.

Create views

Views that you create in My Workspace are unique views, not shortcuts to existing views. As an operator, you can create views in the My Workspace pane. You must have the rights of the Author role to create a view in the Monitoring workspace.

Note

The general instructions in the following procedure don't apply to Diagram, Web Page, or Dashboard views. For more information on creating a view, see the specific view type in How to Create and Scope Views in Operations Manager.

To create a view in My Workspace

1. Right-click in the folder where you want to store the view and point to New. You can select any view type. For more information on the view types available, see View Types in Operations Manager.

2. In the view properties, enter a name and description for the view. The view properties dialog contains two tabs: Criteria and Display.

   On the Criteria tab, in the Show data related to field, specify the item to target. The item you select will display related conditions in the Select conditions section. For more information, see Creating and Scoping Views in Operations Manager.

   After you select a condition, you can edit the value for that condition in the Criteria description section.

3. In the Show data contained in a specific group field, you can select a group to limit the search results to members of that group.

4. On the Display tab, select the columns that you want displayed in the view. You can also specify how to sort the columns and group the items.

5. After you've specified the conditions and values for the view, select OK. The new view will appear in the navigation pane.

Next steps

• In the Operations console, you view monitoring data, manage monitoring configuration, create your own custom views and dashboards that are personalized for your experience, and perform management group administration by Using the Operations Manager Operations console.

• For more information on using Health Explorer, see Using Health Explorer to Investigate Problems.

• To learn how to customize views in the Operations console defined in management packs imported in the management group, see How to Personalize a View in Operations Manager.