Operations Manager Management Pack Authoring - Creating Dashboards in the Operations Console

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1/17/2024

This document is part of the Operations Manager Management Pack Authoring Guide. The Microsoft System Center team has validated this procedure as of Revision #1. We will continue to review any changes and periodically provide validations on later revisions as they are made. Please feel free to make any corrections or additions to this procedure that you think would assist other users.

Introduction

You create a new dashboard in the Operations Console by right-clicking a folder in the Monitoring pane and selecting New > Dashboard View. The wizard will guide you through the process of creating and configuring the dashboard, but you must understand the available Widgets and Templates that you have available.

Widgets

A widget is a component that is available to dashboards that you create in the Operations Console. Each cell in a dashboard can contain a single widget. A widget accesses a particular set of data or performs a particular function and presents its information in the dashboard. Each widget provides a specific set of customizations that you can modify according to your particular requirements.

Depending on the Dashboard Layout that you select, the dashboard may have a fixed set of widgets or may allow you to define a number of configuration of cells that can each contain a widget of your choice. You can get guidance for each of the widgets from the Widget Reference. Additional widgets may be provided with subsequent versions of Operations Manager or from third parties.

Templates

The first thing that you must specify when you create a dashboard is its Template which will define the widgets that will be included in the dashboard and their layout. You cannot change the dashboard's template once it has been created. The following sections provide details on the available templates. Additional templates may be provided with subsequent versions of Operations Manager or from third parties.

Service Level Dashboard

A Service Level Dashboard displays information on one or more Service Level Agreements and their included Service Level Objectives. You cannot configure the individual components but can edit the configuration of the dashboard to define the SLAs and time period to include.

Service Levels component that lists the SLAs that you selected for the dashboard.
Service Level Objectives component which lists the SLOs for the SLA that is selected in the Service Level cell.
Service Level Details component that displays a speedometer visualization for the current measure of the selected SLO and a line chart showing the history of the measure.

Summary Dashboard

A Summary Dashboard includes a fixed set of widgets displaying a combination of state, performance, and alert information. The widgets are independent of on another and do not display information based on the objects selected in another widget. You do not provide any configuration when you create the dashboard other than the name but instead configure each widget independently after the dashboard is created.

Summary Dashboards include the following widgets. You can follow the links to the details for these widgets to understand how to configure them.

Object State

An Object State dashboard includes multiple widgets showing information about a particular object or group. You cannot configure the individual widgets but can edit the configuration of the dashboard to define the target object or group that all the widgets will include in addition to the criteria for included alerts.

Object State dashboards include the following widgets. You can follow the links to the details for these widgets to understand how to configure them.

Object Health Widget (Health) showing the monitors for the target object or group. If a group is selected only monitors targeted at the group itself are included, not the monitors of the group's members.
State Tiles Widget (Host) showing the health state and open alert count for the target object's host. Note that if you selected an unhosted target such as a group or a distributed application for the dashboard, this widget will be empty.
State Widget (Contained objects) showing the health state of any objects contained by the target. If the target is a group, then this will be the members of the group. If the target has no contained objects, then this widget will be empty.
Instance Details Widget (Object Details) that displays the details of the target object or group.
Alert Widget (Alerts) showing the active alerts for the target and any of its contained objects. If the target is a group, then alerts from the members of the group are included. You set the criteria for which alerts are included in the configuration for the dashboard itself instead of for this individual widget.

Column Layout

A Column Layout is an empty dashboard that allows you to set your own layout and add and configure your own set of widgets. When you create the dashboard, you specify the number of columns that it will have. The dashboard will start with one cell in each column. You can add additional cells by clicking the gear icon at the top right of the dashboard and selecting Add Cell.

You can get information on the widgets available to add to the dashboard from Operations Manager Dashboard Widgets.

Grid Layout

A Grid Layout is an empty dashboard that allows you to set your own layout and add and configure your own set of widgets. When you create the dashboard, you specify the number of cells that it will have and select a layout for the cells. You can change the layout of the cells after the dashboard has been created, but you can't change the number of cells.