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Custom Dashboards

I am new to Solarwinds Orion so apologies if this has been answered before.

What I'm trying to do is set up a custom dashboard which can be an overview of our Linux servers (we also monitor a bunch of windows servers and network equipment but don't want them in this dashboard)
I would like to be able to display graphs etc which can show stats like:

Total network traffic across all Linux servers
A summary of CPU and memory usage - Show me servers which are using a high % of their memory or CPU etc
Show me any Linux servers which are nearly filling up their disk

All active alerts on only the Linux servers

There are others as well but that would be a good start, is something like this possible?

Cheers
Martin

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orioncrack

Settings, All settings, Manage Views.

Copy the Top 10 View and then with that copy, filter on the servers you want.

Add a chart for network traffic.

Or create a new View with custom chart data of your choosing if you don't want the Top XX charts. This is just a quick way to get started in what you are asking for.

HTH

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orioncrack

Settings, All settings, Manage Views.

Copy the Top 10 View and then with that copy, filter on the servers you want.

Add a chart for network traffic.

Or create a new View with custom chart data of your choosing if you don't want the Top XX charts. This is just a quick way to get started in what you are asking for.

HTH

martinrw

Thanks for that, After an initial look that seems to be doing what I require, I'll just have to pay a bit more to see if I can get all of the stats etc that I am looking for.

It was a little unintuitive to me to create a link to this new view / dashboard from the menu so if it helps anyone else in the future what I did was.

Click on the My dashboards menu
then customise

edit the menu bar / section required

scroll right to the bottom and click add
the URL is http://yoursolarwindsurl/NewDashboardName

singlebuoy

What do you mean "filter on the servers you want"? Where? Under the "customize view" section of the copied view, it doesnt give you any options to add servers to the view.

mesverrum

There is an option near the bottom called view limitations, you can go into those and select a group of nodes, or a group of groups, or nodes with pattern matched names, or key into you custom properties, it's a pretty open ended tool.

marnell

Is there a way to add an image file of my network switch on the page? (png, jpg, html source)

IE:

Node 3850-48ue (image is of a single switch)

Node 3850 stack 4 (image of 4 stack 3850)

mesverrum

In the past I have taken custom images and added them to my Orion server inside the inetpub folder where the other images are already stored and then used custom HTML links to display those, if you want to use a different image for each category of server you could use a custom property to define which images loaded for each device.

Something like assuming I had a custom property called NodeImage that is equal to 3850-48ue.jpg then you could use a custom html resource with something like this in it:

singlebuoy

The steps below helped me, however I dont see the dashboard under all login accounts. Esp my View Only account. Under my admin account, the dashboard name shows in the drop down menu but not with a View Only account. Where / how can I fix this?

Click on the My dashboards menu
then customise

edit the menu bar / section required

scroll right to the bottom and click add
the URL is yoursolarwindsurl/NewDashboardName