Creating a F5 Modern Dashboard

the_ben_keen

A few months ago, @frak posted a really good article where he talked about his development of a Dashboard for the F5 Devices.  Well, seeing that I've been trying to move more of my dashboards to the modern layout, I figured I would take his framework and move it to a modern dashboard.  Now please note, Modern Dashboards are still being worked on and are only available in version 2020.2 or higher of SolarWinds.  One note is that in 2020.2.6 HF1, you can add a search bar and sort the results without having to put  "ORDER BY" line in your SWQL query.

I took a look at the request my one network customer sent me following his find of Frak's article and we made the decision that we wanted to focus on the following:

• F5 Inventory
• Virtual Servers Inventory
• Pools
• Pool Members
• F5 Connection Graph
• Audit Events
• Alerts

Download the JSON

You may visit the Content Exchange and download the complete JSON for this dashboard.  Please note, Orion 2020.2.6 or higher is required to complete the import of modern dashboards.

• F5 Summary Dashboard Download

stuartd

I'm getting more and more into MD's and can really see the benefits but struggle with "placement aspects".

What I mean, is if I decided to replicate the above, how do I restrict the view to just one F5 or one client or just have it visible (like a plugin on a specific type of page) for all F5's but that it only shows that F5's data?

I guess what I am asking is if I go to:

- Client_#1 - F5_1 I only see the data relative to that F5
- and likewise if I go to Client_#2 - F5_#5 I only see its data

?

As far s I can see, there isn't a modern dashboard widget to drop in and my only usage so far has been by including them in the top level menu system - which would surely get very cumbersome if I kept on that way?