Creating Consolidated Data Views with Dashboards

BMC TrueSight Operations Management provides dashboards to create consolidated and customized views of your monitored IT environment. Dashboards are built from dashlet templates. Once you have selected the dashlet that corresponds to the type of view you wish to create, you can access a specific type of data and present it graphically.

TrueSight Operations Management - EMC Storage Monitoring monitors availability, capacity, and performance for EMC disk arrays. It makes this data available to you through different dashlets for you to create a clear view of the performance and status of your storage environment within a private or shared dashboard. The product leverages the BMC TrueSight Operations Management unified features and capabilities to offer you a deep visibility into over 200 key metrics.

When a dashlet in the dashboard identifies a problem, it also acts as an access point to investigate and troubleshoot the root cause.

This chapter explains how to create consolidated views for some of the most critical elements of your EMC environment. Dashboards report on critical aspects of your EMC storage systems, and consolidate and normalize information from a variety of sources. While saving you considerable time and effort, a unified view can help you rapidly and proactively detect poor storage performance and hardware failures.

Tip

Once you have created a dashboard, you may want to use its settings to create another dashboard for a different device. To do so, copy the dashboard from the Dashboards page:

1.	Click My Dashboards or Shared Dashboards.

2.	In the action menu to the left of the dashboard name, select Copy Dashboard.

3.	The new dashboard appears in the My Dashboards list as Copy of <DashboardName>.

The following topics describe how to create dashboards for:

•	Detecting High Processor Utilization

•	Diagnosing a Bad Disk Layout

•	Diagnosing Slow Volumes

•	Monitoring Hardware Components

•	Reclaiming Space of Unused Volumes

Use cases were performed with BMC TrueSight Operations Management v.10.1.

For detailed information about dashboards and dashlets options and features, refer to the BMC documentation.