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Create New Dashboards

Some of the content described in this article is available in meshIQ Manage versions 12.1 and later.
For a quick overview of what's new or changed, visit the meshIQ Highlights page for a version-by-version breakdown.  

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Version 12.x and Later
Version 11.3 and Earlier

Version 12.x and Later

There are two ways to create a new dashboard.

  1. To add a new dashboard, choose one of the following ways to open the Create New Dashboard dialog:
    • Click the button in the Dashboards panel on the left side of the screen.
    • Click Manage Dashboards to open the Manage Dashboards window, then click Add a new dashboard Add buttin.png button.
  2. Enter a name for the new dashboard. Each dashboard must have a unique name.

  3. Select Yes to generate initial widgets in the new dashboard or No to create a empty dashboard with options for creating widgets (see Adding a widgets to your dashboard). If you select Yes, the following additional fields are displayed:

    • Widgets template: Select a template for your widget. This is optional.
    • Product: Select the object product type for the initial widget that will be generated. Choose from IBM MQ, IIB/ACE, EMS, Kafka, Solace, ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ. The widgets that are generated for each product are listed below.

      • Kafka: Topic widgets.

      • Solace: Broker and Message VPN widgets.

      • RabbitMQ: Virtual host and queue widgets.

      • IBM MQ: Local queue and channel widgets.

      • EMS: Queue, route, bridge, and connection widgets.

      • IIB: Broker, server, application, service, and REST API widgets.

      • ACE: Integration node, server, application, service, and REST API widgets.

      • ActiveMQ: Broker and queue widgets.

    • Workgroup Server: Select the workgroup server. Use the Multi-Selection checkbox to select multiple workgroup servers.
    • Use original path: By default, the Use original path check box is selected, indicating that the new dashboard will use the Node and Queue manager of the selected dashboard template (from the widgets template list). To choose a different Node or Queue manager, clear this check box.
    • Node: Select a specific node, or use an asterisk to include all objects from all nodes.
    • Queue Manager: Select a specific queue manager, or use an asterisk to include all objects from all queue managers on the selected node(s).
  4. Click Create. A new dashboard is added to the current User Perspective with initial widgets (if applicable).

New Dashboard with No Widgets

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Version 11.3 and Earlier

There are two ways to create a new dashboard.

  1. To add a new dashboard, choose one of the following ways to open the Create new Dashboard dialog:
    • Click the plus button NewDashBt.png  located immediately to the right of the dashboard tabs.
    • Click Manage Dashboards to open the Manage Dashboards dialog, then click +New.
  2. Enter a name for the new dashboard. Each dashboard must have a unique name.

  3. Select Yes to generate initial viewlets in the new dashboard or No to create a empty dashboard with options for creating viewlets (see Adding a viewlet to your dashboard). If you select Yes, the following additional fields are displayed:

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    • Viewlets template:  Select a template for your viewlet.  This is optional.
    • Product:  Select the object product type for the initial viewlets that will be generated.  Choose from IBM MQ, IIB/ACE, EMS, Kafka, Solace, or RabbitMQ. The viewlets that are generated for each product are listed below.
      • Kafka:  Topic viewlets.
      • SOLACE: Brokers and Message VPNs viewlets.
      • RABBITMQ: Virtual host and queue viewlets.
      • IBM MQ:  Local queue and channel viewlets.
      • EMS:  Queue, route, bridge, and connection viewlets.
      • IIB:  Broker, server, service, REST API and Application viewlets.
      • ACE:  Integration node, servers, applications, service, and REST API viewlets.
      • From version 11.2.4 onwards, ActiveMQ: Broker and Queue.
    • Workgroup server: Select the workgroup server. Use the Multi-Selection checkbox to select multiple workgroup servers.
    • Use original path: By default, the Use original path check box is selected, indicating that the new dashboard will use the Node and Queue manager of the selected dashboard template (from the Viewlets template list). To choose a different Node or Queue manager, clear this check box.
    • Node: Select a specific node, or use an asterisk to include all objects from all nodes.
    • Queue Manager: Select a specific queue manager, or use an asterisk to include all objects from all queue managers on the selected node(s).
  4. Click Create. A new dashboard is added with initial viewlets (if applicable). New dashboards are added to the current User Perspective. 
    NewDashw-KafkaTopic.png

New Dashboard with No Viewlets

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