Some of the content described in this article is available in meshIQ Manage versions 11.1.1 and later. See meshIQ platform Highlights v11.1 for an overview of feature changes.
There are two ways to create a new dashboard.
- To add a new dashboard, choose one of the following ways to open the Create new Dashboard dialog:
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- Click the plus button
located immediately to the right of the dashboard tabs.
- Click Dashboards… to open the Manage Dashboards dialog, then click +New.
- Click the plus button
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- Enter a name for the new dashboard. Each dashboard must have a unique name.
- 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:
- Viewlets template: Select a template for your viewlet. This is optional.
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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.
- Workgroup server: Select the workgroup server.
- 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).
- Click Create. A new dashboard is added with initial viewlets (if applicable). New dashboards are added to the current User Perspective.