vROps – A Methodology for Authoring Dashboards [VMware Cloud Management Blog]
vROps – A Methodology for Authoring Dashboards
vRealize Operations Manager, as we know it today, comes packed with a vast array of built-in content. We have dashboards, views, reports, alerts, and a myriad of other content to help us paint the right picture for different types of users. Of this content, the most flexible, but daunting, can be dashboards. While it is admittingly easy to drag and drop some pictures of widgets on to a dashboards, a common pitfall is not fully understanding the capabilities of widgets and how to arrange them in to the most efficient workflows. In this article, we’re going to discuss some methodologies on defining workflows, choosing widgets and building interactions to create the most effective dashboards.