Save, Subscribe and Share a Dashboard (Add to My Dashboards)

You can save and share a customized dashboard, to revisit it any time in the My Dashboards menu, or you can send regular email updates of your customized dashboard to stay proactive and catch any issues before they catch you. The subscription email has both a PDF attachment of the dashboard (containing frozen data), and also a link to the live dashboard, to view the saved view settings (menus at the top of the dashboard) with live data.

To save, share and subscribe, you first view a dashboard, customize it, then save it, and finally subscribe someone to regular email updates.

To view the link to a dashboard, you must have a username for Aternity, so the email also includes a PDF attachment which anyone can view.

Subscribe and share a dashboard

When you re-open a saved dashboard, it displays the latest data with the menus and sections which you set at the time of saving.

For example, if you have the ideal timeframe and set of sections in your SLA dashboard, you can save and share this view with others.

Procedure

  1. Step 1 Open a browser and sign in to Aternity.
  2. Step 2 Navigate to the dashboard you want to save.

    Use the search box in the top bar to quickly start monitoring a device hostname, username or application, or enter the name of a dashboard.

  3. Step 3 Set the view of the dashboard as you want it saved.
    A saved dashboard preserves the view settings: top menu selections and section displays
  4. Step 4 To save a dashboard, select Save in the top bar of some dashboards.

    A link to a saved dashboard opens it with the same view settings when you saved it (menu selections at the top of the dashboard, or choosing to view a section name). It does NOT freeze the data itself within the dashboard, just the view settings.

    Save a dashboard's view settings
    Field Description
    Name

    Enter a unique name, up to 22 characters long. It can also include spaces.
    Private

    Select this if you are the only user who can access this saved dashboard.
    Public

    Select this if you want other users in your organization to access this saved dashboard.
  5. Step 5 To access a dashboard which you saved, select Main Menu > My Dashboards.
    Access a saved dashboard

    Alternatively, to view dashboards saved by others, select select Main Menu > Shared With Me.

  6. Step 6 To subscribe yourself or anyone else to regular email updates of your saved dashboard, select Main Menu > My Dashboards > dashboard_name > Subscribe.

    The system sends an email regularly containing a live link to the saved dashboard, and a PDF attachment with the dashboard's frozen data at the time.

    While anyone can view and share the PDF attachment, you must have an Aternity username to view a live link to a customized dashboard.

    Subscribe to send regular email updates of a saved dashboard
    Field Description
    Email addresses

    Enter all the email addresses who receive a subscription email for this saved dashboard at a given frequency (like weekly).

    To enter more than one address for the same frequency, separate the addresses with a semi-colon only (;) no space.

    If some addresses would receive this dashboard email at a different frequency (say, monthly), select + Add more to add them as a separate entry.
    Frequency

    Select the frequency when the system sends the subscription mail:

    • Daily sends every night (server time).

    • Weekdays sends every night, Monday to Friday (server time).

    • Mondays sends every Monday morning (server time).

    • Monthly sends on the first day of every month in the morning (server time).
    + Add more

    Add another set of email addresses which receive subscription emails at a different frequency.
  7. Step 7 To rename a saved dashboard, or change its visibility to other users, select Edit Properties.
    Edit the properties of a saved dashboard
  8. Step 8 To remove a saved dashboard, in the My Dashboards menu item, select Delete.