Access Dashboards in the Dashboard Library

Aternity includes an extensive set of dashboards out of the box that provide its users with solutions for key use cases.
View all dashboards available in the library

It also provides a set of data sources that allow users creating their own dashboards, improving solutions for existing use cases as well as providing solutions for new use cases. Many of these dashboards are extremely useful to everyone and non-intuitive to create.

Browse the library to view some new dashboards, add them to your dashboard collection or use them as inspiration and edit them to better suit your needs before saving them.

The Aternity dashboard Library presents a vast variety of new categories and dashboards accessible from the Main Menu.

Access the Library from the Main Menu
There are endless ways you can use the shared dashboards to check almost anything you want to investigate. The library share data on the following things and more:

  • What device models you need to replace due to their bad performance

  • Who in the organization uses a forbidden software

  • A weekly performance pattern of applications

  • What user activities use the most of network resources

  • and so on

  • Browse All – Here you can find all dashboards that exist in the Library, no matter to what category they belong. This view allows searching for a specific dashboard out of all dashboards in the library, as well as sorting them by their Last Modified date. To see new dashboards added to the library since your last visit, use the Browse All page and sort dashboards by the Last Modified date, so that you locate all those dashboards that were added/modified after your last visit to the library.

  • Administration – These dashboards provide tools for the Aternity account administrator.

  • Applications – These dashboards provide application owners and IT people with a wide variety of monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to help them manage their apps.

  • Compliance – These dashboards provide a robust compliance solution, allowing corporations to monitor and respond to various potential risks. Here are some examples of such risks: users who use unapproved software versions or even a forbidden by the company software, a suspiciously high activity during off-hours, user’s activities that use abnormally high network resources, and more.

  • Devices – These dashboards provide tools for checking device health, including CPU and memory usage, stability index, and more.

  • Help Desk – These dashboards provide tools for IT Service Desk personnel allowing them to follow up on remediation actions they execute, operating system issues, and more.

  • Inventory – These dashboards provide tools for a proper inventory management of organizational assets, including the tools for better purchasing decisions, device transition tracking (for example, how many devices still have old Windows versions), and more.

  • Productivity – These dashboards provide tools for analyzing productivity across departments in your organization.

  • Virtualization – These dashboards provide tools for better understanding and managing complex virtual environments of virtual desktops and virtual application servers. These tools provide an alternative look at Remote Display Latency, as well as an overview of the virtual application server.

To Do This: Do This:

To get to the library

Go to the Main Menu > Library. Select the required category or All to see all available in the library dashboards.

To open a dashboard from the Library

Find the right dashboard type to display your most important metrics. Once you open a dashboard from your account, it presents the actual data from your enterprise in the predefined format.

  1. Go to the Main Menu > Library and select the category; alternatively, select All to see all available in the library dashboards.
  2. Select the required dashboard by clicking Go to dashboard.

To save the dashboard to your menu
  1. Select the required dashboard.
  2. Select Save at the right upper corner of the window.
  3. Select in what category you want to save this dashboard.

Now it appears in the Main Menu. If you just saved it, without editing, then each time you open it, it will be immediately updated with all latest changes that were made to the original dashboard in the library. In other words, your saved dashboard is embedded in your menu and stays always updated according to its origin in the library.

This operation is similar to a subscription. The difference is that you subscribe to the whole category, but you save a certain single dashboard.

To subscribe for a specific category

Go to the Main Menu > Library > All, select one of the tabs to open the required category, and then select Subscribe to Category to add the category and all of its current and future dashboards to your menu.

Alternatively, go to the Main Menu > Library, select the required category, and then select Subscribe to Category.

Every change to this category in the library, will automatically apply to the category and its dashboards in your menu. The changes are performed by the library manager. You cannot delete or edit these dashboards from the Main Menu.

Subscribe to the category
See the category to which you have just subscribed in the Main Menu

To unsubscribe from the category

To delete the category from the menu, go to the Main Menu > Library, open the category you want to unsubscribe from and then select Unsubscribe from Category.

To quickly search for a specific dashboard name

Easily search for a specific dashboard by its name, using the Search field at the right upper corner of the window.

To sort dashboards

Easily sort by dashboard name or by the Last Modifieddate, using the Sort by drop-down at the right upper corner of the window.

To edit a dashboard from the library
  1. Go to the Main Menu > Library > All.
  2. Select one of the listed categories.
  3. Select the required dashboard by clicking Go to dashboard.
  4. Select Edit Dashboard at the right upper corner of the window.
Note

Editing a dashboard creates a local copy in the Main Menu that you can share with your organization. The edited copy is not linked and do not affect its origin in the library. Since it is not tied to the library anymore, you will not see the updates done to this dashboard in the library.

To edit the saved in your menu dashboard

If you saved the dashboard for later viewing and now you want to edit it, go to the Main Menu and in the category where you saved this dashboard, hover with the mouse over its name, and then select the Edit icon next to its name.

Edit the saved in your menu dashboard
Note

Editing a dashboard creates a local copy in the Main Menu that you can share with your organization. The edited copy is not linked and do not affect its origin in the library. Since it is not tied to the library anymore, you will not see the updates done to this dashboard in the library.

To delete a dashboard from your menu

 Select the dashboard you saved to your menu and then select the Delete icon next to its name.
Delete the dashboard from the Main Menu