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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

You're reading from   Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Using SCOM 2016 TP 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289743
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Greene Kevin Greene
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing System Center Operations Manager 3. Exploring the Consoles 4. Deploying Agents 5. Working with Management Packs 6. Managing Network Devices 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications 8. Alert Tuning the Easy Way 9. Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards 10. Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting Index

Widgets


As you learned earlier, the built-in dashboards in OpsMgr come as either a template or a layout. The templates tend to be already pre-populated with cells and these give you a limited choice of customization. With layouts however, you have the option to customize your dashboards by choosing from a list of widgets that will define and display data from your monitored objects.

Once you have your dashboard layout configured, choosing widgets to populate the dashboard is easy. All you need to do is select the Click to add widget… link from an empty dashboard cell as shown in Figure 9.5.

Figure 9.5: Adding widgets

This will then open the New Dashboard and Widget Wizard and as shown in Figure 9.6, you'll be presented with a long list of widgets that you can use to bring your dashboards to life.

Figure 9.6: Selecting a widget

In the Using the alert widget section from Chapter 8, Alert Tuning the Easy Way, we discussed how to create a new dashboard with the alert widget to help you tune your...

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