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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

You're reading from   Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms Build, manage, and control an open hybrid cloud infrastructure using Red Hat CloudForms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785283574
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sangram Rath Sangram Rath
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Preface 1. Red Hat CloudForms Internals FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Red Hat CloudForms on Red Hat OpenStack 3. Building a Hybrid Cloud Environment Using Red Hat CloudForms 4. Provisioning Instances Using Red Hat CloudForms 5. Life Cycle Management Using Red Hat CloudForms 6. Automation Using Red Hat CloudForms 7. Managing Red Hat CloudForms 8. Monitoring a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Using Red Hat CloudForms 9. Optimizing Using Red Hat CloudForms 10. APIs for Red Hat CloudForms Index

Dashboard


The Cloud Intelligence dashboard, or "dashboard" as it is called, is the default view when you log in to the Red Hat CloudForms portal. This dashboard is made up of widgets that display various pieces of information about the hybrid cloud infrastructure, like this:

Widgets

Widgets are small apps on the dashboard that organize and display various pieces of information about the hybrid cloud infrastructure. A set of default widgets is loaded; these contain configurable items. There are nine default widgets that can be selected to display on the dashboard.

There are four different categories of widgets:

  • Reports

  • Charts

  • RSS feeds

  • Menus

Here is a screenshot that shows an example of a widget that shows Guest OS information in a pie chart:

Adding a widget

To add a widget, click on the + button and select a widget from list, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

Note

The + sign to add a widget may be grayed out if all the widgets are already displayed.

Note

Only widgets that are not displayed are...

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