In the Working with Views section of Chapter 3, Exploring the Consoles, we introduced the Dashboard View and walked you through creating a new dashboard using the Grid Layout with four different widgets. Here, we'll take a look at each of the other dashboard layouts and templates that you can work with in OpsMgr and we'll also show you how to unlock a hidden Datacenter Dashboard template that contains some unique options for visualizing the health and performance of your monitored objects.
In Figure 9.1, you can see a list of all the available dashboard layouts and templates that you get with a default installation of OpsMgr. These options can be accessed when you create a new dashboard view in the Monitoring workspace.