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Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

By : Sangram Rath
Book Image

Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms

By: Sangram Rath

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hybrid Cloud Management with Red Hat CloudForms
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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...