By default, the “drive” or “navigation mode” configuration allows you to select an element in one portlet and automatically update content in other portlets (when available) on the same page. Or, you can configure the portlet to drive one or more specific portlets on the page.
For example, if we have a Navigation, Element Properties, Alarms and Information portlets on the same Dashboard page; when we click the Administration > Server element in the Navigation portlet, the other portlets (Element Properties, Alarms, and Information) update to show related information about the Server element.
The following sections describe more about enabling drive functionality as well as configuring only specific portlets to drive.
By default, the following portlets are used to drive other portlets without any configuration:
When enabled, the following portlets can be used to drive other portlets:
NOTE:Not all portlets can be driven. For example, the Navigation, Search, Starter, SLA reporting, and Chart Builder portlets are among the portlets that cannot be driven.
To enable or disable “drive” or “navigation mode”, see the configuration instructions for the portlet type you are configuring in Section 8.0, Configuring Operations Center Portlets.
In addition, an element’s right-click context menu can used to perform this same drive functionality and update content on the page. For instructions on creating right-click menus, continue to Section 7.5.1, Adding Right-Click Context Menus.
In order to contain the drive functionality to specific portlets on a page, each driven portlet must be tagged, and then referenced by the driving portlet.
To enable specific portlets to be driven by element selection:
To set up identifiers for the portlets to be driven, do the following for each portlet to be driven:
Click the options icon and select Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, then click the Common tab.
Under Element Link Action, in the Portlet Tag field, specify a unique name for the portlet.
For example, if it is the Alarms portlet, you might enter Alarms.
Click Save, then exit the preferences for the portlet.
To setup a portlet to drive the above portlet(s), do the following for the portlet that is the driver:
Click the options icon and select Preferences.
Verify the portlet is setup to “drive” other portlets. In most, this requires the Navigation Mode option to be selected.
For specific instructions, see the portlet’s configuration section in Section 8.0, Configuring Operations Center Portlets.
Click the Advanced tab, then click the Common tab.
Under Element Link Action, in the Tags of Portlets to Drive field, specify the identifier/tags set up in the previous procedure.
For example to reference and drive the Alarms portlet in the example setting from the previous step, we might enter Alarms.
When referencing more than one portlet, use commas to separate the entries without any extra spaces.
Click Save, then exit the preferences for the portlet.
The driver portlet (Step 2) now drives the referenced portlets (Step 1) when an element is clicked.