The NetIQ AppManager Operations Portal provides users a Starting Point page under the AppManager Operations community by default. The Staring Point page is pre-configured with Navigation, Charting, and Alarms portlets. A second page, the Service Maps page is pre-configured with Navigation and Layout portlets.
Figure 3-1 The Service Maps page
Additional communities and pages can be created. Any portal page can be customized by changing the layout, selecting themes for the “look and feel”, adding content via portlets, and adding navigation or other functionality to the page. These changes are saved between sessions. The various actions that a user can take depend on the permissions assigned.
Portal pages can be considered as desktops where portlets are added. These include personal pages for individual users and shared pages among multiple users. Shared pages are grouped together into communities. Communities offer content to users with a similar interest or skill.
Users can have both personal and shared pages. They switch between personal pages and communities using a link.
For information and instructions, see Personal Pages, Page Configurations, and Sites
in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide.
Any portal page can be customized by changing the layout, selecting themes for the “look and feel”, adding content via portlets, and adding navigation or other functionality to the page. These changes are saved between sessions. The various actions that a user can take depend on the permissions assigned.
For an instructions, see the following topics in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide:
Content from other sources can be added to the portal using portlets. The portal leverages portlets that are JSR-168 compliant and any third-party portlets built with this standard can be deployed in the portal. For more information, see Deploying Portlets to the Dashboard
in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide.
Operations Center portlets are used to surface AppManager Control Center data in the portal. They added to a page in the same way as other content. Some data, such as alarms and element status, can be viewed in real time with automatic updates. Standard alarm operations are often available in the portal.
For an overview and instructions, see the following topics in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide:
The following are common configurations can be made to enhance the portlets used to expose data from AppManager Control Center:
Home Element: An element must be selected as the starting point for viewing data within portlets. Each user has a starting element, called the home element, which is set in Operations Center and is the default starting element for all the Operations Center portlets for that user.
For instructions on configuring a home element for portlets, see Configuring Home and Starting Elements
in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide.
Starting Elements: There are four portlets that can be configured to drive (or update) the element on other portlets on the same page. The include the Starter, Navigation, Search and Status portlets. In addition, a custom right-click menu can be configured to update other portlets based on the selected element.
For information, see the following topics in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide:
Custom Right-Click Menus: Element right-click context menu can be created for some portlets to update information on the page, open additional portal components and an external URL, execute JavaScript commands or perform an operation.
For instructions, see the following topics in the Operations Center Dashboard Guide:.