Creating a Dashboard for Vityl IT & Business Monitoring

You can create as many dashboards as you need to. Also, after you add a dashboard, you can change its layout and settings at any time by customizing it.

1. In the Navigation Pane, click Dashboards. If the menu is hidden, hover over the Navigation pane to expand it.
2. Click Add on the Dashboards page.
3. Type a Name for the dashboard. Each name must be unique among all users.

Time section

1. Auto-Refresh is automatically turned on and set to a default of 5 minutes. If required, over-type this setting with a new time period at which information in this dashboard is updated. The default setting is 5 minutes.

1. If required, turn on and specify the Business Hours The time period at which the elements within this dashboard are considered in use by the business. under which this dashboard operates. If left turned off, this dashboard operates on a 24x7 basis.

2. Choose a Default Time Range. Choices are:

   • Last 60 Min
   • Last 24 Hours
   • Today
   • Today (Business Hours)
   • Yesterday
   • Yesterday (Business Hours)
   • Last 3 days
   • This Week
   • Past Week
   • This Month
   • Past Month
   • Last 6 Months
   • Last 12 Months
   • This Year
   • Past Year
3. Use the Compare with Previous Period toggle switch to determine whether ALL the widgets contained within this dashboard have a comparison with the corresponding previous time period applied. This enables the view of data from the corresponding time period under which each widget is operating. See Comparing with Previous Period for more information.

Edit Rights section

1. Use the drop-down menus to indicate whether or not you want to allow any Fortra Insite Users A single user profile used to access Insite. or Groups A group of user profiles with a similar role that have been granted access to Insite. to be able to edit this dashboard. Not selecting any users or groups keeps it private to the user you're logged on as.

Share With section

1. Use the drop-down menus to indicate whether or not you want to allow any Fortra Insite Users A single user profile used to access Insite. or Groups A group of user profiles with a similar role that have been granted access to Insite. to be able to view this dashboard. Not selecting any users or groups keeps it private to the user you're logged on as.
2. Toggle the Guest A user that has not been assigned a profile in Insite but is allowed restricted access in order to view dashboards to which they have been granted access. button to indicate whether or not you want to allow users who log on with the Guest profile to see this dashboard. On allows guest users to see the dashboard. Off prevents guest users from seeing it. For more about the Guest profile see Authentication.

Click Save.

The dashboard is created with Edit Mode set to On. You now have the option of manually splitting your dashboard into widget panes by using the arrow icons OR you can click the Select Quick Layout button to select a predefined widget panel layout.

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