IDM 7.2.1

Manage dashboards

Dashboards let you make shortcuts to frequently-required tasks. The Quick Start dashboard displays by default when you log in to the admin UI. You can create additional dashboards, or add and remove widgets from the existing dashboards.

Default dashboards

To display all configured dashboards, select Dashboards > Manage Dashboards. The following dashboards are provided by default.

System monitoring dashboard

The System Monitoring Dashboard includes information about:

Audit Events

Includes information on audit data, organized by date.

Audit Event Widget

Cluster Node Status

Includes information on cluster nodes.

Cluster Node Status Widget

System Health

Includes information on system resource usage.

System Health Widget

Last Reconciliation

Includes data from the most recent data reconciliation.

Last Recon Widget

Resource report

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Resource Report Dashboard

  • The Resource Report includes widgets that show the number of active users, configured roles, and active connectors.

  • The Resources widget shows all configured connectors, mappings, and managed object types.

Business report

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Business Report Dashboard

The Business Report includes widgets related to login and registration activity.

Custom dashboards

You can set up additional dashboards for customized views of the admin UI, and embed external dashboards such as Kibana, Grafana, or other monitoring boards.

Create a new dashboard

To create a new dashboard, select Dashboards > New Dashboard. Enter a dashboard name and select whether this dashboard should be the default board that is displayed when you load the admin UI.

For a customized view of the admin UI, select Widgets as the Dashboard Type, click Create Dashboard, and add the widgets that you want exposed in that view.

You can also customize the view by starting with an existing dashboard. In the upper-right corner of the UI, next to the Add Widget button, click the overflow menu > widget, and select Rename or Duplicate.

Embed an external dashboard

  1. Create a dashboard, and select Embedded URL as the Dashboard Type.

  2. Enter the URL of the dashboard that to embed, and click Create Dashboard.

Add and move widgets

To add a widget to a dashboard, click Add Widget and select the widget type. Widgets are grouped in categories. Scroll down to the category of the widget you want to add.

To change the position of a widget on a dashboard, click and drag the move button .

To add a new Quick Start widget, select the overflow menu > widget in the upper right corner of the widget, and click Settings.

To embed an admin UI sub-widget in the Quick Start widget, specify the destination URL. If you are linking to a specific page in the admin UI, the destination URL can be the part of admin UI address. For example, to create a quick start link to the Audit Configuration tab, at {secureHostname}/admin/#settings/audit/, enter #settings/audit in the destination URL text box.

Any changes that you make to the dashboards are written to your project’s conf/ui-dashboard.json file, which has the following properties:

admin UI Widget Properties in ui-dashboard.json
Property Options Description

name

User entry

Dashboard name.

isDefault

true or false

Default dashboard; can set one default.

widgets

Different options for type

Code blocks that define a widget.

type

lastRecon, resourceList, quickStart, frame, userRelationship

Widget name.

size

x-small, small, medium, or large

Width of widget, based on a 12-column grid system, where x-small=4, small=6, medium=8, and large=12; for more information, see Bootstrap CSS.

height

Height, in units such as cm, mm, px, and in

Height; applies only to Embed Web Page widget.

frameUrl

URL

Web page to embed; applies only to Embed Web Page widget.

title

User entry

Label shown in the UI; applies only to Embed Web Page widget.

barchart

true or false

Reconciliation bar chart; applies only to Last Reconciliation widget.

Default admin UI widgets

The following tables display an alphabetical list of the available widgets:

admin UI reporting widgets

Name Description

Audit Events

Graphical display of audit events.

Count Widget

A reporting widget that provides an instant display of the number of specific objects; for example, active managed users, and enabled social providers.

Dropwizard Table With Graph

Does not appear in the list of widgets unless metrics are active.

Graph Widget

Provides a graphical view of a specific managed resource; for example, managed users, based on some metric.

Last Reconciliation

Shows statistics from the most recent reconciliation, shown on the System Monitoring dashboard.

New Registrations

The number of users that have self-registered that week. To display data using this widget, you must enable user self-registration.

Password Resets

The number of password resets that week. To display data using this widget, you must enable password reset.

Resources

Connectors, mappings, managed objects; shown in Administration dashboard.

Sign-Ins

The number of managed users that have signed in to the service that week.

Social widgets

Name Description

Daily Social Logins

Social Registration (year)

Graphical display of social registrations over the past year.

System status widgets

Name Description

Cluster Node Status

Lists the instances in a cluster, with their status.

Utility widgets

Name Description

Embed Web Page

Supports embedding of external content. Web pages that you embed using this applet must support the correct x-frame-options. For example, Google has a Maps Embed API.

Identity Relationships

Graphical display of relationships between identities.

Managed Objects Relationship Diagram

Graphical diagram with connections between managed object properties; also see View the Relationship Configuration in the UI.

Quick Start

Links to common tasks; shown in Administration dashboard.

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