Configure Application View Widget Using Predefined Layout

AppViewX offers Standard predefined templates for GSLB and SLB Applications management that allows you to create Instant Application Dashboards. By using the templates, the grouping of objects will be handled dynamically upon scaling of applications. This reduces the widget configuring time. Along with this the maintenance of the widget is also automated as the widget will be grouped automatically based on the layout selected. Follow three simple steps to create an App Dashboard quickly for your Application teams that enables seamless self servicing.

  1. Choose the widget Layout/Application grouping format.

  2. Configure Application patterns

  3. Tag Widgets to a Dashboard

Gain instant visibility into your Applications across Devices, Data centers, Sync groups etc., in less than 30 seconds. With frequent change in addition and removal of applications, AppViewX ensures that the Dashboards are dynamic in nature and updates any change in the Application configuration instantly.

With AppViewX’s granular and renewed RBAC, this becomes even more efficient as you can simply tag the rbac resources to the Dashboards. Application dashboards get dynamically created and updated exclusively for the users sharing the tagged resources.
Note: Even custom flavours can be created from this page using custom layout.

To configure an Application view widget using predefined layout,

  1. Navigate to menu > ADC+.
    The ADC+ left navigation pane appears.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click the add icon located beside Dashboards.
    The Configure Dashboard page appears. In this page, the layouts are categorized as follows:

    • SLB Management & Monitoring

    • GSLB Management & Monitoring



  3. Hover the mouse over the desired layout category.
  4. Click the Use button.
    The configuration page opens.
  5. Select the field information in the Application Layout section:
  6. The following table provides the field description for the Application Layout section:
    Field Description
    Object Type* Object type of the application. Select the kind of object you want to add. The options that appear in this field vary based on the selected option in the previous screen.
    Select Object Grouping Format* Choose how the applications should be grouped within the widget. The above image depicts how the applications will be grouped within the widget. The options are as follows:

    • Data Center View - select this option to group the applications based on the value given while adding the device.

    • Device View - select this option to group the applications based on device name.
  7. Enter or select the field information in the Add Objects section.
  8. The following table provides the field description for the Add Objects section as follows:
    Field Description
    Name Name of the widget.
    Add Resource (or) Add Objects

    Add Resource - Click this button to configure the widget with a resource, which is already configured within AppViewX in Accounts > Resource page. By doing this, any updates made to the resources will automatically be seen in the widget as well.

    Add Objects - Click this button to add objects manually or use specific regex patterns so that any new applications matching the given regex will automatically be added to the widget.

    Note: Only 1000 objects can be included in each widget.
    Add Widget Click this button to configure one more widget with the same layout selected. Maximum of three widgets can be created for a layout.
  9. Select the field information in the Dashboard Allocation section.
  10. The following table provides the field description for the Dashboard Allocation section as follows:
    Dashboard*

    Select the New/Existing option to either create a new dashboard or select an existing dashboard into which newly created widget(s) to be added.

    Note: When you select New dashboard option, you need to provide name for the Dashboard.
  11. Click the Create button.
    The widgets are created and you will be landed in the dashboard. You can see the widgets created with the input applications grouped based on the layout selected.

  12. To reconfigure the applications or to change the layout,
    Note: For a widget configured with layout, you cannot add/delete objects or perform any group level actions from the below screen as the groups are updated dynamically based on layout selected.
    • Select the Setting icon from the dashboard options.

    • To change the layout,
      1. Click the edit icon.

        The configuration page opens.

      2. Change the layout in the configuration page, and then click the Update button.

    • To remove the applied layout, click the delete icon, and the click the Proceed button in the confirmation pop-up.

      Note: Removing the layout converts the widget to a custom layout and the associated widget group will no longer update dynamically.