1. User's Guide
  2. Getting Started
  3. Dashboard Tab Operations

Dashboard Tab Operations

The Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker (OECB) provides a web-based Dashboard that can display SIP data statistics to help you monitor and manage the system. The OECB collects only SIP data for the dashboard widgets, including the default CPU and Memory widgets. For this reason, you must set up a valid SIP configuration before the OECB can display any data on a dashboard widget.

The Dashboard supports up to 18 widgets. Each widget can display up to 100 data samples in intervals of 1 hour, 1 minute, or 1 second. You can select a chart, graph, table, web form, or text for the display, depending on the widget. You can customize the dashboard by adding, deleting, and moving the widgets. You can refresh the statistics displayed on the dashboard and you can reset the dashboard to its default display. The default display includes:
  • Highest CPU Usage
  • Current Memory Usage
  • Historical Memory Usage
  • Alarms

The Dashboard page provides the following controls to manage the widgets:

Refresh—Updates all of the widgets on the Dashboard.

Add Widget—Displays a list of widgets that you can add to the Dashboard.

Reset—Resets the Dashboard to display the default widgets and removes all other widgets from the Dashboard.

Each widget contains the particular controls that you need to manage the widget. The controls display as text until you hover over one. Upon hover, the text becomes a button that you click to perform a task. The following screen capture shows Refresh as a button upon hover, while Settings, Export, Removed, and Maximize remain static text.

This screen shot shows the location of the Widget controls within the Widget.
The controls that can display in a Widget include:
  • Export—Download the data displayed in the Widget.
  • Remove—Remove the Widget from the dashboard. When you remove all Widgets from the dashboard, the GUI displays the following message: " Your dashboard is empty, please add a widget or reset to restore the original dashboard."
  • Settings—Set the data sampling parameters for the Widget.
  • Maximize—Display the Widget in ful-screen size.
  • Show Information—Display data in a graph or table.

Note that the operation of widgets, such as those that require the SIP Session module, may affect system performance. The system displays a warning when you add a widget that may affect performance. Oracle recommends adding such widgets at a time when the performance impact will not degrade service.

Add a Dashboard Widget

You can add up to 18 widgets to the Web GUI Dashboard to display SIP and System statistics to help you monitor and manage the system.

The system does not require a re-boot after performing the following procedure.

  1. On the Home page, click Add Widget.
  2. On the Add Widget page, in the left pane, expand Widgets, and click the name of the Widget to add.
    The Web GUI displays the widget name in the center pane.
  3. In the center pane, under Command, click Add.
    The system displays a success message.

    Note:

    If the system displays a warning that adding this widget requires enabling the SIP.Message module, the system enables the module when you add the widget.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Close.
    The system displays the newly added widget on the Dashboard right away.
See "Configure Data Sampling Settings for a Dashboard Widget."

Configure Data Sampling Settings for a Dashboard Widget

  • Confirm that the widget that you want to configure is on the Dashboard. See Add a Widget.
To display SIP and System statistics on a Dashboard widget, the system requires a setting for how often to refresh the display. You can use the default interval or select one from the Auto-refresh interval drop-down list on the widget. Some widgets also display the Table Name drop-down list, where you can set the data sampling frequency. For example, you might configure the widget to refresh the display every 40 seconds and to display the data samples in one minute increments.
  1. Click the Home tab.
  2. On the Widget, click Maximize, and click Settings.
  3. Select a widget display refresh frequency from the Auto-Refresh Interval (seconds) drop down list.
  4. If the widget displays the Table Name drop-down list, select a data sampling increment for the widget display.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click Close.