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What If a scrape target does not appear in Grafana, first check whether Prometheus can see the job and whether the scrape is failing. When/Why Prometheus exposes a targets page that shows the status of configured scrapes. That page is the quickest place to che...

What Before you build a formal Grafana panel, it often helps to look at the aggregated data directly. The Explore view is the fastest way to sanity-check what your report is producing. When/Why Use Explore after you have configured the Prometheus scrape and wa...

What Once your aggregated metric is available in Grafana, you can turn it into a panel that answers the question you actually care about. When/Why Pick the visualization based on the story the data needs to tell. Pie charts work well for a current distribution...

What We learned in the 3.1 section how to build our own custom panels.  "Extra Metrics" is an independently built tool to automate creation of a few reporting elements for us without doing it manually.  This solution is NOT directly supported by FileWave, but...

What Use this process to configure email in Grafana so alert notifications can be sent by email. When/Why Configure email before you create or test alert notifications. How Edit the Grafana configuration file on the FileWave Server: /usr/local/etc/filewave/gra...

What Set up Alerts for those times you want to be notified. Alerts are only available for Visualisations of type Graph When/Why Leverage your Web Admin Custom Dashboard elements to build Alerts. How Select your chosen Graph and from the drop down choose ...

What The FileWave Dashboard provides summary information about your FileWave server, your deployments, and pretty much anything else you'd like to know about your FileWave environment. When/Why The best time to use the dashboard is when summary data is impo...

What In FileWave Anywhere table views, column search helps you filter the visible list to the records you need. It is useful in large views such as Devices, Licenses, Filesets, or other grids where scrolling through the full list would be slow. When/Why Use co...

What The Edit Fields tool allows you to choose to display/hide additional inventory fields beyond the standard fields that are included by default. When/Why Typically, we'll want to use this tool when there are elements that are important to us beyond the d...

What Pinning columns allows you to make sure that a particular column is always where you want it. When/Why Most of the time that we pin a column it is because that column is really important and we want to see it all of the time.  For instance, if I consta...

What FileWave Anywhere tables can be sorted by column, and the columns themselves can be moved into the order that works best for the task. When/Why Use column sorting and moving when a table has the right data but the default order is not the most useful view...

What The creation of a new deployment connects one or more payloads with one or more devices/groups. You can also use deployments to create exclusions on devices or groups. When/Why Deployments may be quite straightforward.  It may be as simple as "I need t...

What The Targets of a deployment are the endpoints that we'll define for deploying to.  Targets allows us to choose individual devices, groups, smart groups and LDAP sources for our deployment.  Targets also allows us to avoid deploying to certain devices or ...

What In the Payloads tab, we'll choose all of the payload(s) we want to include in this deployment.  That is, items, such as software you want to deploy.  This can be one item, many items, or even nothing. When/Why Of course the point of a deployment is to ...

What The Options tab allows you set the "rules" for the installation, such as the timing and the license assignment type for instance.  These settings vary by type of payload When/Why For the most basic type of installations (an iOS VPP app for instance), w...

What The Deployments Summary tab shows you the effective action that your deployment will perform. When/Why It is very important to review this tab to make sure that at minimum the number of devices being impacted makes sense.  This is your opportunity to s...

What When you create a deployment in FileWave Anywhere, an unfinished deployment may appear as a Deployment draft on the Deployments page. When/Why Deployment drafts protect work that you have started but not finished. If you close the browser, move to another...

What The FileWave WebAdmin has the capability to directly target LDAP OUs when defining a deployment.  This is a significant improvement over previous FileWave versions which required special smart groups to be built for this purpose. When/Why We will likel...