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1.6 Exposing an Association to Dashboard (v14+)
What With the new FileWave Dashboard, it is possible to track the status of any deployment graphically. When/Why This will be important to us anytime we have a significant rollout, and especially if we need to communicate the status to others in the organiz...
2.1 Creating Your Own Dashboard
What The beauty of the FileWave dashboard isn't in what we give you...although we definitely give you some great stuff! The beauty of the solution is that you can make it what you want it to be using your own dashboards. When/Why Dashboard elements (or wid...
2.2 Copying Widgets (Panels)
What If we have the power to create our own dashboards, then surely we must be able to add content to them... When/Why We are going to copy a widget (referred to as a panel in Grafana) whenever one already exists and we can leverage it without doing any ext...
2.2.1 Copied Panel is Blank
What In certain circumstances, when you copy/paste a panel into another dashboard, you may find that the new panel is blank. When/Why This will happen most often if the dashboard that you copied from has variables defined that the panel relies upon. For in...
2.3 Widget/Panel Elements
What All panels (or widgets) on the FileWave dashboard are comprised of the same basic elements. This article reviews those elements at a high level. When/Why If you are using pre-existing panels, you won't care too much about how they are built. However,...
2.4 Creating a New Panel (existing data)
What It is possible in the FileWave dashboard to add panels directly from an inventory query (report) with some limitations (no data aggregation). When/Why The data panels are simple enough to add as you'll see below, but the only representation available f...
3.1 Aggregating Data
What Up until now, we have been talking about the capability of the FileWave dashboard to show data. We have looked at pre-built examples, and done a small amount with data from an inventory query. But the real power in the dashboard is the ability to aggre...
3.1.1 Grouping Data Using Prometheus
What In order to do summary reporting, we need to leverage the power of Prometheus. When/Why Anytime we want to do something like report on a rollout or general status, we are going to want to summarize a report. We will accomplish this by using a Promethe...
3.1.2 Testing the Prometheus Scrape
What Assume for a moment you made a typo in the yml file, or some other problem occurs and your new scrape isn't showing in Grafana...how can you see what is going on? When/Why Thankfully there is a service running that allows you to see the status of all P...
3.1.3 "Exploring" Your New Aggregate Data
What We don't have to jump right in to creating a proper reporting panel for our new data. Many times simply looking at the data itself can be helpful. When/Why It is best to always take a look at your resultant data just to give it a sanity check before y...
3.1.4 Creating your Data Panel
What Now that we have our data being passed over to the dashboard, and we know how to access it, we can build a panel using the visualization that fits our data. When/Why Many times, when the data we are presenting is representing the "whole" of an environm...
3.2 Extra Metrics
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...
4.1 Grafana Email Configuration
What Use the below method to configure email in Grafana When/Why Email must be configured in advance of creating any Alerts. How At this time, it involves editing a Grafana ini file. /usr/local/etc/filewave/grafana/conf/filewave.ini Add ...
4.2 Grafana Alert Configuration
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 ...
FileWave Dashboard Intro
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...
Column Searching Criteria
What Whenever we are in a particular table view, the data may be quite extensive and perhaps hard to find. The search tool allows us to temporarily enter search criteria for any table view to quickly find content. When/Why Assume for a moment that we got a...
Columns Adding and Removing (Customizing)
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...
Columns Pinning
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...
Columns Sorting & Moving
What Once we have customized a table view to contain the columns we want, it makes sense for us to want to order the data in the table and to order the columns themselves. Both of these are possible in the FileWave WebAdmin. When/Why Generally we will want...
Create Deployment
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...