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What Your account will need permission to access the FileWave Dashboard. When/Why There are three permission levels for the dashboard for each admin logon: No Access Read-Only Access Read-Write Access The permissions are defined with the following o...

What Once you access the dashboard, you are going to be presented with a default system dashboard that looks something like this: When/Why This simple dashboard (called FileWave System) is basically the equivalent of the dashboard in the native admin.  It...

What FileWave provides a number of default dashboards, some of which will be useful to you directly, and others that will be more useful to support staff. When/Why Of course everything that we do with the dashboard is about reporting.  There are hundreds of...

What Switching between various dashboards is the first thing you are going to want to do once you login. When/Why Switching between various dashboards allows you to look at different types of data in different ways.  I may want to open new browser tabs with...

What The dashboard panels are highly customizable and allow you to change the appearance of your dashboard to suit your needs. When/Why Just copying and pasting content into a dashboard is a good first step, but we can tailor the information to be portrayed...

What FileWave can expose an association to the Dashboard so deployment progress is visible as a Dashboard widget. When/Why Use this when a rollout is important enough that administrators or other stakeholders need a quick progress view. It is most useful for l...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

What The FileWave dashboard can show raw device data, but aggregated data is what gives you the quick summary. Aggregation rolls many records into something easier to read, such as counts by version, model, or status. When/Why Use aggregation when you need the...

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...

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...

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...