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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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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 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 ...