Select System: Configure Dashboard and select the user (or group) you are configuring this
custom dashboard layout for.
Click Next.
Note: You can configure a custom dashboard for any admin user or for the admin group or you can
reconfigure the def aul t dashboard.
The Status:Dashboard screen is the f i rst screen display ed when admin users (other than root) log
into the console manager. If you log in as “John,” and John is member of the admin group and
there is a dashboard layout configured for John, then you will see the dashboard for John upon
log-in and each time you cl i ck o n t he Status:Dashboard menu item.
If there is no dashbo ard l ayout configured for John, but t here is an admin group das hboard
configured, then you will see the admin group dashboard instead. If there is no u ser dashboard or
admin group dashbo ard configured, then you will see the default dashboard.
The root user does not have its own dashboard.
Use the above config urat i on options to enable a dmin use rs to setup their ow n custom
dashboards.
The Dashboard displays six widgets. These widgets include each of the Status screens (alerts, devices,
ports ups, rpc, and environmental status) and a custom script screen. The admin user can configure
which of these widget is to be displayed where:
Go to the Dashboard layout panel and select which widget is to be displayed in each of the six
display locations (widget1 …6).
Click Apply.

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