Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Filtering the dashboards list

7 Dashboard overview

Filtering the dashboards list

You can filter the list of dashboards to only display dashboard you need.

1.Click the Dashboards expand navigation bar.

2.Enter your filter criteria in the Filter text box.

3.To make the filter case sensitive or insensitive, choose one of the following options from the filter icon list:

•Case sensitive — Select to make the filter case sensitive.

•Case insensitive — Select to make the filter case insensitive.

4.To allow wild cards or regular expressions, choose one of the following options from the filter icon list:

•Use wildcards — Select to use wildcards in the Filter text box.

•Use regular expression -- Select to use a unicode regular expression. Enter a Unicode regular expression in the Filter text box.

5.To determine how to match the filter text, choose one of the following options from the filter icon list:

•Match from start — Select to match from the start of the dashboard name.

•Match exactly — Select to match the dashboard name exactly.

•Match anywhere — Select to match text anywhere in the dashboard name.

6.To determine how to handle leaf nodes as well as parent and children nodes, choose one of the following options from the filter icon list:

•Match leaf node only — Select to only include leaf nodes in the filter.

•Hide nodes without children — Select to exclude nodes without children from the filter.

•Keep the children if any of their ancestors match — Select to include children in the filter when any of their ancestors match.

7.Press Enter.

The filter results display in the Dashboards expand navigation bar. To stop the filter, click the stop filter (X) icon in the Filter text box.

Creating a user-defined dashboard

You can create a dashboard and customize it with the status widgets and performance monitors you need to monitor your network.

1.Click the Dashboards expand navigation bar.

2.Click Add.

The Add Custom Dashboard dialog box displays.

3.Enter a name and description for the dashboard.

4.Select the Copy active dashboard widgets to include all widget in the current dashboard to this dashboard.

5.Click OK.

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