Constructing the view layout with associated metrics
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In the second page of the Create View page you can:
■ Create a layout of a view by clicking and dragging metric elements.
■ Customize the view by adding, moving, or resizing charts.
■ Create elements within a display layout for single computers, or within a cell grid
for multiple computers.
■ Create one or two charts.
The scope pane of the second page contains a metric tree, which provides an
organized list of metric-related elements, such as charts and tables, based on common
metrics. Pre-defined queries, such as top ten processes, are available under selected
metrics.
All of the drag and drop actions can be performed with either a single layout or in a
cell grid, and let you specify how you want the view to be built. Figure 43 illustrates
that the metric Total IO Rate was dragged from the metric tree to the cell grid in the
results pane, and a chart was automatically created in that cell to display the metric.
That chart was then resized by clicking and dragging the panel’s edge.
Resizing is useful when working with computer views where the individual cells
might be relatively different sizes.
You can view two charts on the second page of the Create View page when creating
group views. When you create Group Views on the first page of the Create View page
and click
Next, the second page allows two cell positions on the grid to contain charts.
These cells are horizontally adjacent to each other.
You can place metrics from different packages onto the same view just as easily as
placing the same metric into the view twice. Regardless of whether you create a
group view with one or two metrics, the view to Consumers always displays as a
two-column layout. This means that when two metrics are placed onto a group view,
each computer occupies its own row.
