Since the baffling decision was taken to remove Screens, I no longer have the useful functionality to see all interface traffic graphs at the same time (and thus identify common spikes in utilisation). Can someone clarify how I get this back with Dashboards?
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Please tell me what kind of graph you want to display. If you just want to arrange the graphs yourself like you did on the screen, you can do it on the dashboard. Compared to the screen, the widget allows you to express more. -
With discovery rules, 4.0 and 5.0 would build up a screen of all the dynamically created graphs (specifically, in this case, bandwidth in and out). That functionality now seems to be gone. The new dashboard equivalent displays them all in a slideshow, which makes direct comparison difficult.Comment
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Far from an expert here, but thought I'd chime in...
I just experienced this 'slideshow' behavior myself building a dashboard of network interfaces. I got the 'slideshow' effect when I used the "Graph prototype" widget... With a stacked switch (96 line ports plus uplinks, virtual interfaces, vlans, etc) the slideshow effect was not much use so I changed to a widget type of "Graph."
Then (scroll down to "Data set 1") I chose the switch in "host pattern" and a few useful items in "item pattern" (bits sent, bits received, error packets in and out, and discards in and out) for a single interface.
For what it's worth, I'll probably move the errors and drops to a graph of their own as they're getting lost in the scaling of the bits in/out.
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Is that something you created on an individual host, rather than the template's discovery rule?
Far from an expert here, but thought I'd chime in...
I just experienced this 'slideshow' behavior myself building a dashboard of network interfaces. I got the 'slideshow' effect when I used the "Graph prototype" widget... With a stacked switch (96 line ports plus uplinks, virtual interfaces, vlans, etc) the slideshow effect was not much use so I changed to a widget type of "Graph."
Then (scroll down to "Data set 1") I chose the switch in "host pattern" and a few useful items in "item pattern" (bits sent, bits received, error packets in and out, and discards in and out) for a single interface.
For what it's worth, I'll probably move the errors and drops to a graph of their own as they're getting lost in the scaling of the bits in/out.
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Neither really...
The host (switch) was discovered and the "ICMP Ping" template automatically applied. I added it to my "Devices/Networking" host group (no linked templates,) added the SNMP agent and credentials and then applied the template for the switch. All the LLD rules added interfaces and graphs as appropriate for the template but none of this has anything to do with the dashboard!
I created a custom dashboard and added "GRAPH" widget (not "Graph Prototype" or "Graph (Classic),") selected the Data Set (switch device) and in "Item Pattern" I selected the interface bits in/out etc.
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