Importing a Capacity Manager Template

Selecting the Import Capacity Manager Template from the Manage Charts tab’s Quick Links section opens the Create Chart dialog, allowing you to select from your saved Capacity Manager templates. When the dialog opens, use the Import capacity template drop-down listbox to select the template you would like to use for your chart.

Manage Charts Imported Template page

Use the fields on the Create Chart dialog to provide information about the chart:

• Specify the name of the chart in the Name field.

• Use the drop-down listbox in the Category field to specify the category in which this chart will be displayed. When adding a custom chart to a custom dashboard, the chart will be displayed for selection in the Category specified.

• Use the radio buttons in the Type field to specify if the chart will be a Line chart or a Table.

• Provide a description of the chart in the Description field. The description will be displayed to the user viewing the chart (on a custom dashboard) when they click the information icon.

Click Next to continue to the Select Metrics window.

Manage Charts Imported Metrics page

The Select Metrics window displays details about the metrics that are used by the template. When you’ve reviewed the metrics, click Next to continue to the Set Options window.

Manage Charts Imported Options page

Use the fields on the Set Options window to specify display options for your chart:

• Use the Auto Refresh field to specify the number of minutes between chart updates - choose a value from 1 to 999. The default auto refresh rate is 2 minutes.

• Use the fields in the Data extrapolation box to specify the time period covered by the chart. You can either:

  • click the Historical days and extrapolated days label and:

    • specify the number of days of historical data that should be charted in the Historical field.

    • specify the number of projected days that should be charted in the Extrapolated field.

  • or, click the Historical days and threshold label and:

    • provide the number of days of historical data that should be charted in the Historical field.

    • use the threshold selection fields to specify the threshold value at which the chart will end.

When you’ve completed the Set Options window, click Next to continue.

Manage Charts Imported Permission page

After making any required modifications to the chart definition, click Finish to save your edits. PEM will open a popup, confirming that the edits have been saved:

Manage Charts Completed page

Exporting or Importing a Chart

From PEM 8.3 onwards, you can export or import the charts to another PEM Server.

• To Export the Chart, select any chart from the Charts tab and then select the Export icon in the upper-right corner of the table. Select Save File option and then select ok, it will generate the JSON file.

Manage Charts - Export

• To Import the Chart, go to the Charts tab and then select the Import icon in the upper-right corner.

Manage Charts - Import

• Click on the Browse button to select the JSON file with the code to be imported and then click Import.

Manage Charts - Import Browse

• After selecting the file to import, you can select the following checkboxes:

  • skip exiting - If you select this checkbox then it will skip the chart if it already exists.

  • skip existing dependent probe - The charts are dependent on probes. If you select this checkbox then it will skip the dependent probe if it already exists.

• If both the checkboxes are selected and the chart already exists, then it skips importing the chart with below message:

Manage Charts - Skip both

• If the skip existing checkbox is not selected and skip dependent probe is selected and the chart already exists, then it will import the chart successfully as below:

Manage Charts - Skip dependent probe

If both the checkboxes are not selected and the chart does not exist, then it will successfully import the chart as below:

Manage Charts - Import Successful

Deleting an Chart

To delete an chart, select the template name in the charts table, and click the `Delete icon (located to the upper-right corner of the table). The alert history will persist for the length of time specified on the History Retention field in the template definition.