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stevebambury
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6 months ago
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Feature request - Use CustomProperty instead of ##RESOURCENAME## or ##RESOURCEGROUP##

A new feature request to use a CustomProperty as opposed to the limited ##RESOURCENAME## or ##RESOURCEGROUP## when building dashboards and widgets.   Its been tested by Tech Support in the Lab envir...
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  • Cole_McDonald's avatar
    Cole_McDonald
    6 months ago

    I definitely have put in a feature request to move to appliesTo for the group/device delineations in dashboards… This and arbitrary threshold coloring per widget would make the dashboarding really shine from a functional standpoint.  Imagine being able to have a NOC Widget that can populate based on an appliesTo, then indicate health status of a device / group visually without having to have hard/fast alert thresholds set for that metric?

    We want to know when a I/O queue is growing, but it’s not something we need to have generate an alert, nor follow any escalations which may result in a ticket being created in our ticketing system.

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Matt_Whitney
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4 months ago

Yes the support for properties/tokens in dashboard widgets is pretty limited. Table Widgets for example would be MUCH more useful if they allowed you to filter instances using the ##DSIDESCRIPTION## token (instance description). Or even if the value could be used as part of the row name. But we are limited to ##RESOURCE## and ##INSTANCE## for the most part.

Being able to use custom properties in a table widget for display or filtering, especially something like ##DSIDESCRIPTION##, would be a huge enhancement for the dashboard feature of LM.