Scenario

Using WebSphere® Portal administration, you can create dashboards and views and perform several other tasks to administer those dashboards and views.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple dashboard using WebSphere Business Monitor. The tutorial will help you to become familiar with copying concrete portlets and adding them to a portal page (a dashboard). You will create a dashboard, add views, and assign access to John Adams, the operations manager in ABC organization (a book and stationary retailer) to view and edit the dashboard view.

John Adams wants to monitor the Order Processing process. He wants to view the running instances through the process diagram and to know the status and values of some of the process key performance indicators (KPIs). Because he wants to be notified about special situations, he has asked the administrator to configure some alerts on special situations. When those situations occur, he wants to receive those alerts on his own dashboard.

The administrator (you) will create for John Adams a label page Business Performance Dashboard and inside it you will create the Order Processing portal page (dashboard). Then you will copy the concrete portlets Alerts and Process Diagrams, add them to the Order Processing dashboard, and add an existing view, Order Processing KPIs to the dashboard, as well. Then you will assign the appropriate access for John Adams to view or edit his dashboard.

Next topic: Copying portlets


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