How to create a personalised dashboard (mashup)
Introduction
This document gives step-by-step instructions on how to create a personalised view (mashup) of Dashboard plots using the popular mashup tool
Netvibes
.
When you have finished working through the instructions you will have a mashup of Dashboard plots similar to
http://www.netvibes.com/dashb-mashup
Create a Netvibes account
If you do not already have an account then create a BASIC free account which is sufficient.
- EITHER: Follow the links "Get Started" > "Go basic" from the Netvibes
homepage and work through the wizard until you reach the "Sign Up" page.
OR: Go directly to the Sign Up
page.
- Enter your details and sign up.
- You will receive an "Account Activation" email from Netvibes.
- Click the link in the email to activate your account and access the default mashup tab.
- To add a new tab, click the "New Tab" link and enter a name for your new tab.
Add Dashboard plots to your mashup
Here we give instructions on adding plots from ATLAS DDM Dashboard and ATLAS Job Accounting Dashboard (Historical Views). In each case, it is assumed that you have already signed into
Netvibes
.
The same approach can be used to add plots from virtually any monitoring application. Links to many monitoring applications (not just Dashboard applications) can be found on the monitoring portals:
ADC Monitoring
for ATLAS and
CMS Monitoring
for CMS. Links to Dashboard applications for all VOs can be found from the
Dashboard home page
.
Add a plot from ATLAS DDM Dashboard to your mashup
Add a plot from ATLAS Job Accounting Dashboard (Historical Views) to your mashup
Publish your mashup
You can already access your mashup whenever you are signed into
Netvibes
. However if you wish to make it public to share with other users then you can follow the instructions below. It is assumed that you have already signed into
Netvibes
.
Further information
Netvibes has comprehensive help:
http://help.netvibes.com/
The following Savannah news posting has brief instructions for adding ATLAS DDM Dashboard plots to
Netvibes
,
PageFlakes
and HTML pages:
https://savannah.cern.ch/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1448
The following ATLAS Software & Computing Workshop presentation has a mashup example using ATLAS DDM Dashboard, see slides 16-18:
https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=80&sessionId=5&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=119170
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DavidTuckett - 30-Nov-2011