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The Dashboard tab allows users to receive real-time system information. The dashboard consists of tabs, which include widgets. Each tab can have a different layout depending on the number of widgets that need to be rendered.

To add a new tab, click the Add Tab button.

Provide the required information and click Submit. This will generate a new tab which can contain multiple widgets.

The Column Layout drop-down list provides the following options:

• 1 Column Layout. Fill entire tab with one Widget, which is useful for rendering reports.
• 2 Column Layout. Two widgets can be displayed in two columns.
• 3 Column Layout. Three widgets can be displayed in three columns.

Once there is a tab available, a widget can be added to render data. Click the Add Widgets button to add a widget to a given tab.

The following types of widgets are available:

• URL Widget. Contains only the URL content returned, enabling link to the external applications.
• Chart Widget. Contains metrics rendering as a chart.
• Pre Defined Widget. Contains pre-defined metrics charts.
• Enable Widget. Contains portlets defined in iWay Enable that can be rendered as widgets in the iWay Business Activity Monitor console.

To configure a URL widget, provide a URL link for the widget configuration and click Submit.

The newly configured URL widget is available under the tab.

A chart widget can be configured if metric values are being captured by the application. For more information on capturing data metric values, see Application Configuration Requirements.

To configure a Chart Widget, select the available chart type to be used for display and add as many metric values for rendering as required for the widget. For example, you can compare sales by Depot, as shown in the following image.

The data is rendered in the created widget at real-time.

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To capture metric information for rendering values in Chart Widgets, an application is responsible for exposing needed values. The metric values are captured as part of the Special Registers (SREGs) in the application. For example, to render the dollar amount of transactions per partner, the application exposes a register for each partner to contain a current dollar amount for the transaction. Business Activity Monitor stores the current value of the register into its database and performs a defined aggregation to display information on the chart widget. Since not all registers used by the application are of interest to the iWay Business Activity Monitor, a set of registers which should be monitored can be configured under BAM User Defined properties. For more information on configuring the iWay Business Activity Monitor User Defined Properties, see Configuring and Using iWay Business Activity Monitor.

Below is an outline of the use case for capturing and rendering data in a chart widget. In this instance, the application is processing transactions for different countries and the user is interested in comparative sales.

• The application receives transactions and creates special registers to keep track of the current transaction dollar amount for a given country. For example, the following registers are created:
  • Seamount
  • Italy_Amount
  • Other_Amount
• As transactions are processed, a corresponding special register is updated with the current value of the transaction.
• iWay Business Activity Monitor User Defined properties have the three registers defined, identifying them as metrics of interest.
• As the data is being captured, the created metric values can be used as part of the chart widget to present the comparative country sales to the user as part of the dashboard.