Focused Insights: How to build an OCC Dashboard (Part 4)

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OCC Dashboard

Operation Control Center Dashboard of SAP Focused Insights provides a direct access to key metrics stored inside SAP Solution Manager. It’s primarily intended for IT and business experts who need to build quickly detailed views for in depth analysis.

OCC Dashboard is flexible and easy to use, it offers a single web interface to administrate, configure and display your dashboard instances. Dashboard instances and gadgets can be published as a web URL.

Several data providers help to access data sources on different time periods and different resolutions. You can filter and merge various metrics on the same chart while the look and feel can easily be changed with few clicks.

In this example we’ll show how to use a renderer with dual unit and display business process analytics.

We will extend the OCC dashboard created in the previous blogs:

• Focused Insights: How to build an OCC Dashboard (Part 1)
• Focused Insights: How to build an OCC Dashboard (Part 2)
• Focused Insights: How to build an OCC Dashboard (Part 3)

• Edit the dashboard
• Edit settings of gadget number 3 (bottom left gadget, related to CPU)
• Change gadget’s title: “CPU Utilization”
• Change gadget’s renderer: “DUAL_LINE COLUMN”
• For query related to system CPU, select chart type “COLUMN” and change legend: “System”
• For query related to user CPU, select chart type “LINE” and change legend: “User”
• Apply your changes
• Save the dashboard

• Edit the dashboard
• Open the settings of gadget 4 (bottom right)
• Enter the title for the alert: “Current business process monitoring alerts”
• Select data provider “/STDF/DP_BPA” (business process analytics)
• Select renderer “BAR_CHART”
• Select panel “Current_Alerts_E2E_Solution”
• Apply changes

• Save the dashboard
• Gadget displays the current number of alerts per business process

Focused Insights (http://support.sap.com/focused-insights)

Focused solutions for SAP Solution Manager, is the extension concept for SAP Solution Manager, with the idea of helping our customers meet their particular innovation needs on an individual basis, without the need for homegrown software or partner solutions.

The goal of Focused Insights is to build and distribute powerful customer-specific dashboards in minutes using state-of-the-art user experience.

The content delivered with Focused Insights has been designed to deliver, in real time, the most relevant and valuable information to the right people. While it provides full transparency of information stored inside SAP Solution Manager, it also takes into account the best practices and experience gained during numerous custom projects, offering a set of prepackaged dashboards tailored to your needs.

SAP Focused Insights offers specialized dashboards for experts as well as management or non-technical users. Whether they address the CIO or an expert, dashboards remain consistent among each other since they rely on the same data sources mixed up and presented in different granularities or aggregation levels

Focused Insights comes with a rich content. It fully exploits the huge amount of data stored inside SAP Solution Manager. Metrics produced by the activation of a scenario, whether it is IT or business related, become immediately available to the prepackaged dashboards. Raw metrics can be grouped or combined to produce advanced metrics and high level KPIs.