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Unified Dashboard Configuration Guide
This document describes how to configure the unified dashboard center program on your solution manager.
1. IMPORT AND ACTIVATE THE DASHBOARD PROGRAM
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Execute transaction
SICF
Activate the node
/sap/dashboard
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3. CREATE A DASHBOARD
In this step you can create or customize a dashboard base on your monitoring/reporting requirement.
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Afterwards you
should see the
gadgets in unified
dashboard with
exactly the same data
from BPA panels
Note: Unified
Dashboard time
range will NOT apply
to BPA panels, it will
use the configured
time range per BPA
panel setup.
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4. AUTHORIZATION CONTROL
You may want to restrict access to dashboard, eg, allow only a few users to edit the dashboards etc.
In the dashboard program there are three groups of users for different responsibilities:
ADMIN: setup providers, mass maintenance of dashboards, change configurations, assign user groups
EDITOR: edit dashboards
VIEWER: view dashboard
In addition an ADMIN can set a dashboard to READONLY to prevent further changes from EDITOR.
To assign users or set read only flag:
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To lock a dashboard:
Navigate to manage
dashboard and select the
Readonly flag
After that the dashboard
will be shown as Readonly
for editors.
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5. ANONYMOUS ACCESS
You may want to provide anonymous access URL to the dashboard. For example to distribute the dashboard to
large group of end-users and allow them review the dashboards on iphone/ipads.
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Note: to disable anonymous access you can simply lock the dashboard user, or deactivate the
/sap/ac SICF node.
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