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obtained directly from active runtime MBean instances and returned to the Monitoring Dashboard.
15.3 About the Monitoring Dashboard Interface
The Monitoring Dashboard has two main panels: the explorer panel and the view display panel, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 15–1 Monitoring Dashboard Panels
The explorer panel provides access to the following:
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View List — Set of existing built-in and custom views. It also contains controls for creating, copying, renaming, and deleting views. For details, see
Section 15.3.1, View List.
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Metric Browser — Provides a means to navigate to and select the specific MBean instance attributes whose metric values you want to display in a chart in a view.
For details, see Section 15.3.2, Metric Browser.
15.3.1 View List
To display a view, select it from the View List, shown in Figure 15–2
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Figure 15–2 Built-in and Custom Views Displayed in the View List
Views are presented in two primary categories:
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Built-in views The Built-in views are a set of predefined views of available runtime metrics for all
running WebLogic Server instances in the domain. These views surface some of the more critical runtime WebLogic Server performance metrics and serve as
examples of the Monitoring Dashboard’s view and charting capabilities.
Note the following about built-in views:
– Built-in views are dynamic. For example, if four servers are running, the set of
available built-in views and its charts are related to those four servers. If five servers are running, then the set of built-in views and its charts expands for
each additional server. In addition, if the number of running server instances changes while you are using dashboard for example, a server is started or
stopped, and you want to see the new built-in views for the current set of running server instances, refresh the view list by selecting Refresh from the
View List menu.
– Built-in views are automatically available with every WebLogic Server
installation and can be used by every user logged into Administration Console or Monitoring Dashboard.
– You cannot modify a built-in view, but you can copy it. Once copied, the view
can be modified, renamed, saved, and deleted.
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Custom views A custom view is any view created by a user. Custom views are available only to
the user who created them. Custom views are automatically persisted for the user and are in effect only for that user account and only in the current domain. Note,
however, that polled metric values that are displayed in custom views are not persisted if you close the Monitoring Dashboard window, just as they are not
persisted for built-in views either.
No custom views are available by default.
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For more information, see the following topics in Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Help:
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Work with views in the Monitoring Dashboard
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Start and stop views
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Create custom views
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Copy a view
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Delete a view
15.3.2 Metric Browser
