Dell Vizioncore Web Component Guide
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Web Component Guide
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Web Component Guide
March 2009
Version 5.2.4
Table of Contents
Introduction to this Guide...................................................................................................................................7
About vFoglight ................................................................................................................................................................ 8
About this Guide............................................................................................................................................................... 8
vFoglight Documentation Suite ........................................................................................................................................ 9
Core Documentation Set....................................................................................................................................... 10
Cartridge Documentation Sets .............................................................................................................................. 10
Feedback on the Documentation........................................................................................................................... 11
Text Conventions........................................................................................................................................................... 11
About Vizioncore Inc. ..................................................................................................................................................... 12
Contacting Dell............................................................................................................................................................... 14
Introducing the Web Component Framework.................................................................................................27
Services Management with vFoglight............................................................................................................................. 28
The vFoglight Browser Interface’s Views .............................................................................................................. 28
Configuring the Default Views............................................................................................................................... 28
Overview of the Web Component Framework ............................................................................................................... 29
The User Interface.......................................................................................................................................................... 30
Anatomy of a Typical Dashboard .......................................................................................................................... 31
View Components ................................................................................................................................................. 32
Overview of Web Components.........................................................................................................................43
View Components, Containers, and Renderers............................................................................................................. 44
Common................................................................................................................................................................ 44
Containers............................................................................................................................................................. 45
Tables and Trees................................................................................................................................................... 47
Charts and Gauges ............................................................................................................................................... 47
Time Range........................................................................................................................................................... 48
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Topology................................................................................................................................................................49
Reporting ..............................................................................................................................................................49
Inputs.....................................................................................................................................................................49
Others....................................................................................................................................................................51
Renderers..............................................................................................................................................................52
The Web Component Framework....................................................................................................................55
Core Concepts................................................................................................................................................................56
Modules .................................................................................................................................................................56
Observations..........................................................................................................................................................58
Context...................................................................................................................................................................62
Parameters ............................................................................................................................................................63
On Null Values.......................................................................................................................................................63
Renderers..............................................................................................................................................................63
Default Values........................................................................................................................................................64
Data Sources, Data Types, and Data Objects.......................................................................................................64
Paths......................................................................................................................................................................65
Using the Web Component Framework..........................................................................................................................66
The Web Component Framework Editor ...............................................................................................................66
An Example Page..................................................................................................................................................68
Web Component Framework in vFoglight..............................................................................................................69
Managing Dashboards...................................................................................... ..............................................................69
Definitions Panes............. ....... ...... .............................................................................. ...........................................70
Data and Data Sources Pages ..............................................................................................................................71
Definitions Pane............................................................. ...... ..................................................................................72
Web Component Framework Workflow .................................................................................................................74
Additional Documentation....................................................................................................... ...............................74
Customizing the UI Quickly....................................................................................................................................74
Finding Pages: Bookmarks....................................................................................................................................74
Queries............................................................................................................................................................... 75
Overview of Query Definitions........................................................................................................................................76
Creating a Query in vFoglight.........................................................................................................................................76
Query Definition Settings.......................................................................................................................................77
Conditional Types..................................................................................................................................................87
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Sequence of Evaluation .........................................................................................................................................91
Parameters in Queries....................................................................................................................................................94
Creating a Query.............................................................................................................................................................94
Configuring Views and Context......................................................................................................................101
Configuring Views.........................................................................................................................................................102
Creating a New Container View...........................................................................................................................102
Definitions Page for a View..................................................................................................................................105
Definitions Pane Settings Tabs............................................................................................................................107
General Tab .........................................................................................................................................................108
Roles....................................................................................................................................................................112
Context tab...........................................................................................................................................................112
Configuration Tab.................................................................................................................................................113
Flow tab................................................................................................................................................................114
Layout Tab................................................. ....... ...... ....... ......................................................................................121
Views Tab.............................................................................................................................................................122
Context and the Context Tab........................................................................................................................................122
Context Tab..........................................................................................................................................................123
Context Types......................................................................................................................................................124
Additional Context................................................................................................................................................125
Dynamic Context................................................................................................... ...... .........................................126
Flow Context ........................................................................................................................................................127
Runtime Values................................................................................................................................................129
Configurable Properties and Runtime Values...............................................................................................................130
Simple Types........................................................................................................................................................130
Runtime Value Types...........................................................................................................................................131
Details of each Runtime Value.............................................................................................................................133
Additional Components ..................................................................................................................................147
Renderers .....................................................................................................................................................................148
Setting Renderers, Icons and Units in Views.......................................................................................................148
Tasks.............................................................................................................................................................................150
Icons..............................................................................................................................................................................151
Files...............................................................................................................................................................................152
Types............................................................................................................................................................................153
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Units..............................................................................................................................................................................154
Determining the Appropriate Renderer for a Runtime Value ...............................................................................154
Theme and Module Resources.....................................................................................................................................155
WCFTHEME........................................................................................................................................................156
WCFMODULE .....................................................................................................................................................156
WCFMODULETHEME.........................................................................................................................................156
Printing..........................................................................................................................................................................156
Web Browser Printing..........................................................................................................................................157
PDF Generation...................................................................................................................................................157
Reports ................................................................................................................................................................158
Remote Access to Views..............................................................................................................................................160
Portlet...................................................................................................................................................................160
Google Gadget.....................................................................................................................................................161
SharePoint Web Part...........................................................................................................................................162
Index................................................................................................................................................................. 163
Introduction to this Guide
This chapter provides information about what is contained in the vFoglight Web
Component Guide. It also provides information about the vFoglight documentation suite
and Vizioncore.
This chapter contains the following sections:
About vFoglight..............................................................................................................................8
About this Guide............................................................................................................................8
vFoglight Documentation Suite......................................................................................................9
Text Conventions.........................................................................................................................11
About Vizioncore Inc....................................................................................................................12
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About vFoglight
vFoglight helps IT organizations understand the virtual infrastructure by managing the
relationships and interaction between all the components in the environment, includ ing
data centers, data stores, clusters, resource pools, hosts and virtual machines. With
vFoglight, administrators can quickly determine the root-cause of an incident or
problem, track virtual machine (VM) movements and understand their impact, and
identify contention for resources between virtual machines.
About this Guide
This Web Component Guide provides information about the vFoglight command-l ine
interface. You can use vFoglight commands to interface with different components of
your monitoring environment instead of the browser interface.
This guide is intended for vFoglight System Administrators who want to use the
vFoglight commands.
The Web Component Guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, About the Command-Line Interface—Explains the command-line
syntax, lists vFoglight commands and introduces the command-line interface using a
getting started approach. Read this chapter to get an overview of vFoglight commands
and how to get started.
Chapter 2, Managing the vFoglight Management Server—Describes the commands
that allow you to perform server-related operations through the command-line interface
and provides detailed instructions on how to get started with those commands. It
provides reference information on server-related commands along with usage examples.
Use the server-related commands to perform a variety of tasks such as starting or
stopping the vFoglight Management Server, upgrading the database, or managing
encryption keys.
Chapter 3, Managing the vFoglight Agent Manager—Describes the commands that
allow you to access the vFoglight Agent Manager through the command-line interface
along with instructions on how to configure your environment to obtain access to the
commands that allow you to start or stop the vFoglight Agent Manager, display version
information, or manage JVM options. Use this chapter to find reference information on
the commands for managing the vFoglight Agent Manager along with usage examples.
Chapter 4, Managing Agents, Cartridges and Metrics—Provides information about
the fglcmd interface that contains commands for managing common vFoglight entities
such as agents, cartridges and metrics. It also explains the fglcmd syntax and contains
additional getting started instructions that show you how to configure your
environment. Use this chapter to find reference information about the fglcmd
commands and usage examples.
Appendix A, vFoglight Client Commands—Describes the commands that allow you
to access the vFoglight Client through the command-line interface along with
instructions on how to configure your environment to obtain access to the commands
that allow you to start or stop the vFoglight Client display version information, or
manage JVM options. Use this chapter to find reference information on the commands
for managing the vFoglight Client along with usage examples.
vFoglight Documentation Suite
The vFoglight documentation suite is made up of the core documentation set, plus the
documentation set for each vFoglight cartridge that you deploy. Documentation is
provided in a combination of online help, PDF and HTML.
•
Online Help: You can open the online help by selecting the Help tab from
vFoglight’s action panel.
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vFoglight Documentation Suite
PDF: The Getting Started Guide, What’s New Guide, System Requirements and
•
Platform Support Guide, Installation and Setup Guide set, Administration and
Configuration Guide, vFoglight User Guide, Command-Line Reference Guide,
Web Component Guide, and Web Component Tutorial, are provided as PDF files.
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•
Core Documentation Set
The core documentation set consists of the following files:
• Release Notes (HTML)
• Getting Started Guide (PDF )
• What’s New Guide (PDF)
• System Requirements and Platform Support Guide (PDF)
• Installation and Setup Guide set (all in PDF format):
• Administration and Configuration Guide (PDF and online help)
• vFoglight User Guide (PDF and online help)
• Advanced Configuration Guide set
The PDF guides are included in the zip file downloaded from Vizioncore.
Adobe® Reader® is required.
HTML: Release Notes are provided in HTML.
• Installation and Setup Guide—Installing on Windows with an Embedded
MySQL Database
• Installation and Setup Guide—Installing on Windows with an External
MySQL Database
• Installation and Setup Guide—Installing on Windows with an External Oracle
Database
• Command-Line Reference Guide (PDF and online help)
• Web Component Guide (PDF and online help)
• Web Component Tutorial (PDF and online help)
• Web Component Reference (online help)
Cartridge Documentation Sets
When you deploy a cartridge, the documentation set for the cartridge is installed. The
online help for the cartridge is integrated automatically with the core vFoglight help.
When you open the help, the name of the cartridge is displayed in a top level entry
within the table of contents.
Some cartridges include additional PDF guides, which may be one or more of the
following: a Getting Started Guide, an Installation Guide, a User Guide, and a
Reference Guide.
Feedback on the Documentation
We are interested in receiving feedback from you about our documentation. For
example, did you notice any errors in the documentation? Were any features
undocumented? Do you have any suggestions on how we can improve the
documentation? All comments are welcome. Please submit your feedback to the
following email address:
info@vizioncore.com
Please do not submit Technical Support related issues to this email address.
Text Conventions
The following table summarizes how text styles are used in this guide:
Introduction to this Guide 11
Text Conventions
Convention Description
Code
Variables
Interface Bold text is used for interface options that you select (such as
Files, components,
and documents
Monospace text represents code, code objects, and commandline input. This includes:
• Java language source code and examples of file contents
• Classes, objects, methods, properties, constants, and events
• HTML documents, tags, and attributes
Monospace-plus-italic text represents variable code or
command-line objects that are replaced by an actual value or
parameter.
menu items) as well as keyboard commands.
Italic text is used to highlight the following items:
• Pathnames, file names, and programs
• The names of other documents referenced in this guide
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About Vizioncore Inc.
Vizioncore was formed in July 2002 as a consulting and software-development
company with the mission to create easy-to-use software solutions that performed
reliable and repeatable automation of datacenter functions specifically for the Citrix
platform. A main corporate goal was to enable business partners to offer solutions that
targeted real-world IT issues and provided the best possible installation and automation
for their clients' systems.
Vizioncore's solutions have proved successful in organizations from small to mid-sized
businesses to large enterprises, in a wide variety of vertical industries, including
Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and High Tech.
Vizioncore, Inc. can be found in offices around the globe and at www.vizioncore.com.
Introduction to this Guide 13
About Vizioncore Inc.
Contacting Dell
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Web Address
E-Mail Address
Technical Support., Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-Mail Address
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Technical Support
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Dimension™, Dell Inspirion™, Dell
Dell
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Web Address
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support.ap.dell.com
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E-Mail Address
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Preferred Accounts/Corporate Customer
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Switchboard
Web Address
E-Mail Address
Technical Support., Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-Mail Address
Technical Support., Customer Service, Sales
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General Support
General Support Fax
Customer Service
Corporate Sales
Fax
Switchboard
Web Address
E-Mail Address
Technical Support., Customer Service, Sales
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Customer Service and Tech Support
Technical Support Fax
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1-800-534-3142
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toll-free:1-800-387-5757
toll-free:1-800-847-4096
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Government
Printers, Projectors, Televisions, Handheld,
1-877-335-5767
Digital
Jukebox, and Wireless Sales
Home and Home Office Sales
Small Business
Medium/Large Business, Government
toll-free:1-800-999-3355
toll-free:1-800-387-5752
toll-free:1-800-387-5755
1 866 440 3355
Spare Parts and Extended Service
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Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
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1-877-262-5415
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E-Mail Address
Sales and Customer Support
Technical Support Web Address
Technical Support E-Mail Address
Customer Service E-Mail Address
Technical Support Fax
Technical Support – Dimension and Inspiron
Technical Support – OptiPlex, Lattitude and Dell
Precision
Technical Support – Servers and Storage
Technical Support – Projectors, PDAs, Switches,
Routers, etc
Technical Support – Printers
Customer Service
Customer Service Fax
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Large Corporate Accounts South
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E-Mail Address
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Technical Support
Customer Service
Fax
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Switchboard
Web Address
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Switchboard – Relational
Switchboard Fax – Relational
Switchboard – Home/Small Business
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Web Address
E-Mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-Mail Address
Technical Support
Customer Service
Switchboard
Sales under 500 employees
Fax
Sales over 500 employees
Fax
Web Address
Home and Small Business
Technical Support
Customer Service
Switchboard
Switchboard (calls from outside of France)
Sales
Fax
Fax (calls from outside of France)
Corporate
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Customer Service
Switchboard
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Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support
Home/Small Business Customer Service
Global Segment Customer Service
Preferred Accounts Customer Service
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Web Address
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Gold Service Switchboard
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Fax
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Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
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800-6132
support@euro.dell.com
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E-Mail Address
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Technical Support - Dimension and Inspiron
Technical Support - OptiPlex, Latitude, and Dell
Precision
Technical Support - Servers and Storage
Technical Support - Projectors, PDAs, Switches,
Routers, etc .
Customer Service
Large Corporate Accounts
Global Customer Programs
Medium Business Division
Home and Small Business Division
Dell Support Website
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1-800-999-0136
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toll-free: 1-877-270-4609
support.ap.dell.com
support.dell.com.cn/email
00852-2969 3188
00852-2969 3191
00852-2969 3196
00852-3416 0906
00852-3416 0910
00852-3416 0907
00852-3416 0908
00852-3416 0912
00852-2969 3105
support.ap.dell.com
india_support_desktop@dell.com
india_support_notebook@dell.com
080-25068032 or 080-25068034 or
your city STD code + 60003355 or
toll-free: 1-800-425-8045
Server Support
E-mail Address
Phone Numbers
Gold Support Only
E-mail Address
Phone Numbers
Customer Service
Home and Small Business
Large Corporate Accounts
Sales
Large Corporate Accounts
Home and Small Business
india_support_Server@dell.com
080-25068032 or 080-25068034 or
your city STD code + 60003355 or
toll-free: 1-800-425-8045
eec_ap@dell.com
080-25068033 or your city STD code +
60003355 or
toll-free: 1-800-425-9045
India_care_HSB@dell.com
toll-free : 1800-4254051
India_care_REL@dell.com
toll free : 1800-4252067
1600 33 8044
1600 33 8046
Ireland (Cherrywood)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 353
City Code: 1
Italy (Milan)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 39
City Code: 02
Jamaica
Web Address
Technical Support
E-mail Address
Business computers
Home computers
At Home Support
Sales
Home
Small Business
Medium Business
Large Business
E-mail Address
Customer Service
Home and Small Business
Business (greater than 200 employees)
General
Fax/Sales fax
Switchboard
U.K. Customer Service (dealing with U.K.only)
Corporate Customer Service (dial within U.K.
only)
U.K. Sales (dial within U.K. only)
Web Address
Home and Small Business
Technical Support
Customer Service
Fax
Switchboard
Corporate
Technical Support
Customer Service
Fax
Switchboard
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
(dial from within Jamaica only)
Support.euro.dell.com
dell_direct_support@dell.com
1850 543 543
1850 543 543
1850 200 889
1850 333 200
1850 664 656
1850 200 646
1850 200 646
Dell_IRL_Outlet@dell.com
204 4014
1850 200 982
204 0103
204 4444
0870 906 0010
0870 907 4499
0870 907 4000
Support.euro.dell.com
02 577 826 90
02 696 821 14
02 696 821 13
02 696 821 12
02 577 826 90
02 577 825 55
02 575 035 30
02 577 821
la-techsupport@dell.com
1-800-440-920
Japan (Kawasaki)
International Access
Code: 001
Country Code: 81
City Code: 44
Korea (Seoul)
International Access
Code: 001
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City Code: 2
Latin America
Luxemborg
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 352
Macao
Country Code: 83
Web Address
Technical Support - Dimension and Inspiron
Technical Support outside of Japan - Dimension
and Inspiron
Technical Support - Dell Precision, OptiPlex, and
Latitude
Technical Support outside of Japan - Dell
Precision, OptiPlex, and Latitude
Technical Support - Dell PowerApp™, Dell
PowerEdge™, Dell PowerConnect™, and Dell
PowerVault™,
Technical Support outside of Japan - PowerApp,
PowerEdge, PowerConnect, and PowerVault
Technical Support - Projectors, PDAs, Printers,
Routers
Technical Support outside of Japan - Projectors,
PDAs, Printers, Routers
Faxbox Service
24-Hour Automated Order Status Service
Customer Service
Business Sales Division - up to 400 employees
Preferred Accounts Division Sales - over 400
employees
Public Sales - government agencies, educational
institutions, and medical institutions
Global Segment Japan
Individual User
Individual User Online Sales
Individual User Real Site Sales
Switchboard
Web Address
Technical Support, Customer Service
T echnical Support - Dimension, PDA, Electronics,
and Accessories
Sales
Fax
Switchboard
Customer Technical Support (Austin, Texas,
U.S.A.)
Customer Service (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)
Fax (Technical Support and Customer Service)
(Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)
Sales (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)
SalesFax (Austin, Texas, U.S.A.)
Web Address
Support
Home/Small Business Sales
Corporate Sales
Customer Service
Fax
Technical Support
Customer Service (Xiamen, China)
Transaction Sales (Xiamen, China)
support.jp.dell.com
toll-free: 0120-198-26
81-44-520-1435
toll-free: 0120-198-433
81-44-556-3894
toll-free: 0120-198-498
81-44-556-4162
toll-free: 0120-981-690
81-44-556-3468
044-556-3490
044-556-3801
044-556-4240
044-556-1465
044-556-3433
044-556-5963
044-556-3469
044-556-1657
044-556-2203
044-556-4649
044-556-4300
Support.ap.dell.com
toll-free: 080-200-3800
toll-free: 080-200-3801
toll-free: 080-200-3600
2194-6202
2194-6000
512 728-4093
512 728-3619
512 728-3883
512 728-4397
512 728-4600 or 512 728-3772
Support.euro.dell.com
3420808075
+32 (0)2 713 15 96
26 25 77 81
+32 (0)2 481 91 19
26 25 77 82
toll-free: 0800 105
34 160 910
29 693 115
Malaysia (Penang)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 60
City Code: 4
Mexico
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 52
Montserrat
Netherlands
Antilles
Netherlands
(Amsterdam)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 31
City Code: 20
New Zealand
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 64
Nicaragua
Norway (Lysaker)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 47
Panama
Peru
Web Address
Technical Support - Dell Precision, OptiPlex, and
Latitude
Technical Support - Dimension, Inspiron, and
Electronics and Accessories
Technical Support - PowerApp, PowerEdge,
PowerConnect, and PowerVault
Customer Service
Transaction Sales
Corporate Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Customer Technical Support
Sales
Customer Service
Main
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
E-mail Address
Web Address
Technical Support
Technical Support Fax
Home/Small Business Customer Service
Relational Customer Service
Home/Small Business Sales
Relational Sales
Home/Small Business Sales Fax
Relational Sales Fax
Switchboard
Switchboard Fax
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
Technical Support
Relational Customer Service
Home/Small Business Customer Service
Switchboard
Fax Switchboard
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Support.ap.dell.com
toll-free: 1800 880 193
toll-free: 1800 881 306
toll-free: 1800 881 386
toll-free: 1800 881 306 (option 6)
toll-free: 1800 888 202
toll-free: 1800 888 213
www.dell.com/mx
la‐techsupport@dell.com
001-877-384-8979 or 001-877-269-3383
50-81-8800 or 01-800-888-3355
001-877-384-8979 or 001-877-269-3383
50-81-8800 or 01-800-888-3355
la‐techsupport@dell.com
Toll-free: 1-866-278-6822
la‐techsupport@dell.com
support.euro.dell.com
020 674 45 00
020 674 47 66
020 674 42 00
020 674 43 25
020 674 55 00
020 674 50 00
020 674 47 75
020 674 47 50
020 674 50 00
020 674 47 50
Support.ap.dell.com
Support.ap.dell.com/contactus
0800 441 567
www.dell.com/ni
la‐techsupport@dell.com
001-800-220-1377
Support.euro.dell.com
671 16882
671 17575
231 62298
671 16800
671 16865
www.dell.com/pa
la‐techsupport@dell.com
011-800-507-1264
www.dell.com/pe
la‐techsupport@dell.com
0800-50-669
Poland (Warsaw)
International Access
Code: 011
Country Code: 48
City Code: 22
Portugal
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 351
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
Singapore
International Access
Code: 005
Country Code: 65
Slovakia (Prague)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 421
South Africa
(Johannesburg)
International Access
Code: 09/091
Country Code: 27
City Code: 11
Web Address
E-mail Address
Customer Service Phone
Customer Service
Sales
Customer Service Fax
Reception Desk Fax
Switchboard
Web Address
Technical Support
Customer Service
Sales
Fax
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
NOTE: The phone numbers in this section should
be called from within Singapore or Malaysia only.
Web Address
Technical Support - Dimension, Inspiron, and
Electronics and Accessories
Technical Support - OptiPlex, Latitude,
and Dell Precision
Technical Support - PowerApp, PowerEdge,
PowerConnect, and PowerVault
Customer Service
Transaction Sales
Corporate Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support
Customer Service
Fax
Tech Fax
Switchboard (Sales)
Web Address
E-mail Address
Gold Queue
Technical Support
Customer Service
Sales
support.euro.dell.com
pl_support_tech@dell.com
57 95 700
57 95 999
57 95 999
57 95 806
57 95 998
57 95 999
Support.euro.dell.com
707200149
800 300 413
800-300-410 or 800-300 -411 or
800-300-412 or 21-422-07-10
21-424-01-12
www.dell.com/pr
la‐techsupport@dell.com
1-877-537-3355
www.dell.com/kn
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll-free: 1-866-540-3355
www.dell.com/lc
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll-free: 1-866-464-4352
www.dell.com/vc
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll-free: 1-866-464-4353
support.ap.dell.com
toll-free: 1 800 394 7430
toll-free: 1 800 394 7488
toll-free: 1 800 394 7478
toll-free: 1 800 394 7430 (option 6)
toll-free: 1 800 394 7412
toll-free: 1 800 394 7419
support.euro.dell.com
czech_dell@dell.com
02 5441 5727
420 22537 2707
02 5441 8328
02 5441 8328
02 5441 8328
02 5441 7585
support.euro.dell.com
dell_za_suppor@dell.com
011 709 7713
011 709 7710
011 709 7707
011 709 7700
Spain (Madrid)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 34
City Code: 91
Sweden (Upplands
Vasby)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 46
City Code: 8
Switzerland (Geneva)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 41
City Code: 22
Taiwan
International Access
Code: 002
Country Code: 886
Thailand
International Access
Code: 001
Country Code: 66
Trinidad/Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Web Address
Home and Small Business
Technical Support
Customer Service
Sales
Switchboard
Fax
Corporate
Technical Support
Customer Service
Switchboard
Fax
Web Address
Technical Support
Relational Customer Service
Home/Small Business Customer Service
Employee Purchase Program (EPP) Support
Technical Support Fax
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support – Home and Small Business
Technical Support – Corporate
Customer Service – Home and Small Business
Customer Service – Corporate
Fax
Switchboard
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support - OptiPlex, Latitude, Inspiron,
Dimension, and Electronics and Accessories
Technical Support - Servers and Storage
Customer Service
Transaction Sales
Corporate Sales
Web Address
Technical Support (OptiPlex, Latitude, and Dell
Precision)
Technical Support (PowerApp, PowerEdge,
PowerConnect, and PowerVault)
Customer Service
Corporate Sales
Transaction Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Support.euro.com
902 100 130
902 118 540
902 118 541
902 118 541
902 118 539
902 100 130
902 115 236
91 722 92 00
91 722 95 83
support.euro.dell.com
08 590 05 199
08 590 05 642
08 587 70 527
020 140 14 44
08 590 05 594
Support.euro.dell.com
Tech_support_central_Europe@dell.com
0844 811 411
0844 822 844
0848 802 202
0848 821 721
022 799 01 90
022 799 01 01
support.ap.dell.com
support.dell.com.cn/email
toll-free: 0080 186 1011
toll-free: 0080 160 1256
toll-free: 0080 160 1250 (option 5)
toll-free: 0080 165 1228
toll-free: 0080 165 1227
Support.ap.dell.com
toll-free: 1800 0060 07
toll-free: 1800 0600 09
toll-free: 1800 006 007 (option 7)
toll-free: 1800 006 009
toll-free: 1800 006 006
www.dell.com/tt
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll-free: 1-888-799-5908
www.dell.com/tc
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll-free: 1-877-441-4735
U.K.(Bracknell)
International Access
Code: 00
Country Code: 44
City Code: 1344
Uruguay
U.S.A. (Austin, Texas)
International Access
Code: 011
Country Code: 1
Web Address
E-mail Address
Customer Service Website
Sales
Home and Small Business Sales
Corporate/Public Sector Sales
Customer Service
Home and Small Business
Corporate
Preferred Accounts (500-5000 employees)
Global Accounts
Central Government
Local Government & Education
Health
Technical Support
Corporate/Preferred Accounts/PCA (1000+
employees)
Other Dell Products
General
Home and Small Business Fax
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Automated Order-Status Service
AutoTech (portable and desktop computers)
Hardware and Warranty Support (Dell TV,
Printers, and Projectors ) for Relationship
customers
Consumer (Home and Home Office) Support for
Dell products
Customer Service
Employee Purchase Program (EPP) Customers
Financial Services Web Address
Financial Services (lease/loans)
Financial Services (Dell Preferred Accounts
[DPA])
Business
Customer Service
Employee Purchase Program (EPP)
Customer s Support for printers, projectors, PDAs,
and MP3 players
Public (government, education, and healthcare)
Customer Service and Support
Employee Purchase Program (EPP) Customers
Dell Sales
Dell Outlet Store (Dell refurbished computers)
Software and Peripherals Sales
Spare Parts Sales
Extended Service and Warranty Sales
Fax
Dell Services for the Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, or
Speech-Impaired
upport.euro.dell.com
dell_direct_support@dell.com
support.euro.dell.com/uk/en/ECare/
form/home.asp
0870 907 4000
01344 860 456
0870 906 0010
01344 373 185
0870 906 0010
01344 373 186
01344 373 196
01344 373 199
01344 373 194
0870 908 0500
0870 353 0800
0870 907 4006
www.dell.com/uy
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll-free: 000-413-598-2521
toll-free: 1-800-433-9014
toll-free: 1-800-247-9362
toll-free: 1-877-459-7298
toll-free: 1-800-624-9896
toll-free: 1-800-624-9897
toll-free: 1-800-695-8133
www.dellfinancialservices.com
toll-free: 1-877-577-3355
toll-free: 1-800-283-2210
toll-free: 1-800-624-9897
toll-free: 1-800-695-8133
toll-free: 1-877-459-7298
toll-free: 1-800-456-3355
toll-free: 1-800-695-8133
toll-free: 1-800-289-3355 or
toll-free: 1-800-879-3355
toll-free: 1-888-798-7561
toll-free: 1-800-671-3355
toll-free: 1-800-357-3355
toll-free: 1-800-247-4618
toll-free: 1-800-727-8320
toll-free: 1-877-DELLTTY
(1-877-335-5889)
U.S. Virgin Islands
Venezuela
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
Web Address
E-mail Address
Technical Support, Customer Service, Sales
www.dell.com/vi
la‐techsupport@dell.com
toll‐free:1‐877‐702‐4360
www.dell.com/ve
la‐techsupport@dell.com
0800‐100‐4752
1
Introducing the Web Component Framework
The Web Component Framework (WCF) is the software that enables you to build a
browser interface and perform specific tasks such as monitoring data. By configuring
these views, you can display data in a variety of tabular and graphical formats. The
retrieved data can be filtered, sorted, and truncated. The full list of properties for each
component is given in the view pages that are accessible from the Help menu on the
browser interface. This document provides an introduction to these components and
describes the underlying mechanisms that allow them to display data retrieved from
vFoglight or other sources with the same data structure.
For a quick introduction to how dashboards are built and populated with sample views,
try the Vizioncore View Component Tutorial, which is also accessible from the Help
menu on the vFoglight browser interface.
This chapter provides information about dashboards and the components used to build
them.
The WCF is not just a tool to build a plain Web page. With it you can build pages that
update themselves, you can add drill down pages that depend on the context of the
choice made on the parent page, and add a large number of useful components to the
pages that you build. This manual describes the WCF and shows you how to understand
and use it.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Services Management with vFoglight..........................................................................................28
Overview of the Web Component Framework.............................................................................29
The User Interface.......................................................................................................................30
28 vFoglight
Web Component Guide
Services Management with vFoglight
Enterprise services management applications typically gather gigabytes of monitoring
data and then attempt to organize the data in a meaningful way. That’ s a lot of capability ,
and the volume of data being collected can be overwhelming. The views in the browser
interface attempt to organize the data into meaningful summaries, with drilldown pages
to increasingly specific information about a chosen component, such as a single host or
a particular database instance.
The top-level screens, those you see when the browser interface is first launched, have
been organized around the concept of services and have been designed to show a view
that should be useful to a broad range of users—those with typical environments. In all
likelihood your environment is not quite typical, and as you gain familiarity with the
browser interface’s views you will imagine ways that they could be improved to better
fit the way that you would like to organize and visualize your data.
The vFoglight Browser Interface’s Views
Vizioncore’s designers anticipated a user’s need to customize the browser interface, so
they included the means to allow you to access the UI’s component framework and with
it to create custom views. You can populate these views with other display components,
such as charts and tables, and connect them to data sources. It is the same data that the
vFoglight agents have been configured to collect, but now it is organized in a way that
best fits a given business model and the information needs particular to that model.
The end result is a monitoring system that organizes data in a way that mirrors the
business model. Real-time monitoring data is presented in a way that is easily viewed,
and it fosters better control of the application's availability. This also helps with service
level management. Because custom views show services in a cleaner way, a monitor can
inform application and IT managers about end-user service levels, notify stakeholders
when those service levels are violated, and assign problem resolution tasks to the
appropriate domain experts. Custom views that focus on known trouble spots can help
establish processes for quick recovery from system failure
Configuring the Default Views
vFoglight employs a configurable Web-based interface. By doing your own custom
configurations, you apply your detailed knowledge of your system to augment or
replace the out-of-the-box views vFoglight shows by default.
Introducing the Web Component Framework 29
Overview of the Web Component Framework
You can modify the existing components in the browser interface using the following
operations:
• Create a custom dasboard easily by dragging existing views or data from the
action panel to it. This is the simplest way of creating a new view.
You can add any view that is designated as a portlet, thus building up a custom
page. The data tab on the action panel presents choices from which you can drag
metric charts and position them on the page.
• In the action panel, you can adjust the width of the views place on a page by
choosing the number of columns.
• Add dashboards to My Definitions. This requires more expertise, but it allows
access to the framework, so you can define completely new views.
• Create a Report.
• Add Bookmarks.
Overview of the Web Component Framework
The Web Component Framework provides the underlying structure from which you can
build the user interface for your application. A configuration framework makes it easy
to deploy dashboards and their views into various application environments. The
components it requires for operation are accessed through an interface so that the
application that uses the Web Component Framework can provide these services from
their own infrastructure without having to use arbitrary mechanisms that are not core to
the Web Component Framework.
The Web Component Framework consists of a structure for hosting related views called
view components, and container services that host data sources. It is a superset of the
View Component collection that contains other control components, such as renderers.
It is used to build thin client interfaces for products that are primarily (but not
necessarily) in the systems management domain.
The Web Component Framework is written in Java and is capable of running in a web
container such as To mcat. It can be used on contemporary Web browsers without
requiring the use of a plug-in. It is portal-like, but is not a JSR-168 standard portal.
It supports multiple data sources. With it you can configure multiple data queries and
display this data using views. Queries are the primary mechanism used to extract data
from the W eb Component Framework data sources. A view can use more than one query
(to extract data for display), and a query can use more than one data object.
30 vFoglight
Web Component Guide
Apart from creating applications using the Web Component Framework, there are
several important considerations:
• The Dashboard interface (default views)
• Data interface (data representation, relationships in the system, ability to query
data)
• Persistence interface (data storage)
• Permissions interface (ability to set rules and privileges).
See the vFoglight core documentation set for a discussion of these topics.
The User Interface
The vFoglight User Guide describes the overall appearance of the vFoglight user
interface. This document describes the part of the interface used to define, view and edit
elements of the Web Component Framework. Other top-level trim elements contain
buttons supplied by the application. This manual concerns itself with the Definitions
area that is accessed in the right navigation panel. The Definitions area allows you to
examine and work with all the existing entities in the We b Co mponent Framework that
is used to build all the views in the vFoglight user interface.
The figure shows that you access the Definitions area by choosing Definitions under
Dashboards > Configuration in the left navigation panel.
Note The Design tab is available on any non-portal page to those whose role includes that of
dashboard designer. It shows a hierarchical list of all the views on the page. Selecting a
particular view shows information about it in the lower pane, allowing you easy access to
child views.