How To Create a Disk Usage Dashboard for Linux

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration

Issue/Introduction

What is the appropriate way to create a disk usage dashboard  for Linux systems?

Environment

All versions of CAPM

Resolution

To quickly create a disk usage dashboard  for Linux systems you can do the following:

1. Create a new dashboard
2. Add the IM On-Demand/Multi-Metric Trend Report
3. Now edit the IM On-Demand/Multi-Metric Trend Report view

• Change "View Type" to Table per Item with Multiple Metrics
• Change "Context" to Fixed
• Add the appropriate groups
• Change "Metric Calculate Level" to by Component
• In the "Metrics to Include" choose metrics from the Partition Folder

4. Save the changes

Additional Information

See the attached dashboard.png for example output