March | 2020 | virtual red dot

You can customize this! It’s just HTML + SVG files. A single, long HTML page with lots of JavaScript. Each infographic is an SVG file. So long you know the structure, it’s safe to modify. This tinkering is for fun. Totally unsupported! 🙂

Can you spot the 6 sections that make the up the page? Expand one of them to get a sense of the structure. After that, you’ll notice the other 5 are basically the same structure.

Can you spot the buttons and URL link? Notice the TITLE CASE is automatic, so I don’t bother with the original case 🙂 The string after **goTo** is the **dashboard unique ID**. Each dashboard is not referred by its name, so it’s safe for you rename the dashboard.

I use PowerPoint to create the infographic, then hand over to the awesome UX team 🙂 You may need some freelancer if you don’t know how to do SVG. If you do, teach me!

Bonus! Since you’ve read this far, here is an infographic for VM CPU counter. I did not include it as there is no more space 🙂

Super excited to share the hard work on the next generation VOA is here. This is a sneak preview. You can deploy on vR Ops 8.0 or the upcoming 8.1. Special thanks to John Diaz, Lusine Dashtoyan, Brandon Gordon, Vahan Tadevosyan, Artur Aghabekyan and 2 awesome developers who prefer to remain humble.

Download the files here. You’ll also find the presentation in editable format (one main point of VOA is to be customized).

Installation requiring 5 steps.

Import the super metrics. Enable them in the default policy.
Import the views
Import the dashboards
Import the reports
Import the HTML files. This needs root account.

You do not need to use the built-in admin accounts. It’s just a lot more convenient to do so. Choose to overwrite the existing views, etc. There is no need to create groups, policy or alerts.

BTW, if you want to customize the HTML, read this.