The
Fabric Manager GUI provides a pin board at
the right side of the main window (see the following figure) to monitor cards
of interest. Click the pin button
on a card’s title bar to make it instantly visible on
the pin board, which allows you to monitor performance metrics while exploring
other parts of the system. For example, the congestion trend card can be pinned
to the pin board and it remains visible even when looking at the performance of
a specific port. To remove cards from the pin board, click the
button.
The Event Summary is the default pin card that shows the summary of
events in a defined time window; it cannot be unpinned. Clicking the Event
Summary card toggles the event panel at the bottom of the main window. Below it
are user pin cards that are created by clicking the pin button
on a card's title bar. This board holds a maximum of
eight pin cards. Each pin card is resizable by dragging the bottom edge. The
following table summarizes the available operations on a pin card.
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displays information about this pin card, such as data type, data source, etc. |
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moves this pin card up |
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moves this pin card down |
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unpins this pin card |
The previous figure shows the default pin card displaying the summary of events in a defined time window by severity levels. Clicking on this card toggles the event table between visible and invisible states. By default, the Event Table is visible when the Home Page is selected and invisible when other pages are selected.