Auto-refresh and Rotate Display of Dashboards
Automatic refresh of dashboard view is useful in following scenarios
- Database monitoring
- Lot of database activity is stored real time in logging and statistics table. It is possible to create dashboard purely using SQL queries against these performance tables. Once the dashboard is created, you could set it on automatic refresh say every 5, 10 or 15 minutes to highlight the latest charts and server information
- Metrics on TV or huge display
- Lot of companies now a days have huge flat panel TVs installed in corridors that display real time metrics. These TV displays are fed through a live refresh of Dashboard data
InfoCaptor dashboard can be set to refresh automatically. Here are the steps below
Goto Edit -> Dashboard
Scroll to the “Refresh Rate(seconds)” property and set the desired frequency in seconds for e.g. 300 seconds = 5 minutes refresh interval
Once set Goto Run -> Start Auto Refresh
This will start the refresh every 5 minutes
How do you refresh and rotate Dashboard views
If you have multiple dashboard views and would like to rotate the views at a certain interval then follow the steps below
Click on the options button on the toolbar. Then click on the Auto-Refresh tab.
Select the check box for “Auto Refresh & Cycle Each Dashboard”
Enter the number of seconds you wish to stay on each dashboard.
Click OK and Goto Run -> Start Auto Refresh
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