
Using the Web Component Tutorial 33
How to Use this Tutorial
How to Use this Tutorial
This tutorial will help you to learn how to use the vFoglight Configuration area to create
custom views that present collected data in a way that makes the most sense to you. It is
aimed at users who want to provide their clients with a specially-tailored set of views to
augment the default views.
The vFoglight default views are organized around the concept of services and can be
modified easily to suit any organization’s perception of its data interrelationships. There
may be situations that require special views—ones that demand more than the types of
reorganization afforded by vFoglight’s top-level edit mechanism. In this case, it
becomes necessary to work with the Web Component Framework, which was used to
build the UI for vFoglight. This tutorial serves as a starting place for learning how to use
the Web Component Reference, which describes all the components, renderers, and
other elements in the Web Component Framework.
You begin by creating a very simple view, called a dashboard, that contains a table
whose rows are all the hosts in your monitored space. From there, other examples
illustrate how most common services in your monitored space can be reconfigured to
suit your special circumstances.
The first part of the tutorial contains a discussion of the basic operations, such as
creating a view that presents some static data. Further examples illustrate more complex
objectives, such as creating a page that updates itself on the basis of a selection made in
a drop-down list on the page itself.
New users—those unfamiliar with vFoglight —should complete the first exercise to
familiarize themselves with the vFoglight user interface. Once you are familiar with the
various editing pages and dialogs, you can tackle the more complex examples.
Printing the Tutorial
To print topics in this tutorial, click the print icon on the browser’s menu bar.
Getting More Help
While this tutorial shows you how to use some of vFoglight’s Web Component features,
you may have questions about additional components and features. You will find
information about using all of the components in the Vizioncore Web Component
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