source: Extensions/Dashboards.md

# Dashboards
Create customised dashboards in LibreNMS per user. You can share dashboards with other users. You can also make a custom dashboard and
default it for all users in LibreNMS.

Example Dashboard
![Example Dashboard](/img/example-dashboard.png)

### Widgets
LibreNMS has a whole list of Widgets to select from. 

+ Alerts Widget: Displays all alert notifications.
+ Availability Map: Displays all devices with colored tiles, green up, yellow for warning (device has been restarted in last 24 hours),red   for down. You can also list all services and ignored/disabled devcies in this widget.
+ Componet Status: List all componets Ok state, Warning state, Critical state.
+ Device Summary horizontal: List device totals, up, down, ignored, disabled. Same for ports and services. 
+ Device Summary vertical: List device totals, up, down, ignored, disabled. Same for ports and services.
+ Eventlog: Displays all events with your devices and LibreNMS. 
+ External Image: can be used to show external images on your dashboard. Or images from inside LibreNMS.
+ Globe Map: Will display map of the globe.
+ Graph: Can be used to display graphs from devices. 
+ Graylog: Displays all Graylog's syslog entries.
+ Notes: use for html tags, embed links and external web pages. Or just notes in general.
+ Server Stats: Will display gauges for CPU, Memory, Storage usage. Note the device type has to be listed as "Server".
+ Syslog: Displays all syslog entries.
+ Top Devices: By Traffic, or  Uptime, or Response time, or Poller Duration, or Procssor load, or Memory Usage, or Storage Usage.
+ Top Interfaces: Lists top interfaces by traffic utilization.
+ Worldmap: displays all your devices locations. From syslocation or from override sysLocation.

List of Widgets: 
![List of Widgets][image of widgets]

[image of widgets]: /img/list-widgets.png "List of the widgets"


### Dashboard Permissions
- Private: Sets the dashabord to only the user that created the dashboard can view and edit.
- Shared Read: Sets the dashboard to allow other users to view the dashboard, but cant make changes to the dashboard.
- Shared: Allows all users to view the dashboard and make changes.

### Setting a global default dashboard

Step 1: Set the dashboard to either shared read or shared, depending on what you want the users access to change. 

Step 2: Then go to Settings -> WebUI settings -> Dashboard Settings and set the global default dashboard.

### Setting embeded webpage

Using the Notes Widget.
```html
<iframe src="your_url" frameBorder="0" width="100%" height = "100%">
  <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>
```
Note you may need to play with the width and height and also size your widget properly.
``` src="url" ``` needs to be URL to webpage your linking to.
Also some web pages may not support html embeded or iframe.
![Example embed webpage](/img/example-embed-website.png)

### How to create ports graph

In the dashboard, you want to create an interface graph select the widget called

* Graph:  then select "Port" "Bits"
![port-bits-graph](/img/port-bits-graph.png)

* Note: you can map the port by description or the alias or by port id. You will need to know this in order to map the port to the graph. 

![port-bits-graph](/img/port-bits-port.png)

### Dimension parameter replacement for Generic-image widget

When using the Generic-image widget you can provide the width and height of the widget with your request.
This will ensure that the image will fit nicely with the dimensions if the Generic-image widget.
You can add @AUTO_HEIGHT@ and @AUTO_WIDTH@ to the Image URL as parameters.

#### Examples: 
+ http://librenms.example.com/graph.php?id=333%2C444&type=multiport_bits_separate&legend=no&absolute=1&from=-14200&width=@AUTO_WIDTH@&height=@AUTO_HEIGHT@
+ http://example.com/myimage.php?size=@AUTO_WIDTH@x@AUTO_HEIGHT@
