Re: Setting PMWEB Dashboard

Hello Frank

Thanks for the quick suggestion.

I changed my host to fedora 24, and installed the latest PCP, including web api and grafana.

I was able to construct a new dashboard with the data I wanted.

That part works well, provided there is only a small number of archives.

However, it is not possible to save the new dashboard, most likely because the dashboards are in /usr/share/pcp/webapps/grafana/app/dashboards which is not writable. I guess there is more than one way to fix this, happy to help.

I used the Save->Dashboard JSON option and copy+pasted it as a new dot json file in /usr/share/pcp/webapps/grafana/app/dashboards.

I can now use http://pmlog.xyz:44323/grafana/index.html#/dashboard/file/replication-test.json ( http://pmlog.xyz:44323/grafana/index.html#/dashboard/file/replication-test.json ) to distribute to anyone who wants to view the graps.

Thanks for your help on this.

One final question : This dashboard has to work correctly all the time, but the target is a specific archive, like "pmlogger/pwdb1~2Eprd~2Emel/20161024~2E06~2E17". This is not much use, as the target is bound to change overnight, or when pmlogger encounters a problem, and generates a new archive.

Currently, I am running a script which creates a set of hard links to the newest archive set, and using the hard link as the taget. Softlinks do not work.

Is there a better alternative ?