Working with the Custom Views page
NetIM supports custom views that allow users to create private or public templates and then associate them with a rule set for viewing objects on the Home page or an Object page on the At a Glance tab.
The best practice when working with Custom View templates is as follows:
From the Custom Views page
1. Decide where you want the Custom Template to appear: the Home page or the At a Glance tab of an Object page.
2. Create a Custom Template.
3. Create and associate a Custom Template Rule with the Custom Template.
4. On the Home page or At a Glance tab of the Object page of interest, create a Custom View by applying the Custom Template and adding panels.
From the Home page or Object Page At a Glance tab
1. Edit the Custom View by adding or modifying panels.
2. Save the Custom View to the Custom Views page.
3. On the Custom Views page create a Custom View Template Rule and associate it with the new template.
Template rules are powerful in that they allow you to granularly control when a template will be used.
Templates can be made default meaning they will override the system-defined templates. Custom View Templates and Template Rules can be global or user specific. Global means they are available to all users.
The admin is the only user role that can create and edit global templates and rules.
Template views and rules created by a user are specific to the user who created them. If an admin role edits a user’s template or template rule to be global then it will belong to the admin and the original user who created it will no longer have edit privileges to the template view or rule.
If you create a Custom View on the Home page or an Object page, the custom view is written to the Custom Views page as a template. For more information, see
Working with Custom Views.
To create, edit, or delete a Custom View template and rule from the Custom Views page
1. Log in to the UI as a user with write privileges.
2. Choose Configure > All Settings > Organize > Custom Views.
3. Create a template by clicking the +Add icon in the Custom View Templates frame.
4. Provide the following information and then click Submit to create the template:
– Template Name
– Template Description
– Whether or not you want the template to be available to all users
5. To create a template rule to associate with the custom template, click the +Add icon in the Custom View Template Rules frame.
Custom View Template rules associate a specific template with one or more elements within the application, such that the selected template will be automatically displayed for that element when the At a Glance view for that element is loaded.
6. Provide the following information and then click Submit to create the template rule:
– Whether the rule should be Enabled (default) or disabled.
– Rule Name
– Whether or not you want the rule to be available to all users
– Which custom view template you want to associate with the rule
– Object types to associate with the rule
If you select Network (Home page), the remaining choices are grayed out.
– If you want the rule to include IP SLA tests, and if so which ones
– Group/Sites to which the rule applies
– Object Attributes
– Match Expression
– Whether the Match Expression should be a Regular Expression or a Negative Match
Template rules use an attribute of an object and associated matching criteria to control when a template should be used to display the data of a certain object.
7. Navigate to the Home page or the At a Glance tab of the Object page of interest.
8. Apply the custom template and create a custom view by adding the appropriate panels as explained in
Working with Custom Views.
9. (Optional) Edit or delete a template or a template rule by clicking the pencil and X icons in the Actions column.
For more information about customizing views on the Home and Object pages and applying custom templates, see
Working with Custom Views.