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To create a dashboard, you're going to go into the Show Dashboard list, you're going to right-click, and you're going to do Add. Give it a name, and click OK. You've now created the outline for your dashboard. So you now have to enter the items that you want to monitor on this dashboard. If you click on the little plus, this will let you add items. We call these widgets. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a live element, it's going to be HighCPUUsers, and I'm going to add it just for my System Academy. I'm going to come down here to Frame Settings because I want a caption on this widget. So I'm going to create the caption, I'm going to do OK, and then I'm going to click OK. And I have my first widget in my dashboard. So I'm going to add another one, again it's going to be a live, I'm going to add another HighCPU, but I'm going to add it for a different system. I'm going to add it for my system called Wisdom. Again I'm going to do my Frame Settings because I do want a caption, and click OK. And now I have two widgets in here, they're doing HighCPU jobs for both systems. I'm going to add some historical elements, so I'm going to add a Dissummary Graph. And this Dissummary Graph I'm going to add is again for my System Academy, I'm going to give it a Frame Setting. Now if I should forget to do the Frame Setting, I can always come back in and I can add it. So if you forget something or you want to change a property, you might not like what you have added, you can always come back in and you can edit any of these widgets. So here's my Frame Setting, here's my caption, click OK. If you do want to edit a widget, you just simply right-click on the widget, and you would go into Properties, and that's how you can edit a widget. You can add Monitor Graphs in here as well, so I'm going to go into a Live Element. I'm going to add a Monitor Graph, and I'm going to add this Monitor Graph over a System Group that I created. So a System Group is a number of systems that you want the same graph for. So I'm going to create a System Group, I'm going to do CPU Usage, again I'm going to do my Frame Setting. Now this one may not look like what I want it, so I'm going to do Monitor Graph for CPU, and I can change my title. I'm going to do OK, and I'm going to add my CPU Usage, you notice I highlighted it there, I'm going to go ahead and add that. Then I think I'm going to add one more Monitor, I'm going to do another Live Element, I'm going to do a Monitor Graph again, and again I'm going to do it over a System Group called Production. And this time I want to do Total Jobs, so I'm going to just start keying in Total here, and I'll come down and I'll do Total Jobs in System. I highlighted to add it, I'm going to go ahead and add it, I'm going to change my Frame Setting, I'm going to do Rounded Frame with Caption, and I'm going to do Monitor Total Jobs for Production. And again I'm going to click OK, and click OK. So now I have a number of widgets here. I can manually arrange these by dragging them around, but I like using the little wand that allows it to auto-adjust these. And I'm pretty happy with this, so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to close it, and now my widget is ready for viewing.
