Chapter 12: Status Reports
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 Click Apply
Note: The Alerts widget is a new screen that shows the current alerts status. When an alert gets triggered, a
corresponding .XML file is created in /var/run/alerts/. The dashboard scans all these files and displays a summary
status in the alerts widget. When an alert is deleted the corresponding .XML files that belong to that alert are also
deleted.
To configure what is to be displayed by each widget:
 Go to the Configure widgets panel and configure each selected widget (e.g. specify which UPS status is to be
displayed on the ups widget or the maximum number of Managed Devices to be displayed in the devices widget
 Click Apply
Note: Dashboard configuration is stored in the /etc/config/config.xml file. Each configured dashboard will increase the
config file. If this file gets too big, you can run out of memory space on the console server.
12.5.2 Creating custom widgets for the Dashboard
T o run a custom script inside a dashboard widget: