Adding a Report as tab in Inventory View
New in IPM version 7.1.5 is the ability to add a report as a separate tab in the related entity's Inventory view. For this to work, the report must have a single variable called entity_id defined and it should be left empty (no specific entity defined). Next, configure a filter for the chart that uses the variable.
Important
For 7.1.5, the name of the variable must be entity_id. This will be corrected in a future release.
For releases prior to and including 7.1.5, in order to edit existing inventory reports, you will need to set a property on the UI Service. The property is called com.vi.ui.allow.inventory.report.edit
and it should be set to true
. Refer to Service Management topic in the Virtana Infrastructure Performance Management Administrator Guide for more information. This requirement will be eliminated in a future release.
To add a report as a tab in Inventory, do the following.
Click on More > Show Attributes.
Under Report Attributes, select the Show as tab in the entity details page [EntityType] checkbox, where EntityType is the entity type (e.g., ESX Host) selected for the report and related variable, and provide a name for the Inventory tab in the Tab Name field.
Click Save.
Here is an example of an ESX Host Inventory view with two new tabs representing linked reports.
![inventory-linked-reports.png](image/uuid-9c989ff4-8c07-76e4-4359-d5346bce3b04.png)
Preview Tab Order
While viewing an Inventory report's attributes and deciding on a tab name, you may preview the tab order by clicking on the Preview Tab Order button to the right of the Tab Name field.
![inv-report-tab-order-1.png](image/uuid-1ca0f95e-0d9b-0f48-89bc-ddfb58d8e814.png)
![inv-report-tab-order-2.png](image/uuid-af1e1e59-e509-b8e5-a57a-981c5cc83ca9.png)