Adding a Report as tab in Inventory View
New in VW 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 VirtualWisdom 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.
