We have had a number of requests for the ability to rotate between dashboards and we have been listening. Many of our customer put up our dashboards on big LCD screens in their operations room so everyone can have an at-a-glance view of current monitoring status. Our light panel display is the most popular dashboard for this purpose but there are some other things that are nice to have.
For example, many dashboards include critical bandwidth values such as the total bandwidth on certain key routers. By editing the dashboard you can add those bandwidth to the bottom of the light panel dashboard but then there’s something else that would be nice and something else and, well, eventually there’s just not enough room on one screen.
A poster in our support forums very kindly pointed out that there’s a Firefox plug-in to cycle between open tabs. By that time though we were already working on incorporating this feature in Tembria Server Monitor itself so we’re pleased to announce that it will be available in v5.5.4 and it works in all supported browsers.
Posted by Dave
Yep, we’re happily using Firefox with tab rotations and IE tab to render the lightbox dashboard correctly… it works great – but if you can make it easier, I’m all up for that!
We’re using two 40″ Samsung LCD displays, and Tembria looks sharp on them.
Thanks, we’re looking forward to using this. Will check out the FF add-on in the mean time.
Which add-on are you guys using?
We used “Tab Slideshow” and it seemed to work very well. We have no connection with the developer but you can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2688