As you know SCOM 2012 provides new dashboard types (column or grid layout) which can contain widgets. Widgets are small “add-on” which are able to display different kind of SCOM data. For example state data (similar to state views) or performance data (similar to performance views).
Here an example…
Over on Operations Manager Team blog I stepped over a nice table which shows the data sources of the widgets.
If you add a widget to a dashboard you are getting a wizard, showing this dialog…
As you can see e.g. the performance widget is getting it’s data from the OperationsManagerDW data warehouse and the state widget is getting it’s data from the OperationsManager database. It is very handy and easy overview, which I needed to share.
This is why widgets do not have the same time constraint like a performance view does. a widget can go farther back, than a performance view which is limited to what’s in the Operational database, by default 7 days.
Hi Scott
That’s excatly why I wrote this post. Thank’s for pointing this out.
Cheers,
Stefan
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[…] It appears that both the Alert widget and the Alert view read from the OperationsManager database. To test this I paused the VM running my OperationsManagerDW and I was still able to open and refresh data from both the Alert view and the Alert widget). This appears to be backed up by checking on the stored procedures to see if there is one for the Alert widget (see http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2013/12/09/fixing-the-objects-by-performance-widget-when-using-the-all-performance-instances-scom-sysctr.aspx for an example of where these are at in SQL). Tao Yang pointed out to me that this is stored in the OperationsManager database and pointed to Stefan Roth’s article which discusses various widgets and where they get their data from at http://stefanroth.net/2013/09/25/quick-post-scom-2012-where-does-widget-data-come-from/. […]
hi ,
I SCOM 2012 R2 there are many Dashboard Widgets, can you please share the data source for all Widgets , that would be a great help while showing the data in dashboards.
Hi Stefan, Please share new Widgets of SCOM 2012 R2 Data Sources