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SQL Diagnostic Manager allows you to choose from several different layouts of columns and rows for your dashboard design. You can then drag and drop panels from the Panel Gallery to the actual location in the layout where you want that panel to reside. You can also click, hold, and drag panels to re-arrange their location. When you drag a panel to another position and release the mouse button, the panel you moved switches locations with the existing panel. For example, your design includes the CPU panel in the upper left corner and the Sessions panel in the lower right corner. Click, hold, and drag the Sessions panel to the upper left corner, and then release. Note that the Sessions panel is in the upper left corner and the CPU panel is now in the lower right corner. For more information on available designs, see Design a dashboard view. 

SQL Diagnostic Manager includes several options for you to use as your Dashboard view. You can also create a design using the available panels, and save the design for other people in your environment to use as their Dashboard view. For more information on available designs, see Select a dashboard design. 

Saving a design

Once you are pleased with the selection and positioning of your panels, you can save your design. In the Dashboard Designer, click Save. SQL Diagnostic Manager allows you to name this design, which is then displayed in the Dashboard Gallery. For additional information about saving a dashboard design, see Save a dashboard design. 

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SQL Diagnostic Manager allows you to view a custom layout of your Dashboard view for a single session of the SQL Diagnostic Manager Management Console. For example, an event in one of your instances triggered an alert. You want to watch the metric that includes statistics relating to this alert, so you access the Panel Gallery in the Dashboard Designer. Drag the panel displaying the alert-related statistics to the top-left corner of your layout, and then close the Dashboard Designer. SQL Diagnostic Manager displays a message that you made changes to the current design. Click No No to use this design only until you close this session of the SQL Diagnostic Manager Management Console.

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When you are done with your design, click Save Save to make sure you can use this design again. Type a unique name for this design, verify that this SQL Server instance appears in the Selected ServersServers area. You can add any other SQL Server instances, select the name of the instance, and then click Add > to move the instance to the Selected Servers area. Once your list of selected instances is complete, click OK.

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You can also select an existing dashboard design as the default for one or more monitored SQL Server instances. On the Server Overview tab, click Customize to open the Dashboard Designer, and click Select a Dashboard. Scroll through the available designs and select the one you want to use for the monitored instance. Click Select Select and each time you access the Dashboard view for this instance, SQL Diagnostic Manager displays the information in this design.

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SQL Diagnostic Manager allows you to select a design to use as the default for all new or unassigned monitored SQL Server instances so that you have a consistent format across all of your monitored SQL Server instances. When saving a dashboard design, check the Use this dashboard as my default for new or unassigned servers check box.

Available panels

• Cache panel
• CPU panel
• Custom Counters Panel
• Databases panel
• Disk panel
• File Activity panel
• Lock Waits panel
• Memory panel
• Network panel
• Server Waits panel
• Sessions panel
• Tempdb panel
• Virtualization panel