Step by Step how to share a Dashboard with a Group in vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) 8.0

Have you ever been sitting there and your boss requests you create a custom dashboard for operations in vROPS?  You go through building metrics, views, and the custom dashboard and now it is time to share the dashboard.  This article is on a quick and easy way to share a dashboard you created with a group.

Sharing a dashboard with a group.

vROps Manage Dashboards page used to select a dashboard for group sharing.

Dashboard>Manage Dashboards
Click on the individual under shared

vROps Group Sharing dialog used to choose which group can access the dashboard.

Select the group you want to share your dashboard with.
——-My example is the everyone group but if you have a group called Operations just click the drop down and select Operations

Group Sharing dialog grants dashboard access to the Everyone group.

Once done click on the X

vROps Manage Dashboards page showing the dashboard shared with the selected group.

As you can see you are now sharing with the group you selected.

Summary:
As you can see from the steps above it appears to be a simple way of doing things.  However, if like me you struggled clicking around a few minutes to figure it out or you hoped on google and found this article, it isn’t always straight forward.  I hope this article was useful to y’all.

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