Custom Search Dashboards
Custom Search Dashboards allow you to create and execute custom scripts and display the output of those scripts in a dashboard.
To generate a Custom Search Dashboard, you create a JSON application file in the <HOME>/IBM/LogAnalysis/AppFramework/Apps directory. You can create sub directories in this directory to organize your applications.
After you have created your Custom Search Dashboard, the Custom Search Dashboards pane, in the Search workspace, displays the list of Custom Search Dashboards in the folder structure that you have specified.
To run a Custom Search Dashboard, locate it in the Custom Search Dashboards, right-click and click Execute.
For information about developing and customizing Custom Search Dashboards, see the Extending section of the documentation on the IBM Knowledge Center.
Expert advice
Expert advice is a Custom Search Dashboard that provides links to contextually relevant information to allow you to quickly resolve problems. Using the Expert advice Custom Search Dashboard, you can select any column or cells in Grid view and launch a search of the IBM support portal (IBMSupportPortal-ExpertAdvice.app). The Custom Search Dashboard searches for matches to unique terms contained in the column that you have selected. This Custom Search Dashboard can be launched from the Custom Search Dashboards panel in the left navigation pane of the Search workspace.
To increases the likelihood of success, the Custom Search Dashboard removes data that is specific to your environment for each search term. For example, a log message that contained the search string unable to access jarfile /myMachine/foo/bar/foobar.jar is not likely to return a specific match as the server path is likely to be specific to a user. This is abbreviated to unable to access jarfile to ensure better search results. The criteria used to exclude data can be configured. For more information about configuring the Expert advice Custom Search Dashboard, see the Configuring IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis section of the IBM Knowledge Center.
To launch the Expert advice Custom Search Dashboard for the data returned by a search, select a column or cell of data in Grid view, right-click and click Execute to launch the IBMSupportPortal-ExpertAdvice.app Custom Search Dashboard.