We created a view as a portlet on our FMS. When trying to drag n drop it on to a dashboard it does not show up in the list of views. Strangely, the same view imported into another FMS does list the view as a selection and are able to drag n drop it into a dashboard.
On the first server which the 'Select a view...' link is available and the view/portlet is showing up in the list, we can see some other views with the same criteria for drag'n'drop but probably having a context input of type 'Monitoring:Metric'. Reference the attached screen-shot.
But the second server does not have any other views that takes a required input context of 'Monitoring:Metric' type so the link is not available and user cannot select a view.
Two options:
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More information about the differences between a Common:Metric vis avis a Monitoring:Metric.
Both refer to the same objects, but they reside in different namespaces. Monitoring metric resides in the Foglight namespace where as common metric resides in the WCF namespace. Having a view that uses monitoring metric causes WCF to cast a wider net when searching for possible views that can be dragged into a portal. When only common metrics are present, the net is narrower for better performance, as there is no reason to search for objects that do not exist.
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