Bubble gauge for CPU at 13% in custom dashboard is red but the other dashboards display green. (4265425)

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Bubble gauge for CPU at 13% in custom dashboard is red but the other dashboards display green.
Description

In a custom dashboard created with the wizard the CPU is displayed in a bubble gauge in red.
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The CPU utilization is only 13%
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Other dashboards show the CPU as green.
Cause

The difference in the color being displayed in the dashboards for the CPU utilization is caused by what is being used to determine the color.
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The gauge created on the custom dashboard is using the threshold associated with the CPU Utilization metric to determine the threshold. The CPU Utilization metric is using the Intelliprofile threshold. Even though the utilization is only 13%, if most of time the utilization doesn't reach 13% a fatal severity can be reported for the utilization metric.
The color associated with the CPU utilization displayed under some of the other dashboards is based on the alarms that are currently reported for the CPU utilization for the host. For example, the spinner in the Host Details dashboard is queried from the CPU component (HostCPUs Topology) severity, so if there is no alarm reported in the CPU component, the spinner color will be green.
Resolution

Foglight is working as designed. Gauge color is determined by the metric threshold.

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