Time to modify the last widget. This one will be a little more complicated due to how we display what we want while being interactive. When we configured the widget interactions, we noticed that the scoreboard widget was populated automatically with a bunch of metrics, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, let's go back to our dashboard creation and edit the Scoreboard widget. We will notice quite a lot of configuration options compared to others, most of which are how the boxes are laid out, such as number of columns, box size, and rounding out decimals. What we want to do for this widget is:

• Name the scoreboard something meaningful
• Round the decimals to 1 - this cuts down the amount of decimal places returned on the displayed value
• Under Metric Configuration choose the Host-Util file from the drop-down list

We should now see something similar to the following screenshot:

But what about the object selection you may have noticed in the lower half of the scoreboards widget? These are only used if we make the widget a self-provider, which we can see as an option to the top left of the edit window. We can choose objects and metrics, but they are ignored when Self Provider is set to Off.

If we now click Save we should see the new configuration of the scoreboard widget, as shown in the following screenshot:

The scoreboard widget may not always display the information we necessarily need. To get the widget to display the information we want while continuing to be interactive to our selections in the Cluster List widgets, we have to create a metric configuration (XML) file.