Configuration file *_conf.xml

To display a Management view, you need a Management view configuration file (*_conf.xml) to define a connection to the source system and to specify users that are permitted to access the Management view. As for the Performance Dashboard, you can use global filters to interactively specify the appearance of the Management view.

Differences between Management view and Performance Dashboard configuration file:

Tip

A detailed description of the common configuration features (connection, userlist, and filterlist XML elements) is available in the XML elements in dashboard configuration file *_conf.xml chapter.

The forma of the MV configuration file is specified by the file managementviewconfig.dtd in the directory <installation directory>\ppmmashzone\server\bin\agentLocalRepo\.unpacked\ppm-web-run-prod-<version>-runnable.zip\ppm\PerformanceDashboard\webapp\dtd.

The client-specific managementviews subdirectory of your Performance Dashboard installation contains the default configuration file _default_managementview_conf.xml with generally valid data for this client for displaying your Management views.

If you want to use settings that differ from the default configuration for particular Management views, you can assign each MV structure file (<MV name>.html) a separate configuration file containing specific settings (e.g., global filters, user lists, etc.) by giving it the same base name as your structure file. 

For example, if you have created a Flex MV based on a structure file called mymv1.html, you must name the associated configuration file mymv1_conf.xml. This means that the data in the configuration file mymv1_conf.xml is read when calling up this Management view.

Example configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE mvconfig SYSTEM "managementviewconfig.dtd">

<mvconfig displaytype="private">

<connection name="ppm" type="PPM"
data_retrieval="by_connection_user">

<property name="corbaurl" value="pctest:900"/>

<property name="client" value="demo41_en"/>

<property name="user" value="system"/>

<property name="password"
value="#*+GoVlqdxyBIugO0FWvj5WnyJ3HyM=+*#"/>

</connection>

<userlist>

<usergroup name="MV_USERS" source="ppm"/>

<user name="system" source="ppm"/>

</userlist>

</mvconfig>

If you do not want to display particular Management views in the list of available Management views in the source system application, you must provide a separate configuration file for these Management views and in this file assign the displaytype XML attribute for the mvconfig element the value private.