Adding Dashboard Functionality
One of the lesser known extension points of the DotNetNuke framework is the Dashboard. This feature allows the site administrator to display information about the status and health of the DotNetNuke environment. The Dashboard is not limited to pre-existing reports; you can easily add additional dashboard extensions to your site. While these modules are rather simple in design and functionality, they can greatly improve the "situation analysis" of your DotNetNuke site.
This presentation will detail the development and installation of a sample dashboard module reporting the size of various tables in the DotNetNuke Database. Once you have learned the required few steps, adding your own dashboard item will be straight forward.
Monitoring Back Office Systems with DotNetNuke
Are you responsible for unattended applications that absolutely must "work" – how do you monitor the day-to-day operations to ensure application functionality?– I use DotNetNuke.
This session will detail and discuss how to use DotNetNuke to monitor applications to ensure the processes are working and the applications are functioning as required. How can DotNetNuke be used to ensure standard functionality of your "back office system", validate appropriate functions have completed, display standard log files, or display a dashboard of application status? DotNetNuke makes a great internal tool to support the "data center" operations.
Additionally DotNetNuke can play a pivotal roll in system recovery. A monitoring site can be used to verify recovery, initiate recovery steps, provide user documentation on handling recovery, implement client notification, and provide user feedback. Lastly, using DotNetNuke to monitor DotNetNuke sites will be discussed.