Using web map services as operational indicators in Dashboards

luke_worsham

Our team manages multiple web service URLs, each serving multiple map service layers. I had the idea to use a Dashboard of these services to monitor when certain connections go down or become unavailable - sort of a quick-glance series of red = up / green = down indicators. But so far I can't figure out how to format an indicator to merely indicate an active web service connection. Is there a (better) way to do this? 

Thanks for any help -

Luke W.

jcarlson

For a quick glance "is this on?" indicator, consider using the "No Selection" or "No Data" label. The contents of this text box will render when there is no data, such as when the service is down.

You could set the contents to an SVG item by clicking the Source button and entering the following code:

<p style="text-align:center"><svg height="200" width="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <circle cx="100" cy="100" fill="#ff8888" r="98" stroke="#fd0000" stroke-width="4"></circle> </svg></p>

Which would render as:

Feel free to turn that to an SVG of an exclamation or an X or what have you.

Then for the indicator itself, remove any text and just turn on an icon that will render any time the layer is connected to.

 

It's also likely that when the service is down, you might see a little yellow warning symbol and a message about the layer being inaccessible. But hey, that works at a glance, too! The important thing is, the "No Data" label you have configured will still work when the layer is down.