OpenSocial Portals

Google's OpenSocial dashboard standard is a common way to share gadgets. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager's widgets can be displayed inside of an OpenSocial Gadget. This example uses Atlassian's JIRA project.

1. You'll first need to add the gadget to your directory of gadgets.

2. In JIRA we click the Add Gadget button at the top of any Dashboard.

3. From there click the Add Gadget to Directory

It now asks for your gadget URL. The gadget is hosted on your SolarWinds Virtualization Manager server, so for the URL use http://your-server:8983/hyper9/gadget.xml

Now the SolarWinds Virtualization Manager gadget is ready to be used on your OpenSocial compliant dashboard. In JIRA you simply click the Add it Now button to place an empty gadget on your dashboard and follow the steps below to configure.

1. Click the edit button at the top of the widget

2. The configuration of this gadget requires two fields

•	SWF URL - This field is where the gadget should look for the flash movie. Use the Widget URL retrieved from the widget right-click action, but remove everything after the AppContainer.swf. For example, http://hyper9.company.com:8983/hyper9/AppContainer.swf

•	Widget Token - This field is for the unique token for the widget. This is the last section of the Widget URL after the = symbol

3. Click the save button to display the gadget

The result is a SolarWinds Virtualization Manager widget inside of an OpenSocial Portal.