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Add remote environment to management zone

Jurgen_Roels1 — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:44:24 GMT

Hi,

I've created a dashboard with some tiles which are containing data from a remote environment.

On the other hand I will be using management zones to give the appropriate user rights.

The problem is that my dashboard is not showing the data from the remote environment when I filter on a management zone. Is there a possibility to add the remote environment to the management zone?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Jurgen

Re: Add remote environment to management zone

ChadTurner — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:53:25 GMT

Are you able to tag the remote environment entity? If so give it a tag such as "<APPNAME> - Remote Environment" and then add the rule to the Management Zone to include anything with the host tag "<AppName - Remote Environment"

outside of that i dont think there are rules to pick and choose the remote environment from the Management Zone rules level. Id recommend tossing in a RFE with some details about what kind of rules for remote environments you'd like: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/DynatraceProductIdeas

Re: Add remote environment to management zone

RomanW — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:39:32 GMT

There are two ways to cope with this situation:

1) Use specific remote management zone per tile (as described in this recent blog post: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/reporting-at-scale-leveraging-cross-environment-dashboards-general-availability/ )

the upside of this is that it works out of the box
the downside is that is no longer dynamic if you change the management zone on the dashboatd

2) Keep management zones in sync over conneceted environments

you'd essentially need to synchronize management zone Ids (as described here: https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/new-configuration-api-enables-efficient-configuration-as-code-management-of-dynatrace/ )
the management zone's ID gets tacked on as a filter argument into the remote environment
since you IDs match, the filter applies and provides accurate results

Re: Add remote environment to management zone

Jurgen_Roels1 — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 06:21:42 GMT

Thanks Roman!

I've implemented the second option and this is working like expected 🙂