Sharing Dashboard is one of the cool features available in vCOPS. You need to have Advance or Enterprise Edition to get Dashboard functionality. For more information about vCOPS features and their editions,  please click here

We are going to use the Local user account for this blog. I will write another blog for LDAP access. We would need two things here.

1. Create the necessary Groups and User account
2. Create the Dashboard, Share it and assign it to the group

Steps to create local user account

1. Go to custom Dashboard URL
2. Click on Admin -> Security
3. The following screen will be displayed
4. Security User Management

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5. Click on Add New Group
6. New Group

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7. Fill in the Group Details
8. Group Details

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9. Click on the Group Testing
10. New Group Added

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11. Add a new user for that group. We are using local user accounts here
12. User Addition

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13. Fill in the User Account Details
14. User Detials

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15. Now you have added the user information to the group

Sharing the Dashboard

1. Select the Dashboard
2. Click on the Share link, just below the Dashboard
3. Share Dashboard

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4. Drag the Dashboard from the left, to the Testing Group, what was created earlier.
5. Shared Dashboard list

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6. Once, the Dashboard is shared, you will see a yellow icon next to the dashboard name
7. Yellow Icon

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8. Now, you access the custom url with the local username and password that was created earlier, you will see the shared dashboard.

There is more to this, you can give necessary permission on the dashboard for the users. That warrants for another blog entry