Guidelines for threshold icons

There are already seven predefined severity icons that can be assigned to threshold cells, and you can add your own severity threshold icons to the portal server.

When adding your own severity threshold icons to the portal server, observe these requirements and guidelines:
  • Use iconic images sized at 9 pixels by 9 pixels to match the size of the predefined severity icons. You can use larger images, but they will be clipped when applied to a scroll button.
  • Save the images in the GIF format. Nonlinear GIFs look best when saved with a transparent background.
  • Include the severity value in the filename, immediately preceding the .gif extension (such as icon28.gif, serious_92.gif, or 999.gif). Valid values are greater than 0 and less than MAX_INT and must be unique. If a duplicate severity is found, the icon file will not be included in the list of possible icons that can be used for threshold cells. These are the severity values of the predefined icons:
    • Fatal Fatal = 100
    • Critical Critical = 90
    • Minor Minor = 40
    • Warning Warning = 30
    • Harmless Harmless = 27
    • Informational Informational = 25
    • Unknown Unknown = 15
  • Use only ASCII characters in the filename. Names that use characters outside the ASCII code range will not be displayed in the list of available files when the user browses to select one.
  • On the computer where the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal Server installed, place the GIF files in the user directory:
    or <itm_installdir>/cw/classes/candle/fw/resources/icons/user
    <itm_installdir>\cnb\classes\candle\fw\resources\icons\user
  • If users are logged on to the portal server, they will need to exit the portal and log on again before the icons will be available for inclusion in the threshold criteria.