Configuring topology elements
You can customize a number of IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps console elements for the Topology viewer, such as resource styles and icons. You can also create custom topology tools which users can access through a topology's context menu.
Tip: The Topology viewer loads all configuration settings into memory when it opens. If you change your topology configurations after opening the Topology viewer, you must reopen it before these changes take effect.
For more information on resource properties, status (and states), edges and so on, see the Topology API topics.
Configuring advanced topology settings
You can define advanced topology settings. Examples include the URLs for trusted sites, the required properties for tooltips or relationship type styles, or the maximum hop numbers a user can choose in the topology viewer.
You can create custom topology tools, which users can then access from within a topology's context menu. Use this feature to access properties of a selected item, such as a resource or relationship, and run some customized functions within the context of that item.
You assign existing or new custom icons to particular resource types using the Resource types page. Here you can also apply further resource type style edits, such as adding custom labels to a resource type, and changing its shape, size, border and background.
Configuring relationship types
You can customize the styles and labels for specified relationship types using the Relationship types page. You can also delete existing, or create new relationship type styles.
You can add custom icons for resources that are displayed by using the Custom Icons page.
Rules help streamline topologies and conserve system resources, such as by merging different observer records of the same resource into a single composite resource, or by excluding specific changes from being recorded against a resource history.