Changing icons for alert severity levels in the network views

If you want different alert status icons to represent alert severity levels in the Network View GUI, replace the default icons.

About this task

The required formats for replacement icons are as follows:
  • For the network view tree: GIF or PNG files.
  • For the topology map: GIF, PNG, or SVG files.
GIF or SVG files.

To replace a default icon:

Procedure

  1. Create the image for the security icon that you want to replace and copy the image to $NMGUI_HOME/profile/etc/tnm/resource/.
  2. Open the $NMGUI_HOME/profile/etc/tnm/status.properties file and make the following changes.
    1. In the Tree status images section of the files, point the property for the required severity to the new image.
      For example, to replace the default critical.gif file for severity level 5 with your own new image:
      status.tree.image.5=status/<filename for new critical icon>.gif
    2. In the Map status images section of the files, point the property for the required severity to the new image.
      For example, to replace the default critical.gif file for severity level 5 with your own new image:
      status.map.image.5=status/<filename for new critical icon>.gif
  3. Repeat the steps for each default icon that you want to replace.
  4. Save and close the file.