Green.gif is default

-----Original Message----- From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of John Thurston Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:22 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] change custom column icon

On 5/27/2018 3:28 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

Sorry, but what's the "info" icon? On my system the info icon is the same green icon as any other column icons.

In xymonserver.cfg you should find:

INFOCOLUMN="foo" # Column where the info-pages are reported. INFOCOLUMNGIF="bar" # Icon file used for the info-column

On my servers, foo==info and bar==folder.png I forget what default values are. Maybe those are defaults.

I'm not aware of any way to change the icons for custom tests.

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On 13 June 2018 at 08:29, Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:

I have custom icons and themed my systems to make them a bit less neon, more professional and easy on the eyes. I've attached a screenshot. Hopefully the mailing list doesn't strip it off.

It didn't. Looks very cool.

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I would like a few of my custom tests to have the same 'info.png' icon instead of the green/yellow/red icons.

I did not know the Info column could have its icon changed. That's neat. In my installation (and at xymon.org) it's just the standard green.gif.

The tests always come in green, so I'm not concerned with any color changing or alerting on those particular tests. One of the tests is the 'who' column that BBwin and the XymonPSClient send in. I just want the 'info' icon to display instead of the green one. It sounds simple enough but I can't figure out how/if the system will allow me to define it.

Yep, makes sense.

I tried adding this to my xymonserver.cfg and restarting, but nothing happened. I suspect because WHOCOLUMN is not recognized by Xymongen. WHOCOLUMN="who" WHOCOLUMNGIF="info.png"

You're correct. All of the "*COLUMN" and "*COLUMNGIF" strings are special, and you can't make up your own (without changing the source code).

The simplest thing might be to tweak the display in the browser with a bit of Javascript, perhaps inserted into a template or footer file. Something like:

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery("img").each( function(){ var self=jQuery(this); if ((self).attr("title").match(/^who:[a-z]+:/)) { var newsrc=(self).attr("src").replace("green.gif","info.gif"); (self).attr("src",newsrc); }; } ); </script>

This looks for any "<img>" tag with the "title" attribute (pop-up text) "who:bla:bla" and substitutes green.gif with info.gif.

To insert a bit of HTML or JavaScript into every page, add the text into a file called xymonbodyfooter.html in the same directory where xymonserver.cfg, and then set XYMONBODYFOOTER="file:$XYMONHOME/etc/xymonbodyfooter.html" into xymonserver.cfg. The location and name of the xymonbodyfooter.html is arbitrary.

Cheers Jeremy