non-blinking icons (nb-red.gif et al) for Xymon status?
I went looking through the Xymon mailing list archive, and saw references to "nb" (non-blinking) GIFs in the past, but I don't see any files with "nb" in their names (besides a client for "openbsd" and "xymonbody.css") in the xymon build or installed directories. This is Xymon-4.3.18, built from source on RedHat RHEL-6.6 Linux.
Since I often have a Xymon display running either in a VM that's VPN'd to a different project network, or displayed on a remote desktop display, the constant display change from the "blinking", "winking" and "pulsing" icons drive a lot of unnecessary network traffic and/or CPU time.
Do I need to dig back into the BigBrother files to find the non-blinkers, am I just looking in the wrong place (or for the wrong names), or do I need to make some new ones? They used to be called "nb-red.gov", "nb-yellow.gif" and "nb-purple.gif", at least on my BigBrother server.
Cheers,
-Andrew
On 3/4/2015 3:14 PM, Andrew Rakowski wrote:
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Since I often have a Xymon display running either in a VM that's VPN'd to a different project network, or displayed on a remote desktop display, the constant display change from the "blinking", "winking" and "pulsing" icons drive a lot of unnecessary network traffic and/or CPU time.
Not to mention they will just drive you crazy!
We ripped out the blinkers and installed a new set of "calm" .png files. We then sym-linked the old .gif names to new .png names and moved on with our lives.
Do I need to dig back into the BigBrother files to find the non-blinkers, am I just looking in the wrong place (or for the wrong names), or do I need to make some new ones? They used to be called "nb-red.gov", "nb-yellow.gif" and "nb-purple.gif", at least on my BigBrother server.
The green/red/etc.gif files are non-blinking, but they are used for "older" alerts. The green/red/etc-recent.gif files are blinkers. I don't think there are any other non-blinkers.
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On Wed, March 4, 2015 4:23 pm, John Thurston wrote:
On 3/4/2015 3:14 PM, Andrew Rakowski wrote:
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Since I often have a Xymon display running either in a VM that's VPN'd to a different project network, or displayed on a remote desktop display, the constant display change from the "blinking", "winking" and "pulsing" icons drive a lot of unnecessary network traffic and/or CPU time.
Not to mention they will just drive you crazy!
We ripped out the blinkers and installed a new set of "calm" .png files. We then sym-linked the old .gif names to new .png names and moved on with our lives.
Do I need to dig back into the BigBrother files to find the non-blinkers, am I just looking in the wrong place (or for the wrong names), or do I need to make some new ones? They used to be called "nb-red.gov", "nb-yellow.gif" and "nb-purple.gif", at least on my BigBrother server.
The green/red/etc.gif files are non-blinking, but they are used for "older" alerts. The green/red/etc-recent.gif files are blinkers. I don't think there are any other non-blinkers.
Interestingly, a Google search on those files turned up something called "Eclipse" from 1997, which seems to have been some sort of BB clone (at least bbbut.gif was included in it). There's no nb-${color}.gif in the Xymon distribution, but the '>24h' icons could indeed serve that purpose.
There are also other icons available at https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons that could be used.
HTH,
-jc
Gifs are available here: http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/
There were only 3 non-blinking gifs:
http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/nb-purple.gif http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/nb-red.gif http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/nb-yellow.gif
J.C. Cleaver wrote:
On Wed, March 4, 2015 4:23 pm, John Thurston wrote:
On 3/4/2015 3:14 PM, Andrew Rakowski wrote:
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Since I often have a Xymon display running either in a VM that's VPN'd to a different project network, or displayed on a remote desktop display, the constant display change from the "blinking", "winking" and "pulsing" icons drive a lot of unnecessary network traffic and/or CPU time. Not to mention they will just drive you crazy!
We ripped out the blinkers and installed a new set of "calm" .png files. We then sym-linked the old .gif names to new .png names and moved on with our lives.
Do I need to dig back into the BigBrother files to find the non-blinkers, am I just looking in the wrong place (or for the wrong names), or do I need to make some new ones? They used to be called "nb-red.gov", "nb-yellow.gif" and "nb-purple.gif", at least on my BigBrother server. The green/red/etc.gif files are non-blinking, but they are used for "older" alerts. The green/red/etc-recent.gif files are blinkers. I don't think there are any other non-blinkers.
Interestingly, a Google search on those files turned up something called "Eclipse" from 1997, which seems to have been some sort of BB clone (at least bbbut.gif was included in it). There's no nb-${color}.gif in the Xymon distribution, but the '>24h' icons could indeed serve that purpose.
There are also other icons available at https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons that could be used.
HTH,
-jc
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Just wanted to thank both Sean and JC for the pointers, and comment on what I ended up doing.
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Sean MacGuire wrote:
Gifs are available here: http://happyplace.openenglish.com/bb/gifs/
There were only 3 non-blinking gifs:
The nb-<color>.gif files Sean points out are *just* like the ones from BigBroPro, so I mv'd the old {red,yellow,purple}.gif files out of the way and symlinked them to the nb-{red,yellow,purple}.gif files, and everyone was happy (and system resources to display the constant blinking dropped to a much lower consumption level.)
J.C. Cleaver wrote: [...snip...]
There are also other icons available at https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons that could be used.
The "LED Themes" by Malcolm Hunter, from the "addons" wiki which JC mentioned has a nice, professional looking set of icons (both "Modern" and "Classic" shaped "LEDs". Sadly, these still have "blinking" for the "*-recent.gif" files, so they look nice, but don't act nicely when viewed remotely.
I guess I'll just live with the standard Xymon devilishly winking red-recent.gif, and strange three-eyed green-recent.gif files to keep showing the "ages" of the states.
Thanks again...
-Andrew
Hi Andrew,
I guess I'll just live with the standard Xymon devilishly winking red-recent.gif, and strange three-eyed green-recent.gif files to keep showing the "ages" of the states.
Why not just linking or copying the red.gif to red-recent.gif? Otherwise you can define for how long the dots shall be blinking. In xymonserver.cfg just add the option
XYMONGENOPTS="--recentgifs=5"
The the blinking will stop after 5 minutes.
Dirk
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