Your boss is coming in and telling you that a technician needs a map with more than 250 hosts clearly laid out. You think: “Hey, that’s not possible, with a full description for every host!” The font in the background image is not the problem, but the std_small-iconset from NagVis is too big for such a request.
Build your own iconset.
A complete iconset consists of 11 files. These files are png images which are named like this:
| Filename | Description |
|---|---|
| <set>_ack.png | Acknowledged problem |
| <set>_error.png | Error while fetching status |
| <set>_unknown.png | Unkown state |
| <set>_critical.png | Critical state |
| <set>_ok.png | Ok state |
| <set>_up.png | Up state (Host) |
| <set>_down.png | Down state (Host) |
| <set>_sack.png | Acknowledged problem (Service) |
| <set>_warning.png | Warning state |
<set>_ok.png image to list the iconsets, meaning there has to be a <set>_ok.png image to have a complete iconset which can be choosen in WUI.
Almost every graphic art software has the ability to build PNG-files. In this example Photoshop is used to create a smaller version of the std_small iconset called std_mini.
| Iconset | Icon size | icon map |
|---|---|---|
| std_small | 16×16 pixel |
|
| mini | 9×9 pixel | |
To implement the set in your NagVis installation, copy all files to the iconset folder. In version 0.9.x it is nagvis/iconsets, since version 1.x it is nagvis/nagvis/images/iconsets.
Open one of your maps and add a new host-icon. You should now be able to select std_mini as iconset.