Technical Tip: Can the container alarm rollup in Spectrum be changed to alarm on the entire container model instead of just the upside down triangle?
CA Spectrum Technical Tip by Joe Ackley, Principal Support Engineer
Description: Can the container alarm rollup in Spectrum be changed to alarm on the entire container model instead of just the upside down triangle?
Solution: Yes, this can be changed with a modification to the OneClick xml files that control this function.
Out of the box, alarms on models within a container model will roll up threshold values to the container and depending on the rollup values on the model alarming and threshold values set on the contianer model, a rollup alarm will be displayed on the contianer model as an upside down triangle to indicate a rollup threshold alarm exists. The following is a screen shot of the out of the box rollup:
The oneclick-container-iconbase-config.xml and oneclick-container-iconbase-image-config.xml files located in the $SPECROOT/tomcat/webapps/spectrum/WEB-INF/topo/config directory can be modified to accomplish this. When complete, the entire container model will change to the roll up condition color. The following is a screen shot of the rollup after the change:
NOTE: Doing this may confuse some users into thinking the container is in an alarm status.
The attached oneclick-container-iconbase-config.xml and oneclick-container-iconbase-image-config.xml files can be placed in the $SPECROOT/custom/topo/config directory of the OneClick server to achieve this. After copying these files to the $SPECROOT/custom/topo/config directory, users will have to log out and then log back into OneClick in order to see this change. This is a global change and will affect all users logging into OneClick.