[Xymon] non-blinking icons (nb-red.gif et al) for Xymon status?

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Wed, March 4, 2015 4:23 pm, John Thurston wrote:
> On 3/4/2015 3:14 PM, Andrew Rakowski wrote:
> - snip -
>> 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