I am attempting to display the status of a DCI poll that I have created for a windows agent process object. I would like to display a simple Green / Red Dot for good / bad status if the process is running or not.
The closest I have gotten is to use a gauge - pie graph as only chart objects seem to display DCI values on the dashboards. This does provide me a green dot if I customize the color and my process count is a value greater than zero. However if it is zero it is just "blank" no value.
Is there a way to display a DCI value as a good / bad color indicator on a dashboard that I am missing?
I have done this....its a bit of work to get started.
To begin with I created 4 x 1 colour 24x24 pixel png's. Black, green, yellow, and red. I uploaded them to my image library. Next I create a Network map->custom, with a black background color, but for now just leave it white and turn off "auto arrange". You can now add "dci images" that map to your data source, with a default image of the black png, and place it where you want it. You now setup "rules" on the "dci image" so different thresholds show a different colour image.
I usually go back after placing everything and turn the background black, but you can put a geo map or other image as your background. My original goal was to make a LCARS display but real work took over and I just made a grid status display for a small number of systems/process indicators. I also did a similar indicator setup on a picture of a switch with the indicators on the actual port lights to indicate status.
NetXMS has proved to be too good of a tool and we expanded to far too many devices to make this manual way worth it ( I ended up with a LOT of network maps that people just weren't using). Now if I could dynamically feed a DCI summary table into a custom network map template that would be awsome.
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