Background color

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list Bill Arlofski · Wed, 28 May 2008 10:07:12 -0400 ·

Is it possible to have the background color on EVERY page be the color of the worst issue?

That is, if any service is yellow, shouldn't all pages have a yellow background so that no matter what system or service you are looking at you know that something is yellow somewhere. (same goes for purple or red)

I thought I read with the all-in-one patch that the background color now   mimics the way Big Brother worked. Perhaps I misread.


Is this a switch I missed somewhere?

Thanks


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list Josh Luthman · Wed, 28 May 2008 10:33:08 -0400 ·

It is the worst condition on that page.  For example, if the page
you're looking at has 10 hosts and any of them are red, the bg is red.
 It won't take conditions from other pages, though.  This way if you
look at a specific test for a specific host it shows you the condition
of that test.

Josh

▸ quoted from Bill Arlofski


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Bill Arlofski <user-0b8af203a56e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Is it possible to have the background color on EVERY page be the color of
the worst issue?

That is, if any service is yellow, shouldn't all pages have a yellow
background so that no matter what system or service you are looking at you
know that something is yellow somewhere. (same goes for purple or red)

I thought I read with the all-in-one patch that the background color now
 mimics the way Big Brother worked. Perhaps I misread.


Is this a switch I missed somewhere?

Thanks


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list Bill Arlofski · Wed, 28 May 2008 11:02:56 -0400 ·

▸ quoted from Josh Luthman

Josh Luthman wrote:

It is the worst condition on that page.  For example, if the page
you're looking at has 10 hosts and any of them are red, the bg is red.
 It won't take conditions from other pages, though.  This way if you
look at a specific test for a specific host it shows you the condition
of that test.

Right...

I just checked a BB installation I have had in place for about 6 years and I see where my confusion may have come from.

I thought that the overall background color came from the 'worst' condition because of the following:

We (my old webmaster and I) created a simple integrated Big Brother/MRTG page that gave us quick access to the graphs of the key switches as well as the current overall status of Big Brother.

http://www.revpol.com/images/bigbrian1.png

When the left frame loads, the php script pulls in the main BB page, parses the background color and sets the background of the Big Brother link in the left frame to that color - so instantly we can see Big Brother's status without having its main page (or its non-green page) displayed.

The "main" Big Brother page at this site consists of several summary links http://www.revpol.com/images/bigbrian2.png so our Big Brother link in the left frame always showed us the color of the worst condition.


Sorry for the confusion!


P.S. That old Big Brother installation is slated for a hobbit migration this summer. :)


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