Custom Image enables you to associate a view's CIs represented by status indicators with a custom image that describes the real world that your view represents. The graphical representation of a view used by your organization can be a logical network diagram, business logic, or any other graphic image. For example, you can associate a graph representing your company's network with data coming from different parts of the network.
One custom image can be defined for each view. The image shown is the one defined for the active view. When you select a different view, the corresponding image is automatically displayed. If you do not define a custom image for a view, users accessing the Custom Image component see a message stating that there is no defined image for the view.
The custom image is defined in Custom Image (Administration > Service Health > Custom Image). For details, see
Note Custom Images uploaded with OMi 10.60 or 10.61 must be reuploaded after an upgrade to OMi 10.62.
To access
You can create your own pages and include this component. For details, see Set up My Workspace.
Tasks
How to work with Custom Image
You work with Custom Image in two stages:
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Within Administration > Service Health > Custom Image, you associate an image with a view, and specify where each CI is located in the image. For details, see
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Within Workspaces > My Workspace, you can then access the Custom Image component, and see the CI statuses in the view, within your custom image.
Note When a CI is removed from the IT universe model, the corresponding CI icon and the corresponding status indicators are automatically removed from the relevant custom images.
How to modify the refresh rate
The default refresh rate for Custom Image is five seconds.
You cannot modify refresh rates of the out-of-the-box pages. However, you can create a user-defined page with the components you need, and modify their refresh rates as follows:
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Component Menu drop-down list, select Preferences. The Custom Image Preferences window opens. - Modify the refresh rate as needed, and click OK.