You do not need an application to do this.  On the read-writ map, you
simply right-click on the map icon, select Edit --> Modify/Describe -->
Symbol and you can change both the status source and the status to be what
you want.  But you will have to change them back again yourself (it is easy
to forget) and you will have to demand poll the router to get the proper
status back.

<soapbox on>
Personally I worry a lot about organizations where the help desk doesn't
know that a router is down for maintenance.  What do they tell a user who
calls in -- It looks OK to me?  In my humble opinion they should know which
ones are down.  Once they have made certain that the down status is OK,
they can always acknowledge it.  I was a customer for 8 years before I went
to work for IBM/Tivoli and it was part of my job then to make sure the help
desk knew what was going on.
<soapbox off>

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



Jon Needes <jon.needes AT ATS.UK.EDS DOT COM> on 03/15/99 05:56:48 AM

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Subject:  Re: Map icon cololrs





Regina King wrote:

> I would like to know if there is a way to change the color of a router
manually.  What I have in mind is to chnage the color of the router to
Admin Down when we have a scheduled maintenance or upgrade to a router,
turning pink rather than red so our help desk does not think the router has
a network failure.  Is this possible?

The best solution might be to unmanage the router while it is under
maintenance so that NetView ignores it. If you do not like the colour
associated with an unmanaged device you can change the appropriate resource
in OVw. The ways of doing this have been discussed recently.

An alternative would be a write a simple application to change the state of
the router to User1 ('good' state) or User2 ('bad' state). You would also
have to change the Status Source from Compound (Propagated) so that the
state change will be reflected in your display. I think you should be able
to do this within your
application, but I have not tried it. Again you might want to change the
colour representing the user state.

Jon Needes
EDS, Hook, UK