I just sent a post a few minutes ago, so to avoid too much redundancy, read
that one.
But, to make sure you know that this can be done with NetView:
Make sure that Automatic Layout is turned off for the submaps you want to
customize with floor plan backgrounds.
Position the icons on the floor plan where you want them, and they will stay
there (unless moved or the layout is changed back to Auto, or someone runs
Redo Layout).
You don't need to worry about the window size; it works no matter the size.
Joel Gerber - I/T Networking Professional - USAA Information Technology Co.
- San Antonio, TX
* (210)456-4231 * mailto:Joel.Gerber@USAA.com "
http://www.usaa.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stamm [SMTP:Robert_Stamm@RES.RAYTHEON.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 09:53
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: Changing size of the bitmaps
Background maps are a poor way to teach geography, I agree but the
idea of
having a background
can be used for much more (one would hope) then putting up a pretty
picture. Let me explain.
Imagine an Air Traffic Control System (like I work on) and you have
consoles layed out in a specific
floorplan. Controllers in one area work on aircraft flysing to the
east,
on the other side of the room they
control those to the west, etc.. Behind them all on a raised floor
are
several supervisory positions looking down into the main floor. In
another
room is a set of Technical & Maintenance positions. distributed
about are
printers ... and other pieces of equipment.
A meaningful floorplan layout of where equipment is would model the
operational environment precisely
and show network maintenance personnel exactly where a failed piece
of
equipment is. Therefore when
one of possibly several hundred devices goes down that person knows
where
to go to address the problem. That's what it can be used for, You
might
also note the Computer Associates Unicenter
supports the capability to layout your network in a model depicting
where
things really are, not some
conceptualized layout.
I'd love to create several submaps, each showing the location of
things
like network printers, another showing where the radar track
processors
are, another showing spuervisor positions, you get the picture ...
(no pun
intended).
If the size of a submap's window can be fixed then it seems NetView
could
be made to operate with different submapa each depicting a portion
of the
ATC System's floorplan. Resizing of icons would then not be an
issue since
when a specific map was displayed it would always be sized
accordingly to
show the proper relation between the floorplan image and the icons
themselves.
Does anyone know if the size of a submap can be locked so the user
can;t
resize it?
Leslie Clark <lclark@US.IBM.COM> on 02/01/2000 10:14:10 AM
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To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: Robert Stamm/RES/Raytheon/US)
Subject: Re: Changing size of the bitmaps
Netview also takes into account how far apart the icons are. You
might get
some improvement if you spread them really far apart. Make sure you
put
something right at the edges of the map. It will resize to keep an
even
amount
of space around the edges while maintaining the relative spacing.
Of couse, once you get them to stay smaller, you probably won't have
labels.
There is an entry in OVw app-defaults to control the point at which
they go
away.
Personally, I think the background gifs are a poor way to teach
geography,
and
they don't help performance any. I would go for a relative
arrangement with
good labels on location icons instead. Unless the tour group is
coming
thru...
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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Right, but what you cannot do is tell NetView to use a smaller icon
bitmap
so
that things will look better against your backrgound gif. There is
no
mechanism
to size the two in unison. NetView determines how big your icon
should
be by
how many you have on the map, and selects the largest bit map he can
from
those
available in the bitmaps directory, whether you have a background
gif or
not.
The background is sized independently by how big the map window is
and will
be
that size no matter how many icons you have on the screen. The
background
gif
is just window filler, in effect.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Bob Stamm <Robert_Stamm@RES.RAYTHEON.COM> on 02/01/2000 08:31:27 AM
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To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Re: Changing size of the bitmaps
If you look at the directory /usr/OV/bitmaps/C you'll see
collections of
files like modem.32.p and modem.32.m. They'll be about
five modem files ... think of the p and m as plus and minus, one
file is
the size 32 positive (white) overlay of a icon bitmap and the .m
files is the minus (black) overlay of the same bitmap. Use the
bitmap
editor in X to look at these files.
You need to create a set of different bitmaps that will be used when
the
symbol is resized. Then when you resize your submap
the appropriate icon size will be used.
erika ocaqa <eocana@YAHOO.COM> on 01/31/2000 10:18:01 PM
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Subject: Changing size of the bitmaps
Hi all.
Does someone know how can i change the size of the bitmaps?, my
problem is
that i have a background that is the map of the locations in the
enterprise, but when we put the map, the symbols are bigger than
the
locations of the map. Thanks in advanced.
Best Regards
Erika
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