Configure Colors screen

The Configure Colors screen is accessed by clicking on the Config tab, and then selecting Colors. From that location, the operator can view and edit the list of message severity colors, that affects the appearance of various other screens. A depiction of this screen is shown as follows:

The Configure Colors screen is a standard BMC Defender Server dialog. To edit parameter entries, the user clicks Edit option, modifies the parameter, and then clicks Commit option on the edit screen. You can restore the preset default configuration by clicking on Default option on the edit screen. If Default option is accidentally clicked, you can inspect the previous settings by clicking Back option of the browser.

This screen allows you to edit the color specifications related to the various severity levels. The colors specified here appear in a variety of places, and allow you to rapidly distinguish the severity of messages based upon the message color. Each syslog severity has its own background color and text color.

User defined severity labels

In addition to permitting you to specify the severity of colors, this screen permits you to assign special tags and labels to each severity color, such as Low, Medium, and High. These values appear next to the severity labels, and are useful for identifying severities (along with colors) and working with those systems that might require labeling other than the standard syslog severities (such as, systems that require Homeland Security categories.) You click Edit, and provides a value that appears in the Label column of the edit screen.

Configure Color Screen, special notes

The hex color values are standard HTML color codes, either RRGGBB hex codes or standard names such as red, blue, and green. The text color should normally be selected to provide a high contrast with the text background (hence the text color is quite often either black or white).

Access to this screen is limited to admin type logins. If the current login has user or guest access, then the screen might be viewed, but you are blocked when clicking AddNew or Edit option. Only admin type logins can modify system data.

Before any data is saved or modified it is checked. If the check fails, then you must click back option in order to fix the problem, or click on the tab to restart the edit session.

For this particular screen (because of the vast assortment of valid HTML color specifications) the checks applied to user changes are somewhat superficial, hence you can easily specify undesirable colors. You can click back option to correct this condition, or can click Edit and then Default to restore the installation default colors to the system.