Re: [SAGE] Color identifiers and products like Nagios ...

[Doug Hughes <doug@eng.auburn.edu>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Fuat Baran wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Jennifer Davis wrote:
>
> >
> > So reading about the planned changes with Firefox, Opera, Konqueror,
> > and IE7 (reference
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21/495507.aspx).. especially
> > the idea of color coded address bar to report phishing and other
> > possible negative aspects to a potential website, and then reading
> > some of the comments about color-blindness, and poor color choices, I
> > wondered about the use in monitoring tools like nagios.
> >
> > Is the standard "red" - critical state, "yellow" - warning state, and
> > "green" - good/normal state good indicators for monitoring.  I
> > understand that there is an associated value with those colors, but is
> > that American-centric?
> >
> > If you were designing a brand new, from scratch tool/application for
> > system administrators .. would you follow the standard red, yellow,
> > green rules?  If not, why not?
> >
> > In part, I'm wondering about the information one would want to convey
> > to the rest of the people in an organization outside of the IT
> > department, who don't necessarily want to understand the technical
> > aspects but want to understand how/if they are affected.  (not wanting
> > people to attribute their possible experience with an announced
> > problem, but also not wanting to have to repeat multiple times with
> > updates to different people)
> >
> > Jennifer
> >
> >
> For network management there is the ITU-T X.733 document (Information
> technology-Open Systems Interconnection-Systems Management: Alarm
> reporting function).
>
> They define the states as indeterminate, critical, major, minor, and
> warning.  I think (but can't confirm since I don't have a copy of the
> document handy) they define corresponding colors purple, red, orange,
> yellow and blue respectively.
>

That would be consistent with how Netcool reports alarms with the
ommission of Clear = Green

	Doug