IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Customizing graph icons

All graphs in the Visualizer use predefined icons to represent entities and the types of attributes, such as addresses, and numbers. You can customize the icons that display on Visualizer graphs or specify an icon to use for a new attribute type.

Before you begin
Keep in mind the following constraints before customizing Visualizer graph icons:
  • Custom icons reside on the application server. Only users with administrative privileges to the application server can add or change custom graph icons. All Visualizer clients based on that application server use the same icon set, so the change you make affects which icons display on Visualizer graphs for each of those clients.
  • Save custom icons to a separate icons folder on the application server. Installing a new *.EAR file for the Visualizer removes all custom graph icons. After installing a new Visualizer *.EAR file, you can copy the custom graph icons from the icons folder to the designated application server icons folder.
  • Icons must be in .GIF format. The recommended size for the image is 24 x 24 pixels.
  • The names of the icons must match their corresponding attribute type, in lowercase only. For example, if you add a new attribute type called "Evidence Photo", the file must be named "evidence photo.gif" for the Visualizer to recognize the custom evidence photo. Notice in this example, both the attribute type name and the icon file name contain a space.
About this task
Default Visualizer icon image files are stored on the application server, typically in a folder called images.
  1. Stop the application server.
  2. On the application server, find the default Visualizer graph icon folder. Typically, this folder is located at IBM Infosphere Identity Insight application server install_path/ was_apps/ibm-is-ii-visualizer.ear/eas-visualizer-client.war/images.
  3. Create a folder named graph under the default Visualizer graph icon folder (the /images folder) for your custom graph icon image files.
    Note: The folder name must be named graph.
  4. Save, copy, or move each icon image file to the new folder.
Example
If you created an attribute type named FINGERPRINT_FILE and you wanted a custom graph icon to represent that attribute type on the Visualizer graphs, take the following steps:
  1. Create or obtain a suitable .GIF image file that is 24 x 24 pixels to represent the FINGERPRINT_FILE attribute type. Make sure that the image file name matches the attribute type name and uses all lowercase letters, like this file name: fingerprint_file.gif
  2. On the IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight application server, locate the images folder. For this example, the images folder is located here: IBM-II_install/ was_apps/ibm-is-ii-visualizer.ear/eas-visualizer-client.war/images.
  3. Under the images folder, create a folder, named graph. So the file path looks like this path: IBM-II_install/ was_apps/ibm-is-ii-visualizer.ear/eas-visualizer-client.war/images/graph
  4. Copy the fingerprint_file.gif image icon into the graph folder.
What to do next
Restart the application server.


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