The Color Filter Configuration allows you to assign background and text colors to events in the Sentinel Control Center based on filter criteria. The background and text colors assigned to a filter apply to all Sentinel tables, including active views, event tables associated with Incidents, offline queries and historical event queries.
On applying a color filter, all the event tables are updated.
The Color Filter GUI displays a listing of all the color filters that are defined in the order in which they should be applied. If an event meets the criteria for more than one of the color filters, the topmost color filter configuration will be applied. For example, the following filter configurations are created and attached to color filter configuration:
Color filter configuration 1: sev=2 (with background color red and text color yellow)
Color filter configuration 2: sev>1 (with background color white and text color black)
Any event with severity=2 will meet the criteria for both color filters, but since the sev=2 color filter configuration is at the top, all the events with sev=2 will be coded as per color filter configuration 1. All the other events with sev>1 (For example, sev=3, 4, 5 and so on) will follow color filter configuration 2.
To add a color filter:
Click Color Filter Configuration in the navigation pane or click the Color Filter Configuration button.
Click Add. A new Color Filter Configuration row will be created as shown below.
Click Filter Name drop down list. The Filter Selection window displays.
From the list, select a filter to which you want to apply the color filter configuration and click Select or click Add to create a new filter. For more information on configuring filters, see "Configuring Public and Private Filters".
In the Color Filter Configuration window click Text Color. The Pick a Color window displays. Select a color from the Swatches Tab. Alternatively, click HSB or RGB tab and enter the HSB or RGB color value in the respective tab. Click OK.
In the Color Filter Configuration window, click Background Color. The Pick a Color window displays. Select a color from the Swatches Tab. Alternatively, click HSB or RGB tab and enter HSB or RGB color value in the respective tab. Click OK.
Click Save.
NOTE: The order of the color filter configuration row in the Color Filter Configuration window matters. In the case where more than one color filter definition applies to an event, the formatting for the topmost color filter takes precedence.
To delete a color filter:
Click Color Filter Configuration in the navigation pane.
Select a Color Filter Configuration row and click Delete.
To set priority for a color filter:
Click Color Filter Configuration in the navigation pane or click the Color Filter Configuration button.
Select a color filter configuration row.
Click Up or Down button to set the priority.
NOTE: The Up and Down button will be active only when there is more than one color filter configuration row available in the Color Filter Configuration window.