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Related procedure

▲ Creating a new CMS tool

Related topics

• Custom tools

• Managing custom tools

Examples of using parameter strings in custom tools

The URL strings for Web aware tools and command line tools must be provided as absolute URLs beginning

with http:// or https://. For example,

https://%n:1188/kcweb/ https://%l:2381/

Web-launch aware tools and command line tools that always run on the

Central Management Server

(CMS)

must be relative URLs beginning with /. For example,

/propertypages/Identify.jsp?device=%n

Multiple selections can be substituted into the URL. A selection index is used during the substitution process

to keep track of the

current

selection. The selection index is initially set to one, and the first selection of the

list of selected target systems remains current until a

parameter is encountered in the URL (an exception

to this exists in the repeat block, discussed later), at which time the next selection becomes current, the

selection index is incremented by one, and so on. For example,

http://server/app/doit.jsp?name=%n%z&addr=%a

where the doit.jsp page is invoked with the network name of the first selected system assigned to the

name

parameter and the IP address of the second selected target assigned to the

addr

parameter.

Any number of selected targets can be substituted by using the repeat block construct,

%( ... %)

. Anything

inside the repeat block delimiters is repeated until the selection list is exhausted, starting with what is then

the current selection and selection index. For example,

https://%{deploy.server%}/deploy/deployimage.jsp? device1=%n%z%(&device%i=%n%z%)

NOTE: The use of the

parameter. The current selection index (1,2,3,and so on) is substituted for this

parameter during the substitution process.

NOTE: If the end of the repetition clause is reached and no

parameter has been encountered, then the

selection index and current election are automatically incremented to avoid an infinite loop during the

substitution phase.

If we have two selected target systems in the above example, the expanded URL string would look like:

https://deploy.hp.com:280/deploy/deployimage.jsp?

device1=nodea.hp.com&device2=nodeb.hp.com

If we have only 1 selected target system in the above example, the expanded URL string would look like:

https://deploy.hp.com:280/deploy/deployimage.jsp? device1=nodea.hp.com

Because there is no current selection when we get to the repeat block, the entire repeat block is suppressed

during the substitution process.

Related procedures

• Creating a new remote tool

• Creating a new CMS tool

• Creating a new web page tool

• Removing and restoring custom tools