HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

5. Specify the user account on the target system by selecting one of the following options:
• Logged-in user The tool uses the user account that is logged in.
• Special user For UNIX and Linux systems, root; for Windows systems, Administrator. The tool
does not run on targets with an unknown operating system.
• Specific user The tool uses the specified user account.
6. Specify the maximum number of targets that the tool can select when creating the task by selecting from
the following:
• None If you select None, the target selection page does not appear.
• One If you select One, the tool runs on only one target system.
• Unlimited If you select Unlimited, the tool can run on multiple target systems.
7. Select Copy files to the target systems.
a. (Optional) To delete a specified file, select a file and click Delete.
b. (Optional) To add additional files, click Add.
8. In the Command with parameters field, enter parameters.
The interface supports nine parameters. If you enter more than nine parameters, the last parameter
appears as Zero(0) on the Task Results page.
9. Under Command output format, select from the following:
• Standard output
• X-Window
10. To prompt the user for input when they choose this tool to be run or scheduled, enter up to 10 labels
that can be used to ask for input. You can use the substitution parameters %1 through %10 in your
command line to access the values they enter.
a. (Optional) To require the user to enter data, select Required (user must enter data).
b. (Optional) To mask the user input, select Private (masks the data with *).
11. Select if the tool can be scheduled.
12. Click OK to add the tool to the Custom Tools menu and access the Manage Custom Tools page,
or click Previous to return to the previous page to select another type of custom tool.
NOTE: New custom tool tools are located under Tools→Custom Tools.
Related procedures
• Creating a CMS tool
• Creating a web page tool
• Managing custom tools
Related topic
▲ Custom tools
Creating a CMS tool
A CMS tool usually runs on the CMS and is usually a script or batch file that can pass environment variables.
Using automatic event handling, you can configure this tool to run when specific events are received. This
tool can be scheduled and is selected by default when you access the New Custom Tool page. For more
information about automatic event handling, see “Events”. For more information about the environment
variables that can be passed, see “Environment variables for custom tools”. In previous releases of HP SIM,
CMS tools were called custom tools.
332 Tools that extend management