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. In the Command with parameters field, enter parameters.
The interface supports nine parameters. If you enter more than nine, the last parameter appears as
Zero(0) on the Task Results page.
7. (Optional) Enter the Environment variables for the tool and add or delete variables as needed. For
a list of variables available from HP SIM, see “Environment variables for custom tools”.
• (Optional) To delete a specified variable, click Delete.
• (Optional) To add additional variables, click Add.
DOS environment variables are supported in custom tool parameters and work as parameters on the
New Custom Tool page or the Manage Custom Tools page. Unless you use DOS environment
variables in a batch or script file, you must surround them with double percent (%) signs. For example,
to pass in the NOTICELABEL environment variable as a parameter on the parameter line, enter
%%NOTICELABEL%% . If you use DOS environment variables in a batch file or script file, use only a
single percent (%) sign before and after the environment variable name. For a list of other substitutable
environment variables, see “Custom tools reference”.
8. If you can schedule the tool, select Tool can be scheduled.
9. Click OK to add the new 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 procedure
▲ Editing a CMS tool
Related topics
• Custom tools
• Managing custom tools
Creating a web page tool
(Linux and HP-UX systems only) Use this tool to create a tool that integrates a web application or website.
All tools are automatically launched into a separate browser window. For example, to add a path to the HP
website, add the URL: http://hp.com. To add a link to the site on a selected system, add a URL such as:
https://%n:2381. The target system is substituted for the %n when the tool is launched. The resulting command
launches the HP SMH on the target system. This tool creates a temporary XML tool definition file in /var/tmp
and then loads it with the command mxtool –af filename . You only need to enter data into the required
fields.
334 Tools that extend management