HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

1. Select Tools→Custom Tools→New Custom Tool. The New Custom Tool page appears.

2. Select Web page tool.

3. Click Next. The Describe how the new custom tool will work page appears with the tool type and

description displayed.

4. Under Tool Parameters, enter the following information:

a. In the Name field, enter the command name. Custom tool names must be at least one character,

and no more than 255 characters in length. The first character of the name must be alphabetic.

Subsequent characters can be letters, digits, spaces, or any of the following: "-", ".", "(", ")" or

"_".

b. In the Description field, enter the information for the tool.

c. In the Help comments field, enter comments for the tool.

d. In the Menu placement field, enter the full path (from the root of the HP SIM console) and the file

name of the tool (for example, c:\custom code\romflash.bat).

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 the tool can select when creating the task. Select from the

following:

• None If you select None, the target selection page does not appear.

• One If you select One, the target selection page does not appear.

• Unlimited If you select Unlimited, the tool can abe run on multiple target systems.

7. Enter the URL to the site or application to launch.

8. Enter the format of how target systems are passed to the URL.

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 procedures

• Creating a remote tool

• Creating a CMS tool