HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

5. Specify the user account on the target system that will be used for the tool. Select one of the following
options:
• Logged-in user Execution of the tool will be whatever user is logged in.
• Special user ("root" for UNIX and Linux systems, "Administrator" for Windows systems) Execution
of the tool will substitute Administrator for targets running Windows and root targets with targets
running Linux and HP-UX. The tool will not run on targets with an unknown operating system.
• Specific user Execution of the tool will be under 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 none is selected, the target selection page is not displayed.
• One If one is selected, the execution of the tool will be on only one target system.
• Unlimited If unlimited is selected, the tool can be executed multiple target systems.
7. Select Copy files to the target systems.
a. (Optional) Click Delete to delete a specified file.
b. (Optional) Click Add to add additional files.
8. Enter the Command with parameters field.
Note: The UI supports only nine parameters. If you enter more than nine parameters, the last parameter
is displayed 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 at the time 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, %2, through %10
in your command line to access the values they enter.
a. (Optional) Select Required (user must enter data) to require the user to enter data.
b. (Optional) Select Private (masks the data with *) to mask the user input.
11. Select if the tool can be scheduled.
12. 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 new CMS tool
• Creating a new web page tool
• Managing custom tools
Related topic
▲ Custom tools
Creating a new CMS tool
A CMS tool usually runs on the Central Management Server (CMS) and is usually a script or batch file that
can pass environment variables. Using automatic event handling, this tool can optionally be configured to
run when specific events are received. This tool can be scheduled and is selected by default when accessing
the New Custom Tool page. See “Events” for more information about automatic event handling. See
“Environment variables for custom tools” for more information about the environment variables that can be
passed. In previous releases of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), CMS tools were called custom tools.
326 Tools that extend management