HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

c. In the Help comments field, enter any comments for the application.
d. In the Menu placement field, enter the full path (from the root of the HP SIM console) and the file
name of the application. For example:
c:\custom code\romflash.bat
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Select Copy files to the target systems.
a. (Optional) Click Delete to delete a specified file.
b. (Optional) Click Add to add additional files.
7. 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.
8. Under Command output format, select from the following:
• Standard output
• X-Window
9. 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.
10. Select if the tool can be scheduled.
11. 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
• Editing a remote tool
• Deleting a custom tool
• Viewing tool definition files
Related topics
• Custom tools
• Managing custom tools
Editing a CMS tool
All fields are optional.
Custom tools 331