HP Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 User's Guide

Getting Started with SCM

Getting Started Administering SCM

Chapter 3

Getting Started Administering SCM

Get started administering SCM by familiarizing yourself with how to add a tool. To

administer SCM, you must be a trusted user.

This procedure walks you through adding a custom tool and executing the tool from the

command line interface and the graphical user interface.

To get started administering SCM:

Step 1. Log on to the central management server (CMS) as a trusted user.

Step 2. Create a XML tool definition file for a new command tool.

a. Open a text editor and paste the following tool definition file example into the file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<tool-list>

<ssa-command-tool name="Test Find tmp">

<category>General Tools</category>

<description>Find all the tmp directory and files</description>

<comment> Example Tool </comment>

<include-filter type="os">

<node-filter name="OSName" operator="eq" value="HPUX"/>

</include-filter>

<include-filter type="os">

<node-filter name="OSName" operator="eq" value="LINUX"/>

</include-filter>

<ssa-block>

find / -name tmp</command>

</ssa-block>

</ssa-command-tool>

b. Replace tmp with mx.

There are three instances that need to be changed.

Step 3. Save the tool definition file as testtool.xml.

Step 4. Copy the tool definition file to:

/var/opt/mx/tools

Step 5. Add the tool to SCM:

mxtool -a -f testtool.xml

Step 6. Execute the tool to test it:

mxexec -t "Test Find mx" -n node

where node is the hostname of an authorized target node.

Step 7. Log on to the SCM graphical user interface.

a. Open a Web browser on any network client that is connected to your company

intranet.