Instruction Manual

Removing and restoring custom tools
Removing a tool
The Remove a Tool tool, removes a tool from the menu for all users in HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).
The tool name must match the name in the tool definition file.
WARNING! This tool can remove any tool, including tools supplied by HP.
To remove a tool from HP SIM:
1. Select Options→Remove a Tool. The Remove a Tool page appears.
2. Under Parameters, add information using the standard tool parameters. Tool name is the only required
field.
3. Click Run Now to run the task immediately, or click Schedule to schedule when the task runs. See
“Scheduling a task” for more information on scheduling a task.
To remove tools using the command line, enter
mxtool -r -t badtool
where badtool is the name of the tool you want to delete. See mxtool(1M) for more information.
Restoring a tool
To restore a tool using the command line, enter:
mxtool -a -f /home/user1/defs/mytooldef
where /home/user1/defs/ is the folder of the user restoring the tool and mytooldef is the tool to be
restored. See mxtool(1M) for more information.
Related topics
• Custom tools
• Custom tools reference
Environment variables for custom tools
NOTE: If your user-defined variables have the same names as the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
environment variables, the HP SIM environment variables override the user-defined variables.
NOTICELABEL . Type of notice; a small string that contains discovered system, other HP SIM server-level
notices, or the type of trap that caused the notice
NOTICESTATE . Internal value used by HP SIM, indicating whether the notice is cleared
NOTICEPLAINTEXT . Plain text description of the notice that contains detailed information about the notice
(In Progress, Cleared, or Not Cleared)
NOTICERAWDATA . The raw data from the notice is passed as a string; this is a small pipe (|) delimited set
of variables and might be useful for some simple parsing rules
NOTICESEVERITYSTR . Verbose description of the notice severity that can be one of Critical, Informational,
Major, Minor, Unknown, Warning, and Normal
NOTICESEVERITY . Integer value of the NOTICESEVERITYSTR that can be one of:
• 0, Unknown
• 1, Normal
• 2, Warning
• 3, Minor
• 4, Major
• 5, Critical
• 100, Informational
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