HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

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• Run scripts at your own risk. The management server lets you run any script including those that
can disable the management server.
• Custom commands only supports executables and scripts that do not use the graphical user
interface.
• (Management Servers on Windows Only) If you leave the Remote Console (cmd /k) open after
running a script, users can traverse the directory structure of the management server.
• If you want a Perl script to run as a custom command on Sun Solaris, you must prefix the script
with the Perl executable, for example, perl myscript.pl, where myscript.pl is the
script you want to run. A best practice is to prefix the script with the path to Perl and the Perl
executable, for example: perl/bin/perl myscript.pl, where perl/bin/ is the
directory containing the Perl executable, perl is the executable and myscript.pl is the
script you want to run.
• If you want a Perl script to run as a custom command on Microsoft Windows, you must prefix
the script name with the complete path to Perl. The management server already has a directory
containing the perl executable inside the folder,
%JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\remoteScripts\perl\bin. You would prefix the
script name as follows:
.\perl\bin\perl myscript.pl
where .\perl\bin\ is the directory containing the Perl executable in the RemoteScripts
directory, perl is the executable and myscript.pl is the script you want to run.
Adding a Custom Command
Use the custom command functionality in the software to run a command you created on the
management server. The command could point to an executable or a script. For example, assume
you have already created a script that backs up a storage system. You could run that script from
System Manager, as described in the following steps.
Keep in mind the following:
• The custom command always runs on the management server unless you are running the telnet
utility. You can obtain information about the element on which you right-clicked by using the
software's environment variables. See the topic, ”Software Environment Variables for Scripting”
on page 294.
• Run scripts at your own risk. The management server lets you run any script including those that
can disable the management server.
• (Management Servers on Windows Only) If you leave the Remote Console (cmd /k) open after
running a script, users can traverse the directory structure of the management server.
• If you want a Perl script to run as a custom command on Sun Solaris, you must prefix the script
name with the Perl executable, for example, perl myscript.pl, where myscript.pl is
the script you want to run. A best practice is to prefix the script name with the path to Perl and
the Perl executable, for example: perl/bin/perl myscript.pl, where perl/bin/ is the
directory containing the Perl executable, perl is the executable and myscript.pl is the
script you want to run.
• If you want a Perl script to run as a custom command on Microsoft Windows, you must prefix
the script name with the complete path to perl. The management server already has a directory
containing the perl executable inside the folder,