HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 80)

Run Now/Schedule
Use to run the tool immediately or to schedule the tool to run (if the tool can be scheduled). If the
tool can be run, the schedule a task page appears. You can schedule when and how often the
tool runs.
Delete
Use to delete a tool. Deleting a tool removes it from the Manage Custom Tools page and from the
system. If a tool is dependent on a task, an alert appears with the list of tasks associated with the
tool.
For information custom tool definition files details, see “Custom tool definition files” (page 189) .
Creating custom tools through the Systems Insight Manager CLI
Systems Insight Manager includes a CLI that allows manual control of Systems Insight Manager
functions. This manual control enables you to create your own customized tools. The CLI is accessible
directly on the CMS or from any network client using
SSH client software. Creating custom tools
manually offers a better understanding of the XML file format and allows greater flexibility in
exercising the options available when creating TDEFs. For more information on custom tool definition
file syntax, see
“Custom tool definition files” (page 189) .
Creating a custom SSA tool
This procedure uses the CLI to create a custom SSA tool for copying any executable file to a
managed system (target system) and having it execute (install) there.
This example illustrates the creation of a custom tool that installs a security patch on every Windows
server managed by Systems Insight Manager. If done manually, the administrator would have to
locate each Windows server and perform the following commands in that server:
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Log on as Administrator
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Access a network drive or portable media containing a copy of the file to be used for the tool
(we will use hpsecurity_patch.exe in this example) and copy that file to the local drive.
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Use Start/Run or a command line prompt to enter the command:
\hpsecurity_patch.exe
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Log off of the system
For this example, it is assumed that the administrator will want to execute this procedure again
and be able to quickly locate it in the Systems Insight Manager menus, so an entry in the Deploy
menu is made and called Software Distributor, which when invoked allows the administrator to
execute this custom tool.
Procedure 13 Creating the Software Distributor tool
1. Log into the CMS using a valid user name and password. Systems Insight Manager grants
authorization based on the operating system login.
NOTE: Only administrators have command line access to Systems Insight Manager on a
Windows CMS. Administrators on a HP-UX/Linux CMS must have root capability.
2. Open a terminal window or a command prompt window to execute Systems Insight Manager
commands.
3. Open a text editor and create a new file by typing the XML version text and tool list tags as
follows:
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