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10-27-2005 05:58 AM
10-27-2005 05:58 AM
basic question - where is docs on sim scripting?
I know that creating new commands such as the one on displaying system uptime or TS to the server is possible.
However the documentation I have been able to find on creating new commands specifically says it can't be done on Windows http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/sys-book_5.pdf
Can someone point me to some documentation on how to actually do it, i.e. what folder to put the files in, how to get SIM to recognize them, etc.
However the documentation I have been able to find on creating new commands specifically says it can't be done on Windows http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/sys-book_5.pdf
Can someone point me to some documentation on how to actually do it, i.e. what folder to put the files in, how to get SIM to recognize them, etc.
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10-27-2005 11:42 AM
10-27-2005 11:42 AM
Re: basic question - where is docs on sim scripting?
There is a scripting whitepaper in the works; we got a little delayed by resources needed recently for HP Tech Forum.
HP SIM is extensible through tool definitions, commonly called TDEFs, which have an XML syntax. There are 3 major kind of TDEFs, web launch tools, single-system-aware tools (unintuitively, this means that HP SIM distributes the task to one or more system and the task is performed at that(those) system(s) and the task itself doesn't involve others, although HP SIM can aggregate the results and display what happened across the systems; these are also called Command Line Tools), and multi-system-aware tools (also called 'custom commands' these execute on the HP SIM server and take targets as an argument, iterating through each one if multiple targets are selected).
HP SIM 5 has a little bit of a wizard for these custom commands, 'New Custom Command.'
The reference to Linux in the URL above is due to the fact that the Linux version of HP SIM has in addition to 'New Custom Command' as a wizard, the advanced scripting available on a Linux shell let us create a Command Line Tool wizard. We had a resource who knew Linux scripting, and, yes, we could have done something similar with Windows Scripting Host but we didn't have a resource.
There are some goodies in the TDEF capabilities, but keep this in mind: complex operations and logic constructs are going to require an external scripting engine of some sort (bash/Bourne shell, Perl, Windows Scripting Host, etc). The majority of a TDEF is really a definition for HP SIM about how to call something.
In the meantime you can do a little reverse engineering on some scripts published by Scott Shaffer in this forum and you also can use the mxtool command to extract the existing TDEFs that are in HP SIM. Don't forget that the WebJet Admin TDEF is a good example of a web-launch tool.
I'll post a notice in this forum when the whitepaper is published.
HP SIM is extensible through tool definitions, commonly called TDEFs, which have an XML syntax. There are 3 major kind of TDEFs, web launch tools, single-system-aware tools (unintuitively, this means that HP SIM distributes the task to one or more system and the task is performed at that(those) system(s) and the task itself doesn't involve others, although HP SIM can aggregate the results and display what happened across the systems; these are also called Command Line Tools), and multi-system-aware tools (also called 'custom commands' these execute on the HP SIM server and take targets as an argument, iterating through each one if multiple targets are selected).
HP SIM 5 has a little bit of a wizard for these custom commands, 'New Custom Command.'
The reference to Linux in the URL above is due to the fact that the Linux version of HP SIM has in addition to 'New Custom Command' as a wizard, the advanced scripting available on a Linux shell let us create a Command Line Tool wizard. We had a resource who knew Linux scripting, and, yes, we could have done something similar with Windows Scripting Host but we didn't have a resource.
There are some goodies in the TDEF capabilities, but keep this in mind: complex operations and logic constructs are going to require an external scripting engine of some sort (bash/Bourne shell, Perl, Windows Scripting Host, etc). The majority of a TDEF is really a definition for HP SIM about how to call something.
In the meantime you can do a little reverse engineering on some scripts published by Scott Shaffer in this forum and you also can use the mxtool command to extract the existing TDEFs that are in HP SIM. Don't forget that the WebJet Admin TDEF is a good example of a web-launch tool.
I'll post a notice in this forum when the whitepaper is published.
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02-02-2006 07:05 AM
02-02-2006 07:05 AM
Re: basic question - where is docs on sim scripting?
Bumped to be above moved questions...
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