Adding new tool to SIM hint...

[Gary Williams_6]

Hi,

I wanted to add a tool/command to be able to telnet onto switches and printers. Has anyone got any hints on the contents of the xml file you need to create for calling a windows .exe file.

Thanks,

Gary.

[David Claypool]

Gary:

There is a forum at http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=495 for the exchange of tools and scripts, although there are not many there as of yet. In addition to the documentation, there are many useful examples of tools already included that you can find in the TOOLS directory of your installation.

hpSIM can invoke a tool at the central management server or at a managed node. If what you're trying to do is invoke an executable at your browser, hpSIM has no way of vectoring to the client browser's location (and this would also require SSH to be present there). If you are physically sitting at the CMS using a browser, all you would need would be to invoke your telnet using the command line tool creator.

The only way I can think of to accomplish what you want would be to create a web page, host it in IIS, and use scripting in the web page (Javascript or VBscript) to invoke an executable from the client browser. Use the Terminal Services Web Client example from the link above to the other forum for an example of invoking a browser session to an IIS instance.