Launching an application using a custom tool

[Daniel Buttery]

Hi! Hopefully an obvious one here...

I'm running HP SIM 5.0 on a Windows 2003 box, and I would like to launch a custom command on the SIM box when a certain event is received (code at the bottom). I want this tool to run an exe that actually appears on the console of the SIM machine - as a test I'm running notepad.exe . Checking task manager shows that the exe is actually running but you don't see it on the console. Is there a way to force the exe to run within the current logged in users shell??

Thanks!

Dan

[David Claypool]

By default, I don't believe the HP SIM service has the option allowing interaction with the desktop enabled. You do also realize that this would only appear on the CMS display and would not be visible to any of the users logged in remotely with a browser?

[Daniel Buttery]

Yeah I get that - the idea would be that it could, perhaps, receive an urgent trap from a known critical server, and then launch an exe that filled the screen saying 'no, really, look check out this alert' etc etc. Ofcourse another way could be to get the exe to effectively run another exe on a different machine using psexec or something similar - but wanted to see if that interaction was available on the server itself (or, I guess, a target server if thats where you chose to tell SIM to run it on).

[Daniel Buttery]

Oops, just incase it isn't obvious, yes this would be implemented on a system that is always logged in and with the display visible. My bad!