A registration file puts things on the menu. It has a place to specify
selection
criteria for which the menu-pick would be enabled. You specify the
command, which
would be an invocation of the browser, or some script that calls the
browser, with
parameters. The Selection Name of the selected node is available to the
registration
file as a variable. The Selection Name is the resolved hostname of the
node, if it is
resolved (/etc/hosts or DNS), or it is the ip address by which Netview
first found the
node, if it is not resolved. So the user would select a node on the map,
then pick
the new menu option, and the browser would be launched for that device's
home
page. I do not personally know the syntax for launching a browser with a
url on the
commandline, but that is what is needed and should be straight-forward.
This kind of customization is often provided by vendors of device-specific
management appliations that run on top of Netview or other platforms. As
Phil points out, CiscoView does this, and Nways does this. Others may as
well,
and if they don't, you can add it easily enough.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Dear Leslie,
thank's for your help.
For the application, you are talking about a registration file.
Is this file generic to a family of devices or to a specific device that
has
to be indicated?
is the IP address of the device passed in parameter?
Thank's.
-Youcef
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