Thanks Bernard!
It works wonderfully. I actually used $1 for the script as in ping $1.
Do you think there is a way to use xnmappmon to prompt the users for two
variables. So I can ask them for a host name and a count. ie. ping -c $COUNT
$NAME or ping -c $1 $2
Thanks again.
Ray.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Disselborg [mailto:bdisselb@triple-p.nl]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 1:57 AM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] xnmappmon How-To question.
Ray,
There is. See the following lines:
(...)
unset OVwSessionLoc # We don't use NetView map selections
(...)
#
# Start dialog box
xnmappmon -commandTitle "Select & Test Location"\
-commandHeading "Please enter Name or IP Adress..."\
-appendSelectList -appendSelectListToTitle\
-unbufIO -cmd ${CMD}
(...)
HTH
Bernard
At 12:26 01-03-2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I work with a NetView 6.0.1 server running on AIX 4.3.3.
>
>My Network Operations users have requested the ability to ping a device
from
>the Test menu within NetView. They watch the map all day and they notice
>when new devices are not found by netmon. They want to be able to ping for
>some count and snmp get (like netcheck) a device that does not yet exist on
>the map or in the object database. In this way we think we can coax NetView
>into discovering the object.
>
>I've written a script the prompts the user for an IP address, etc. and then
>opens an xterm with the results. It works just fine from the application I
>added to the Test menu on the NetView toolbar. I'd like to use xnmappmon to
>prompt the user. However, it seems as though it is designed to be used with
>objects that are already on the map.
>
>How I can use xnmappmon to open a dialog box for the user to enter the IP
>address or host name? Is there a NetView shell environment variable I can
>pass to my script?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Ray Westphal
>Enterprise Rent-A-Car
>
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