Ray,
No you can't. Xnmappmon allows only 1 input variable.
A hack around this would be to prompt for the hostname and count using the
following syntax: <hostname>_<count>, e.g. host_3.
In your script you would have the lines:
echo $1 | sed 's/_/ /g' | read HOST COUNT
ping -c $COUNT $HOST
This assumes you don't use underscores in your hostnames.
HTH,
Bernard
At 12:32 02-03-2001 -0600, you wrote:
>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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