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Re: [nv-l] Custom Menu Functionality from NV Event List

To: "DiIulio, Daniel" <Daniel.DiIulio@DigitalNet.com>, NetView mailing list <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Custom Menu Functionality from NV Event List
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:52:10 +0000
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Daniel,
I have found that, provided there weren't any errors in my MenuBar.xml and Action.xml files, they appear automatically in the Web Console Security application as options that you can select or deselect for a particular role. I don't think I even needed to bounce any daemons - I believe the Web Console Security application reads all the relevant files.

If you don't see you new options, I would start by checking the modifications again and also check log files.

Cheers,
Jane

DiIulio, Daniel wrote:

Hello All,

In the 7.1.3 for Unix release notes under the section entitled 'Customizing the 
Web Console Menu' outlines the process for adding menu items to the menu bar.  
It provides an example to add two menu items (Ovobjprint and MIB System Group), 
on pg.2.

The steps to accomplish this are pretty straight forward (editing MenuBar.xml 
to add the appropriate lines for both items), which I've done.  I'm struggling 
with Step number 3 'Use the Web Console Security application to add these two 
new actions to the roles that you want to contain them'.  I can't seem to find 
the option for me to do that within the Web Console Security utility.  I can 
add a user, define roles for users, add new roles, etc. - but can't seem to 
find where or how to add a menu item?  I can see the list of options/controls 
(right hand pane) that a user or role has access to for which you can check or 
uncheck to control access.

Is it a question of somehow forcing Netview to re-read the 'MenuBar.xml' file?  
If so, how do I do that?  I've stopped and started all NV services, in addition 
to stopping and restarting Web services but can't seem to get it working, or at 
least it's not apparent to me that a change has taken place.

Also - as I mentioned yesterday, I want to be able to somehow right click en 
event (not an object) to push the event contents out to a flatfile or to a DB 
on a remote server (Remedy, etc.).  Will I be able to accomplish that through 
the Web Console?  If I righ-click on an event, the only option I have is to 
view the details of the event, I want to add to that menu somehow to get it to 
invoke a script that facilitates the push to either a flatfile or DB.

Sorry for the long-winded message, but many thanks in advance for any help.

Kindest regards,

Dan



-----Original Message----- From: James Shanks [mailto:jshanks@us.ibm.com] Sent: Tue 3/11/2003 1:23 PM To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com Cc: Subject: Re: [nv-l] Custom Menu Functionality from NV Event List
        
        

        You are on UNIX, are you not?
        The context menu for events is fixed and has no API.
        However, you can achieve something similar to what you want using the
        Options --> Additional Actions menu.
        There are several  additional actions supplied.
        This allows you to build an underlying script which can be launched by 
the
        user by highlighting one or more events and following through that menu
        path.
        Details on how you pass the event elements to your script are in the man
        page for trapd.conf
        While you could update trapd.conf directly,  the preferred method is to
        use xnmtrap.  That should prevent you from messing up the syntax so 
badly
        that trapd cores trying to read what you put in.   If you bring that up,
        then you'll see a big button on the lower right entitled, "Configure
        Additional Actions . . ."
        
        Have fun
        
        James Shanks
        Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
        Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
        
        
        
        
        "DiIulio, Daniel" <Daniel.DiIulio@DigitalNet.com>
        03/11/2003 12:44 PM
        
        
                To:     "Netview Forum" <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
                cc:
                Subject:        [nv-l] Custom Menu Functionality from NV Event 
List
        
        
        
        Hello Everyone,
        
        Does NV have a method for me to add a customized menu item, i.e.; Tool,
        Script, etc?  Ideally, I'd like to be able to 'right-click' on an event
        within the event list and have the menu item appear as part of a drop 
down
        list of items - giving the end user the option to select the item and
        execute the selection.
        
        I was wondering if anyone out there has attempted something similar, and
        if so, how did you facilitate it?
        
        Many thanks,
        
        Dan
        
        
        
        
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