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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Removing and Restoring Tools

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Cluster Monitor
»Command Line Tools
»Creating New Command Line Tools
»Custom Commands
»Configuring DMI Access
»Configuring SNMP Access
»Device Ping
»Disk Thresholds
»License Manager
»Management Processor Tools
»Managing MIBs
»Installing OpenSSH
»PMP Tools
Removing and Restoring Tools
»Replicate Agent Settings
»RPM Package Manager
»Server Migration Pack
»System Management Homepage
»System Page
»Version Control
»Virtual Machine Management Pack
»WBEM Based Tools
»Available MSA Tools
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Removing a Tool
» Restoring a Tool
» Related Procedures
» Related Topics

Removing a Tool

The Remove a Tool tool, removes a tool from the menu for all users in HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). The tool name must match the name in the tool definition file.

This tool can remove any tool, including tools supplied by HP.

To remove a tool from HP SIM:

  1. Select OptionsRemove a Tool. The Remove a Tool page appears.

  2. Under Parameters, add information using the standard tool parameters. Tool name is the only required field.

  3. Click [Run Now] to run the task immediately or [Schedule] to schedule when the task runs. Refer to Managing with Tasks - Scheduling a Task for more information on scheduling a task.

To remove tools using the command line, enter

mxtool -r -t badtool

where badtool is the name of the tool you want to delete. Refer to mxtool(1M) for more information.

Restoring a Tool

To restore a tool using the command line, enter:

mxtool -a -f /home/user1/defs/mytooldef

where /home/user1/defs/ is the folder of the user restoring the tool and mytooldef is the tool to be restored. Refer to mxtool(1M) for more information.

Related Procedures

» Creating New Command Line Tools - New Command Line Tool
» Creating New Command Line Tools - New Copy a File Tool
» Custom Commands - New Web Launch Tool
» Creating New Command Line Tools - New X Window Tool

Related Topics

» Tools that Extend Management - Command Line Tools
» Creating New Command Line Tools - Command Line Tools Reference