HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP OpenView Vantagepoint – Operation Manual for UNIX User Manual

Using the Integration Capabilities of the VPO Motif-based GUI

VPO applications are those that are integrated directly into VPO rather
than by way of NNM. For these applications you can:

❏ Invoke them on the VPO management server and on all VPO

managed nodes that are configured as VPO controlled nodes.

❏ Invoke them on several nodes in parallel.
❏ Change the list of target nodes, by selecting different nodes in the

Managed Nodes window.

❏ Customize the start-up defaults. You can modify the following

attributes:

• List of target nodes

• Command parameters

• User ID to use for execution

• User’s password

❏ Allow the retrieval of the list of selected nodes using the reserved

variable $OPC_NODES.

❏ Do not have or make use of OV Application Registration Files (ARFs)

You can modify the configuration of a VPO application in the
Add/Modify VPO Application

 window. You can test the application

immediately after configuration, and add parameters to the application
that may or may not be altered by the operator.

The way a VPO application makes use of windows can be used to further
classify VPO applications:

No Window

X applications e.g. npuix,
xomniback, or when output
is not of interest

No

Output Only Window

ps(1), lpstat(1), df(1)

No

Input/Output Window

sam, vi, more, npui, ftp,
nslookup

Yes