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Commands

Commands Manager

Correlated notifications can trigger external scripts. These script commands can even have

parameters that come from values in the Notification’s attributes, or other assigned constants. To

see available script commands, you must open the script Commands screen.

Figure 26-1. Commands screen

Access this Commands screen from the Navigation pane. The manager lists available script

commands. You can create, edit and delete script commands with the

Action

or context menu on

this manager. Here are those menu commands:

New

—Opens the Command Editor, through which you can define a new command. See

Command Editor on page 728 for more information about the Action Editor.

Open

—Opens the selected command for modification. See Command Editor on page 728 for

more information.

Delete

—Deletes the selected command. Select the command to remove and click

Delete

. The

application prompts you for confirmation.

Execute

—If you configure an action with the

Execute Manually

checkbox checked, this menu

item controls that manual execution.

CAUTION:

Executing scripts that refer to additional software—for example, Perl scripts—requires that software be

installed on the application / mediation server before attempting to execute the script. See the

Administration Section for more about Perl.