Users Guide

External Executable | Actions and Adaptive CLI
582 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
External Executable
External executable Adaptive CLIs essentially run external scripts from the OpenManage Network
Manager environment. For example, you could run the DOS
dir command (and schedule its
execution). Make sure you select External Command as the Type of Adaptive CLI in the editor
when you create an Adaptive CLI that refers to an external command. Also, make sure the
Net::Telnet package is installed with Perl.
NOTE:
To run targetless external commands In a distributed environment, you must add the current application
server's IP address to a mediation partition's routing entry. The external command runs at one of
mediation servers that belongs to that mediation partition. Any external scripts must exist on all
mediation servers within that mediation partition, and the directory path must be the same. Best practice
is to use a shared network drive (or cloud) whenever you need to access files from multiple servers.
You can execute external commands with a device as target, using device attributes as input
parameters to the Adaptive CLI script. See some of the
Seeded External Scripts on page 584.
Audit Trail
When you execute a script, the audit screen displays information about it.
By default, this screen often conceals the
info circles in this screen. To see them, click the icon next
to the refresh icon to open the message level selector and check the
info circle level of reporting,
then click
Refresh to see those blue circles.