HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Removing and restoring custom tools

Remove a Tool removes a tool from the menu for all users in HP SIM. The tool name must match

the name in the tool definition file.

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

Procedure 245 Removing a tool from HP SIM

1. Under Parameters, add information using standard tool parameters. Tool name is the only

required field.

2. Click Run Now to run the task immediately, or click Schedule to schedule when the task runs.

For more information about scheduling a task, see Scheduling a task.

To remove tools using the command line, enter

mxtool -r -t badtool

Replace badtool with the name of the tool you want to delete. For more information, see the

mxtool command in the HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Command Line Interface Guide, at http://

www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs.

Restoring a tool

To restore a tool using the command line, enter:

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

Replace /home/user1/defs/ with the folder of the user restoring the tool and mytooldef with

the tool to be restored. For more information, see the mxtool command in the HP Systems Insight

Manager 7.2 Command Line Interface Guide, at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/

sim/docs.

Related information

Related procedures

Creating a CMS tool

Editing a CMS tool

Creating a remote tool

Editing a remote tool

Creating a web page tool

Editing a web page tool

Removing and restoring custom tools

Deleting a custom tool

Viewing a tool definition