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The OS column displays the first 40 characters of the operating system name with an ellipse at the end
of the name if the name is more than 40 characters long. Place your cursor over the name to display
the entire operating system name.
2.
To add targets, select a group from the dropdown list. The contents of the selected group appear and
can be selected as targets. To select the entire collection, select Select "name of collection"
itself
.
Note: Selecting Select "name of collection" itself results in better performance overall when
running the task on all systems in the collection.
3.
Click Apply. The targets appear in the Verify Target Systems page.
Note: If any selected targets are not compatible with the tool, the Tool Launch OK? column provides
a brief explanation of the problem.
To remove a target, select the target’s checkbox, and then click Remove Targets.
4.
To filter the target selections, click Add Event Filter. You can add one attribute-driven event filter. Event
collections and individual events cannot be used as an event filter.
a.
Select an event filter from the Add filters by selecting from dropdown box. If you do not select
an attribute-driven event collection, an error message appears.
b.
Click Apply to apply the filter to the target systems. The Filtered by table appears below the list
of selected target systems. Or, click Cancel to cancel adding a filter.
Note: If the target selections are events instead of systems, the button is changed to Add System
Filter
and you can select from different system collections. Unlike event filters, you can select multiple
system filters.
5.
To modify an event filter, select the filter and click Modify Event Filter.
a.
Select an event filter from the Add filters by selecting from dropdown box. If you do not select
an attribute-driven event collection, an error message appears.
b.
Click Apply to change the event filter and apply the filter to the target systems, or click Cancel to
cancel editing the filter.
Note: If the target selections are events instead of systems, the button does not change to Modify
System Filter
. It is possible to have one or more system and event combination collection already
selected. If there are combination collections selected, they will provide filtering.
6.
To remove a filter, select the filter and click Remove Filters.
7.
Click Next and specify tool parameters. If the tool does not require any parameters, Next is replaced
with Schedule and Run Now. The Schedule option is only present if the tool can be scheduled.
8.
Select one of the following options:
•
Click Previous to return to the previous screen.
•
Click Schedule to schedule when the task should run. See
for more information
about scheduling options.
•
Click Run Now to run the task immediately.
Command line interface
Use the mxexec command to execute tools immediately and the mxtask command to schedule tasks for
later. Perform this task from the
(CLI). For assistance with this command, see the
HP-UX or Linux manpage by entering man mxexec at the command line or see the Windows command
line help. See
“Using command line interface commands”
for information on accessing the manpage.
Default tools
•
Cluster Monitor
See
for more information.
•
Command Line Tools
See
for more information.
•
Contract and Warranty Data Collection
See
“Viewing contract and warranty information”
for more
information.
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