Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

3.12.2 Tool Launcher

From the Tool Launcher window in JP1/IM - View, you can launch windows of products in the JP1 series and many other applications. The Tool Launcher window lists the application functions that are linked with JP1/IM, allowing the windows of the appropriate application to be launched directly from the listing.

You can launch the following two types of windows from JP1/IM - View:

Windows of applications on the viewer

You can launch and view the windows of any linked application installed on the same machine as JP1/IM - View.

Web pages

You can view the Web pages provided by any linked application in the system. Your Web browser starts with the required Web page. To view a Web page from the Tool Launcher, you must set the Web page's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in advance.

A number of applications linked with JP1/IM are pre-registered in the Tool Launcher. For details, see 7.3.2 Functions that can be operated from the Tool Launcher window in the Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Administration Guide.

If the application you want to register in the Tool Launcher is not mentioned in the above manual, see the documentation for that product. For example, the JP1/PFM manual explains how to register JP1/PFM functionality in the Tool Launcher.

JP1/PFM: See the description of JP1/IM linkage in the Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management Planning and Configuration Guide.

You can add and change the applications that can be displayed in the Tool Launcher window by customizing a JP1/IM definition file. For an overview and detailed description of how to customize the settings, see 4.13 Setting the Tool Launcher window in the Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Configuration Guide.

Note

The authentication information in JP1/IM - View is accessed when a user opens a window of any of the following linked products from the Tool Launcher:

JP1/IM - Rule Operation

JP1/AJS - View

JP1/AJS2 - Scenario Operation View

JP1/AJS2 - View for Mainframe

Note that JP1/IM - View authentication information is invalidated in the following cases:

The authentication server that the user is logged in to is restarted.

The information is reloaded by the jbs_spmd_reload command on the authentication server that the user is logged in to.

The primary authentication server that the user is logged in to is switched to the secondary authentication server.

When the authentication information in JP1/IM - View is invalid, the operations that can be performed depend on the product versions, as follows:

When JP1/IM - Manager and JP1/IM - View are both version 09-00 or later, the JP1/IM - View user is automatically re-authenticated and authentication information is re-acquired.

When either JP1/IM - Manager or JP1/IM - View is earlier than version 08-01, authentication fails on the linked product side.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Overview of adding items to the Tool Launcher window

(2) Prerequisites

(1) Overview of adding items to the Tool Launcher window

The Tool Launcher window of JP1/IM - View lists the programs linked with JP1/IM. From the Tool Launcher, you can launch another management application program or open a Web page.

By customizing a JP1/IM - View definition file, you can add a new item to the Tool Launcher window. As the window to open from the new item, you can specify the following:

User-specified application window
Specify the executable file of the application.

Web page
Specify the URL of the Web page you want to open.

The following figure provides an overview of adding items to the Tool Launcher window.

Figure 3-46 Adding items to the Tool Launcher window

(2) Prerequisites

To open an application program window, the executable file for that window must be placed on the machine on which JP1/IM - View is installed. The user who starts JP1/IM - View must also have permission to execute the application program to be launched.

To open a Web page, a Web server is required on the host specified in the URL (the host on which the product that provides the Web page is installed).

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