4.19.2 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 8.3.2 Functions that can be operated from the Tool Launcher window in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - 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 JP1/Performance Management User's 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 5.18 Setting the Tool Launcher window in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide.

Important

When you call the window of a linked product by using the Tool Launcher, the product might require you to use the authentication information in JP1/IM - View. The following shows examples of the linked products that require you to use the authentication information in JP1/IM - View:

JP1/IM - Rule Operation
JP1/AJS3 - View
JP1/AJS - Web Console
JP1/PFM - Web Console

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 08-10 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 version 08-01 or earlier, authentication fails on the linked product side.

In 64-bit editions of Windows, if you execute a command in the %WINDIR%\System32 folder, the WOW64 redirection function redirects the command to a command in the %WINDIR%\SysWow64 folder. If the command is not found in the destination folder, command execution might fail. Be careful when you specify a command in the %WINDIR%\System32 folder as the execution command.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Mechanism of calling other applications from the Tool Launcher window
(2) Prerequisites

(1) Mechanism of calling other applications from 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.

Note that such application windows are controlled by the OS user who launched JP1/IM - View.

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

Figure 4‒106: Adding items to the Tool Launcher window

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(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.
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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