4.1 What a user can do with the user-created plug-in

The user can create a plug-in and retrieve information from the management tool of a linked product, to manage it with the Intelligent Integrated Management Base. The following figure shows the operations provided by the user-created plug-in.

Figure 4‒1: Operations provided by the user-created plug-in

The following describes the flow using numbered steps (the numbers correspond to the numbers in the figure).

1. Assign IDs to targets managed by management tool A and collect data.

2. Collect and configure relation information between D and G.

3. Retrieve the tree SID of the IM management node.

4. Retrieve the data on management targets.

5. Associate a JP1 event with the management target to manage the status of the target^#.

6. Obtain the URL of a linked product from JP1 event information to open the window of the linked product.

#: As an assumption, the management target must issue a JP1 event to manage its status.

Organization of this section

• 4.1.1 Format of the user-created plug-in

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