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Watch4net: How to add URL's to Smarts client tool sub menu in Watch4net GUI (332977)

Last Updated: 5/29/2020Categories: TroubleshootingTotal Views: 16025Language:
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This article provides the steps to adding URL's to the Client Tools menu present on the Smarts dashboard located within Operations > Network > Notifications in the Watch4net GUI.

But why would you want to add custom URL's to the Client Tools menu?

As the default menu for Client Tools only includes a URL to open M&R, the ability to add in custom URL's is fantastic.

For example: Lets say you want to add in a link to another web page that contains links to web/config pages for devices etc.  You see an interface is showing as down, you right click on the alert, choose the menu option to launch the config page and you can make your config changes/ammendments immediatley, without having to navigate away from the current task.

When navigating to Operations > Network > Notifications within the Watch4net GUI. Notifications from Smarts can be viewed within the Watch4net GUI.

The ability to right-click on an event provides a menu with further options.

Additional options can be added to the Client Tools sub-menu.  In the image below the URL  http://www.google.com has been added to the Client Tools sub-menu. This allows the opening of that URL from within the Watch4net GUI.

Screenshot from Watch4net

Resolution

To add additional URL's to the Client Tools sub-menu the following file needs to be edited:

/opt/APG/Custom/WebApps-Resources/Default/conf/SmartsTools.json

The example text below shows the default "Launch EMC M&R" option and the Google option which has been added:

"tools": {
"tool": [
{
"name": "Launch EMC M&R",
"url": "/APG/#/0"
},
{
"name": "Google",
"url": "http://www.google.com"
}
]
}

Once the required options have been added and the file saved, the Tomcat service must be restarted for changes to take effect.

For details on restarting services please see the notes section

Related Information

To restart the Tomcat service in a Linux environment:

run the following command:

/opt/APG/bin/manage-modules.sh service status all

You will see an output with all APG services installed on the host. Take note of the instance name of the Tomcat service, in this case it is "Default"

* Checking 'tomcat Default'...                           [ running ]

run the following command:

/opt/APG/bin/manage-modules.sh service restart tomcat Default

This will restart the service

For managing services in a Windows environment please see the following article:

Watch4net APG 5: Managing APG processes/services in Windows Services console

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