External Application Launch

Use the External Application Launch task to add applications to the IBM® Director Console Tasks pane. You can add third-party applications, scripts, and command-line commands to the Tasks pane so you can start them from IBM Director Console. The application, script, or command-line commands must be installed on the management console (the system running IBM Director Console).

Icon External Application Launch icon
Supported IBM Director objects Varies by the application that you add to the IBM Director Console Tasks pane.

You can add applications that run on a managed object, for example, the Storage Manager application supports the FAStT device managed object.

Other applications are not associated with managed objects or IBM Director, but you can include them in IBM Director Console for convenience. These applications run on the management console only, for example, Telnet or operating system commands.

Supported operating systems
  • Linux®
  • Windows®

For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director product.
Required hardware or hardware limitations Varies by the application that you add to the IBM Director Console Tasks pane.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task Command task files that have the CMDExt file extension. These files are located in the following directory on the management server:
  • (For Linux) /opt/ibm/director/classes/extensions
  • (For Windows) c:\Program Files\IBM\Director\classes\extensions
where these are the default directory paths in which IBM Director Server is installed.

For information about creating command task files, see the IBM Director information center at .

Events associated with this task None
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Launching external applications
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