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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

2034.0. "A handy HUBwatch tip" by CGOOA::PITULEY (Ain't technology wonderful?) Tue Feb 21 1995 12:38

    While installing HUBwatch on a customer's site, the customer was
    complaining about having to type in an agent name or IP address every
    time he launched HUBwatch.  In a moment of inspiration, I remembered
    that Windows has the ability to run a program with options that are
    added on the command line that launches the application.  We tried it
    and it worked really well.
    
    What we did:
    
    With HUBwatch closed, we highlighted the HUBwatch icon and under the
    "FILE" heading selected "PROPERTIES".  In the window that pops up there
    is an entry called "COMMAND LINE" that is the path and name of the
    HUBwatch executable.  At the end of that statement we added a space and
    then the name of one of the agents on the network.  Now every time
    HUBwatch is launched it comes up with the physical view of the hub that
    is managed by the agent we named.  Very handy and convenient.
    
    This may be old news to some but it is not something I had heard of
    being done before.
    
    Brian Pituley
    NPC, Calgary
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2034.1SLINK::HOODThis is my new personal name for NotesTue Feb 21 1995 15:332
Version 4 of HUBwatch for Windows will pop-up the agents file on startup
so you can click on the agent to manage.
2034.2also in STARS......NETCAD::SKABOExpect Nothing U never disappointedTue Feb 21 1995 15:5967
 STARS V2.6-1



[HUBwatch] Windows: How to Set Up an Icon for each Agent/Hub


COPYRIGHT (c) 1988, 1993 by Digital Equipment Corporation.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No distribution except as provided under contract.

Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1994. All rights reserved.

PRODUCT:  Hubwatch for Windows

OP/SYS:   MS-DOS[R]

SOURCE:   Digital Equipment Corporation


SUBJECT:

How to set up an icon for each agent/hub so the user can display the hub
versus getting  a "specify agent" window when selecting Hubwatch.


DESCRIPTION:

1. Select "Program Manager" icon to open the window.

2. Select "Hubwatch for Windows" icon to open the Hubwatch window.

3. With the Hubwatch window open select File from the Program Manager window.

4. Select Properties within File. This will bring up a "Program Item
   Properties" window for Hubwatch. Note the Command Line,
   C:\HUBWATCH\HUBWATCH, and Working Directory, C:\HUBWATCH.

5. Cancel "Program Item Properties" window.

6. Select "File" from Program Manager window.

7. Select "New" within File. This will bring up a "New Program Obect" window.

8. Select "Program Item" and OK within the "New Program Obect" window. This
   will bring up a "Program Item Properties" window.

9.Specify the following:
        Description = desired name of icon
        Command line = command line information retrieved above PLUS
                -x (ip addresss of agent) and -c (community). Note the
                qualifiers are lower case.

        Click on OK to add the entry to the Hubwatch Window

[R]  MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

\ CONTRIBUTORS:
\
\      Technical:
\           Ray Hall (156918) of NSU
\           Grant Burton (173877) of NSU
\
\      Editorial:
\           Rob Saunders (70906) of ESDG
\
\\ NSU HUBWATCH WINDOWS STATUS=CURRENT
\\ PROD=HUBWATCH-DOS SPD=37.87 CAT=COMM GRP=HUBWATCH GRP=NETMGMT OS=MS-DOS
2034.3Other Tips for HUBWatchKETJE::VANDENBERG_RFri Feb 24 1995 03:3119
	Hi,
	This one can also help:
	
	1.You can automate the configuration of hubs and maintain the 		
	configuration using the 'Recorder' function in the MS-DOS accessories 	
	Program Item this info can be saved as separate Macros per hub.
	
	2. I you want to have a look of the HUBWATCH help in the plane, your 	
	bed or bath room etc..
	It is possible to access the online help without to be online with a hub
		by using the Online Help of any MS-DOS application, then from:
		File
			Open
				->the HubWatch directory
				howto.hlp
	And off you go.

	B.R.
	Robert
2034.4...and reading OpenVMS or OSF/1 help filesSLINK::HOODThis is my new personal name for NotesFri Feb 24 1995 10:2412
>	It is possible to access the online help without to be online with a hub

ditto for the motif versions of HUBwatch (OSF/1 and OpenVMS).  You can read
the help without HUBwatch:

	OpenVMS:	SYS$HELP:HUBWATCH.DECW$BOOK
	OSF/1:		/usr/lib/X11/help/hubwatch.decw_book

You can read the file with bookreader.

Tom Hood
HUBwatch