Configuring External Tools

WinAgents MIB Browser allows you to add custom tools you use for managing network devices to its menu. The tools added by the user are found in the 'Tools' submenu of the main menu. Use the 'Tools->Configure tools' command to configure additional tools. You can see the dialog box for configuring external tools in Figure 6.

Figure 6. External tools dialog box.

By default, there are three records already present in the list of tools: Ping (pinging), TraceRoute (tracing the route to the current device) and MIB Extractor (extracting MIB modules from RFC text files).

You can use the Add button to add new tools to the list. To delete a tool, you should select it and click the Delete button. You can use the Move up and Move Down buttons to move items in the list.

To edit the parameters of any tool, just select it, change its parameters and click the Apply button. The following settings are available for each tool:

Title - its title. The string from this field is displayed in the menu.

Executable - its external executable file that is launched when the corresponding menu item is selected. You should either enter it manually together with the full path or use the standard Windows Open File dialog box.

Arguments - its arguments. If necessary, use this field to specify arguments to run the external utility with. Special program arguments are the most interesting items here. There are two of them: $Device and $ObjIdent. The first one inserts the currently selected device as an argument, while the second one inserts its identifier.

Working dir - its working folder. Use the standard Windows Select Folder dialog box to specify the working folder of the utility in this field. Besides, you can select one of its standard values: Executable Directory (the folder where the utility is located), MIB Directory (the folder where the MIB database is located) or MIB Browser Directory (the folder where WinAgents MIB Browser is installed).