Documentation for Monitoring 12.0. Documentation for other versions of Monitoring is available too.

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You can use the Menu... item of the context menu to launch external applications from the Control Panel.

You use the IP address of any object.

For example, if you want to ping any object, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click the area that contains the object's name. The context menu opens. Select the Menu... menu item. Then the Menu... dialog box opens.
  2. In this dialog box, click Add entry and enter values as shown in the following figure.

    The <ip> string is a reserved expression. When application is called, the real IP address is inserted. Type this string in lowercase.
  3. Click OK. The Menu... window shows a new entry that describes the new context menu item.

    If you right-click on the area that contains an object's name, a context menu opens. The menu contains the new menu item, PING. 

If the Confirmation checkbox was set, the dialog box opens to confirm the command execution when you select this menu item. Click OK to confirm or Cancel if you do not want to execute the action.

After confirmation, the ping program is started in a separate window.

For objects that connect to Monitoring via RS232 or objects that never connected to it yet, the 127.0.0.1 value will be used instead of <ip>.

The same way you can create menu items that start other external applications (such as Radmin, etc.).