Starting external applications from the Control Panel

You can use the Menu... item of the context menu (Fig. 2.10—1) to launch external applications from the Control Panel.
Fig. 2.10—1 Menu item Menu
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. (see Fig. 2.10—1). Then the Menu... dialog box opens. (Fig. 2.10—2).

Fig. 2.10—2 Menu dialog box

1. in this dialog box, click Add entry and enter values as shown in Fig. 2.10—3.

Fig. 2.10—3 Configuring the menu item's parameters
The <ip> string is a reserved expression. When application is called, the real IP address is inserted. Type this string in lowercase.

1. Click OK. The Menu... window shows a new entry that describes the new context menu item (Fig. 2.10—4).

Fig. 2.10—4 New entry that describes a 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 (Fig. 2.10—5).
Fig. 2.10—5 New context menu item
If you select this menu item, the ping program starts (Fig. 2.10—6).
Fig. 2.10—6 Starting a program from the context menu
For objects that connect to Monitoring via RS232 or objects that never connected to it yet, use 127.0.0.1 instead of <ip>.
The same way you can create menu items that start other external applications (such as Radmin, etc.).