Running external applications from the Control Panel

By using the Menu context menu  you can start external applications from the Control Panel.

You can pass an object's IP address as a parameter when starting applications in this manner.

For example, if you want to quickly ping an object, do the following:

1. Right-click the area with the object name and, in the context menu that appears, select Menu... .
2. The Menu... dialog box appears.
   
3. In the dialog box, click the Add record... button. In the fields that appear, enter the values as shown in the figure.

The string <ip> is a reserved expression: the real IP address of the object will be "swapped in" here when the application is called. This string must be entered in lower-case letters.

After you click the Apply button, a new entry appears, with a description of the new item in the context menu.

Now when you right-click the area with an object name, a context menu appears in which the previously created PING menu item is present.

When you select this menu item, the ping program is started in a separate window.

For objects connecting to ATM Intellect Workstation via RS-232, as well as for objects that have never connected to ATM Intellect Workstation, the value "127.0.0.1" is substituted for "<ip>".

The same method can be used to start other external applications, such as Radmin, etc.