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Integrating External Applications into the VPO GUI
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Using NNM-integrated Applications With VPO
This section describes how applications that are already integrated into
NNM can be accessed by way of VPO, or can be integrated in different
ways. Applications that are part of NNM are referred to as “NNM
Applications” whereas applications that are manually added are
referred to as “Additional Applications”.
As opposed to NNM, which does not support user roles, applications
integrated into the VPO GUI can be assigned individually by the
administrator to dedicated operators. Each operator has his/her own
customized working environment.
NNM Applications in VPO
All standard NNM applications that present menu items in NNM are
automatically available to the VPO administrator in two ways, either:
❏ Contained in logical groups as OV Application icons.When these OV
Applications are assigned to an operator, they are displayed as icons
in the customized Application Desktop of that operator.
❏ Contained in the Application Bank under the OV Services
application group as an OV Service. When these OV Services are
assigned to an operator, they do not appear in the Application
Desktop, but as menu items available from any of the operator’s
IP-Maps.
The OV Services application group also contains daemon
applications that do not present menu items in NNM, for example,
IP-Map.
There are also three NNM-specific applications contained in the X-OVw
application group in both the VPO administrator and operator GUIs.
This default application group contains the following applications:
❏ Start OVw. This starts an ovw session on the VPO management
server or, if available, on a remote NNM system.
❏ Highlight Selected Node. This application maps the selected node
to an NNM system and highlights the node in an ovw session of that
NNM system.
❏ Highlight Message Node. This maps the node related to a selected
message to an NNM system, and highlights the node in an ovw
session of that NNM system.