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Integrating Applications into ITO
Integrating Applications into ITO
• application configured as No Window (eg X Application)
During the profile execution stdin, stdout and stderr are not
available, so you should avoid commands reading from standard
input or writing to standard output/error. Especially avoid commands
such as:
• stty
• tset
• startup of window (input/output) applications
❏ If a delay of more than 2 seconds occurs during output or input
activity, ITO assumes that an error has occurred, and it stops
execution. This could happen, for example, if a program runs for more
than 2 seconds without generating output.
❏ Do not ask more than four questions in the user’s profile, since ITO
only answers up to four prompts with Return.
❏ Do not add a logout message to the user’s profile because ITO adds
the message at the end of the applications output. In addition, do not
use sequences of escape characters in the profile because these are
also added to the application output, causing it to be garbled.
SMS Integration
The ITO/SMS integration is a collection of monitors and templates that
provides the ITO NT agent with the ability to monitor an SMS
installation in the PC subnet of an IT environment. This allows ITO
users to monitor the environment of NT nodes, and to restart SMS
services if they fail.
NT agents installed on every Site Server report SMS information about
the entire SMS hierarchy without using any SMS mechanisms.
Supported Versions of SMS
ITO supports both the English and the Japanese System Management
Server (SMS) 1.2 on Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51 and 4.0.
