Add URL's to Smarts client tool sub menu in the notification dashboard

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

• As the default menu for Client Tools only includes a URL to open M&R, the ability to add in custom URL's is fantastic. 
• For example: Lets say you want to add in a link to another web page that contains links to web/config pages for devices etc.  
• You see an interface is showing as down, you right click on the alert, choose the menu option to launch the config page and you can make your config changes/ammendments immediatley, without having to navigate away from the current task.
• When navigating to Operations > Network > Notifications within the Watch4net GUI. Notifications from Smarts can be viewed within the M&R GUI.
• The ability to right-click on an event provides a menu with further options.
• Additional options can be added to the Client Tools sub-menu.
  
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Environment

Watch4net | M&r - 7.x

Resolution

• To add additional URL's to the Client Tools sub-menu the following file needs to be edited:

/APG_HOME/Custom/WebApps-Resources/Default/conf/SmartsTools.json

• The example text below shows the default "Launch EMC M&R" option and the Google option which has been added:

"tools": {
    "tool": [
      {
        "name": "Launch EMC M&R",
        "url": "/APG/#/0"
      },
        {
        "name": "<website name>",
        "url": "<url of the website?
      }
    ]
  }

• Once the required options have been added and the file saved, the Tomcat service must be restarted for changes to take effect.
  
  
• To restart the Tomcat service in a Linux environment:
  
  Run the following command:

/APG_HOME/bin/manage-modules.sh service status all

• You will see an output with all APG services installed on the host. Take note of the instance name of the Tomcat service, in this case it is "Default"

* Checking 'tomcat Default'...                           [ running ]

• Run the following command:

/APG_HOME/bin/manage-modules.sh service restart tomcat Default

• This will restart the tomcat service.