HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

Integrating Applications into HPOM
Starting Applications and Broadcasts on Managed Nodes
Guidelines for Setting Up User Profiles
When setting up user profiles, follow these guidelines:
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User Input
Do not ask for specific user input in the profile. Instead, provide a
default value that users confirm with by pressing Return.
For example, the following script for HP-UX 11.x produces an endless
loop if no valid answer is specified.
#!/usr/bin/sh
TERM=""
while [ -z "${TERM}" ]
do
echo "Type of terminal (hp|vt100): \c"
read TERM
if [ "${TERM}" != "hp" -a "${TERM}" != "vt100" ]
then
TERM=""
fi
done
The correct way to specify the default value is shown in the following
script. If no valid answer is specified, a default value is used.
#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "Type of terminal (hp=default|vt100): \c"
read TERM
if [ "${TERM}" != "hp" -a "${TERM}" != "vt100" ]
then
TERM=hp
fi
Questions
Do not ask more than four questions in the user’s profile. HPOM only
answers up to four prompts with Return.
Logout Messages
Do not add a logout message to the user’s profile. HPOM adds the
message at the end of the application’s output. In addition, do not use
sequences of escape characters in the profile. Escape characters are
also added to the application output, thereby garbling the output.
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