Saturday, October 4, 2008

Launching TADDM in context without a GUID

TADDM certainly provides a cool way to be launched in a context, as documented at:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v10r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.taddm.doc_7.1/AdminGuide/r_cmdb_launchincontext.html

For example,

http://taddm_server:9430/cdm/servlet/LICServlet?guid=B435980E80FA39509EBFE294D70BA5C8

will launch TADDM Produce Console in the context of a GUID.

The problem arises when the launching application doesn't know the GUID.
I created a Java Server Page to bridge between such application and TADDM. It's available at:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddnnhc4w_307dffpq3gs
  • Download the file as taddm_launcher.jsp
  • Edit the line defining the TADDM_SERVER to your TADDM installation
  • Copy the file to the TADDM Server to the directory /deploy-tomcat/cdm
  • Point your browser to
    http://taddm_server:9430/cdm/taddm_launcher.jsp?name=computer_system_name
    replacing taddm_server and the computer_system_name accordingly
This work can certainly be expanded to launch other sections of TADDM and other kinds of resources (it works only with ComputerSystem objects).

The syntax of the Launch in Context URL can be found at: