When an external application task is started against a target, IBM® Director passes information
about the selected target to the external application by setting the values
of environment variables on the management console.
The command line for the external application task can pass the values
of the following environment variables to the task as command parameters.
- CMDTASK_IP_ADDRESSn
- This variable contains the nth TCP/IP
address attribute for the targeted system, where n is
a counter starting at 0 for the first TCP/IP address.
- CMDTASK_MAC_ADDRESSn
- This variable contains the nth MAC
address for the targeted system, where n is
a counter starting at 0 for the first MAC address.
- CMDTASK_COMPUTERNAME
- This variable contains the ComputerName attribute for the targeted system.
Use of these environment variables is illustrated in the following
examples: