Configuring Context Menu

The program allows creating user's menu, with which you can perform miscellaneous actions over network objects. This user-defined context menu can also be used via the web interface (in LANState Pro).

To add new menu item: right-click on the network map area and then select the menu item Actions | <Add>. This opens a new window (Fig. 1), in which you can set:

• Menu title
• Application
• Command line parameters
• Types of map objects for which this menu item can be applied

Fig. 1: The Adding new action window.

Specify the %N key for representing device's address. The program will replace the key with selected object's network address. Specify the %C key for representing device's comment. Thus, you can insert various data (which you can store in the comment field) into the parameter string when running external application. Specify the %C-Username% and the %C-Password% keys for representing device's username and password which are stored on the device's properties window. If you want to use the attached file's name from the device's comment properties, use the %C-File% key.

The list of the caption field has a number of predefined templates (such as HTTP, FTP, etc), which you can use as you wish.

Once you have created a new menu item, it appears on the selected object's context menu in the section Actions. You can modify, add or delete menu item using the settings (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2: The Configuring context menu window.

You can sort the context menu items by clicking the buttons with arrows. If you select the option Perform the first operation from the list on double click on the upper list item will be a default action which can be applied to map objects by double-clicking on the necessary object.

Use the "-" symbol (dash) as a header for adding the separator line to the menu.

The configured context menu will be also displayed in the program's web interface (in LANState Pro). However, the menu items which run executable files (.exe files in the "Application" column) will work in Microsoft Internet Explorer only (other browsers are not supported yet).

You need to configure the following security options in IE settings to run executable files via the web interface's context menu:

1. Click the Tools | Internet Options menu option in IE's main menu. Go to the Security tab.

2. Select the Web content security zone to specify its settings – Trusted sites. Click Sites.

3. On the Trusted sites window, disable the Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone option. In the Add this Web site to the zone field, type the program's web server address (http://network-address-of-a-computer-where-the-program-is-installed. For example, http://server). Click Add. Close the window (OK).

4. In the Security level for this zone field, click the Custom Level... button. On the Security Settings window, find the "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe" node in the very beginning of the list and select the Enable option.

5. Apply the settings.

Please note! These security settings are potentially dangerous. If you do not need to run executable files via the context menu via the web interface, do not apply the security settings described above to your Internet Explorer.