You can launch an external application in the main Operations Sentinel Console window by
Selecting an item from the Applications menu. This menu is extended with the names of external applications defined, selected, and arranged by your site.
Clicking a managed object in a topology in the display pane and pressing Enter. This initiates the default action for the managed object, which you can configure to be an external application.
Right-clicking an image in a topology, which displays a shortcut menu that includes the names of external applications that can be launched for the managed object represented by the image.
Clicking a managed object in a table in the display pane and pressing Enter. This initiates the default action for the managed object, which you can configure to be an external application.
Right-clicking a managed object in a table in the display pane, which displays a shortcut menu that includes the names of external applications that can be launched for the managed object.
In the both the Alerts window and the Alerts tab in the details pane of the main window of Operations Sentinel Console, you can launch an external application by right-clicking an alert, which displays a shortcut menu that includes the names of external applications that can be launched for the alert.
An external application might appear in one or all these places depending on how you configured its launch definition.