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Use Netcool to Leverage Service Now Discovery and CMDB Data

In a previous blog I outlined a possible method of integrating IBM Tivoli Netcool (specifically Impact/TBSM) with Service Now to raise incidents.This blog will outline one possible method to be employed to enrich IBM Tivoli Netcool with data from the Service Now (SNOW for short) Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The method in this blog was […]

Leverage Zabbix to Monitor DB2

Recently I have been building and configuring an open source product by the name of Zabbix. Zabbix is an enterprise level software designed for monitoring availability and  performance of IT infrastructure components. One of our customers would like to use Zabbix to monitor an IBM DB2 database with minimal configuration. What is meant by minimal […]