What is Netcool Operations Insight? Netcool Operations Insight is a combination of existing IBM products (Netcool/OMNIbus, Netcool/OMNIbus Message Bus Gateway and SmartCloud Analytics – Log Analysis) plus pre-written configurations and customisations for the different components to facilitate the integration and aid usability. What do the Netcool Operations Insight Integrations do? All alerts received by the […]
Introduction Those familiar with the Netcool product suite will be aware that Impact has included the feature for “self-monitoring” for some time. This enables Key Performance Indicators for runtime performance to be collected and analysed, for example memory usage and event queue size. Alerts are generated based on pre-defined thresholds. Similar features have now been […]
Introduction ITM Agent Builder v6.2.2.2 enhanced the “Output from a script” data source to enable commands to be run on remote systems using “ssh”. This has proved to be very useful for the collection of monitoring data from unsupported versions of UNIX, Linux and Windows. Enabling an agent for the remote collection of data is […]
Build SNMP rules quickly… Recently I have begun using the Netcool IDE to build and develop rules for probes. Specifically, the master of all probes, the “MTTrapd probe” and it has proven to be quite handy. Prior to using the Netcool IDE I had been using editors such as vi to edit rules. We at […]
Monitoring from the Cloud – APMaaS Overview Recently we have been getting involved in Service Engage from IBM. An offering that allows customers to run Enterprise Systems Management functions as a cloud service. The beta currently offers the following areas to be run using a SaaS model. Performance Management IT Service Management Workload Automation Analytics […]