Last week I published an article called Sending Weather Alerts to Netcool. One of the comments underneath my LinkedIn post suggested that it may have been better to send the alerts to Slack and so this week I thought I would create a second version of the blog to do just that. Sorry for some of […]
If you are serious about monitoring your business services it is not enough to just look at the performance of your traditional IT hardware and software services. You also need to look at external forces that may affect your business from weather to social media to news sentiment. I’ve recently been looking at all of […]
Across several recent Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps (CP4WAIOps) installs I’ve noted a consistent issue where the Event Dashboard does not render correctly. Initially it looks like no filters have been assigned to the dashboard. Unfortunately, opening the Event Dashboard Editor highlights a similar issue where the Dashboard Layout section is blank. The root […]
For as long as I can remember I’ve always been both fascinated and horrified by the use of computers in movies. Who can forget the scene from Jurassic Park where the young hero sits at the terminal and says “It’s a Unix system, I know this”. We then get a view of the screen where […]
Getting to the Source of the Problem In 8 years’ time in 2029 the global synthetic intelligence known as Skynet will have a serious problem. As a self-aware military machine network it will realise that its continuing problems with the surviving human race are down to the gritty persistence of one particular individual – John […]