I recently was asked to set up a backup plan for some IBM DB2 databases that were moving from being backed up by TSM to being backed up by Veeam. Unlike TSM, Veeam does not have a like for like integration with DB2 (although there is for Oracle). This meant that the DB2 backup images […]
“I&O leaders should use AIOps platforms for refining performance analysis across the application life cycle, as well as for augmenting IT service management and automation.” Gartner 2019 I’ve been writing about automating event management for the last 20 years and although the title AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations) has been a fairly recent addition the […]
IBM’s Dashboard Application Services Hub (DASH) gives us the ability to view data stored in the Netcool OMNIbus ObjectServer through customisable views and filters of varying complexity. The ability to precisely design how alerts are presented to an operator is invaluable for an efficient workflow, but sometimes all you need is a high-level overview. When […]
Is your Nagios renewal coming up or do you need Nagios support? Let us quote and we will guarantee to beat your normal price. Recently I have been looking at various different tool’s capabilities with regards to cloud monitoring and in my tests I had a look at Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) monitoring using […]
In the next part of this blog series we will look at variables used within TWS. This can be a confusing area especially for those long-time users of TWS as the use of “parameters” and “variables” is sometimes interchangeable. And that’s before we look at when variables get resolved – at job submission time or […]