Ever since I started deploying enterprise system management (ESM) solutions the Holy Grail has been finding a methodology for Rapid Deployment. Twenty to twenty-five years ago a typical project would not be counted in days or hours but months and years. I spent a pleasant 9 months in Frankfurt deploying Tivoli and when I left […]
This blog shows how to configure passing a variable from an event rule to an event action. The example shown passed a variable to the Run Command action, but the same approach can be used to pass it to any event action that accepts arguments. You can check which actions accept arguments by checking the […]
In the next part of this blog series we will look at variable tables. As mentioned in my previous blog, variable tables were introduced with TWS 8.5 and supplement the use of parameter values in earlier TWS versions. Variable tables Variables are held in variable tables which are stored in the TWS database. This provides […]
Is your Nagios renewal coming up or do you need Nagios support? Let us quote and we will guarantee to beat your normal price. One of the more common tasks performed by System Monitoring/OSS administrators is to configure the OSS to run on non-standard ports. Usually there is a security requirement or a need to […]
Following on from the sterling work of my colleague Nick Lansdowne, this blog will build upon Nick’s blog to provide a historical view of the device count numbers. This historical view will leverage the work discussed in Nick’s previous blog (Netcool/OMNIbus License Compliance: Easy access to your device counter report). A historical view is useful […]