The Tivoli Analytics for Service Performance product, which I first wrote about here and here, has since been rebranded under the IBM SmartCloud Analytics umbrella and is now known as IBM SmartCloud Analytics – Predictive Insights. The latest 1.2.0.2 version introduces the following new features: Related Metrics: SmartCloud Analytics – Predictive Insights now allows you […]
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 […]
Following on from my previous blog on how to quickly perform a AIX security configuration audit, I thought I would take a look at how to remediate some of the security failures that the audit detected. The remediation will be done using the IBM Endpoint Manager Security Configuration Module. So if we use the same […]
How often does your IT Security team ask you to run a “quick” security compliance audit on your AIX server infrastructure? If you are going to do this manually for a significant number of servers this would require a significant amount of manpower and a considerable amount of time to complete. Wouldn’t it be nice […]