In this post I will be going through how to use Impact Web Services with a real example showing how to create an impact policy that uses Web Services to connect and retrieve information from an external system. To begin we need a WSDL file. Here is a sample WSDL file for getting a weather forecast: http://www.webservicex.net/weatherforecast.asmx?wsdl
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Event Isolation and Correlation, or EIC, is a solution that is included with IBM Netcool/Impact as of release 6.1, and is intended to provide built-in functionality allowing the association of dissimilar alarms to each other (i.e. to correlate them together) in a “root cause” and “symptom” relationship for the Netcool OMNIbus and Impact products.
The EIC solution is composed of:
One of the new features in Netcool Omnibus 7.4 is a REST-like interface to the ObjectServer added to support OSLC. This interface allows you to query, update, add, and delete entries from any ObjectServer table. The documentation says that there is at least one IBM product that supports it, but we’re going to start simple and give the straight HTTP interface a try (documentation is available here).