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Working with Impact Web Services – an Introduction

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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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A Brief Introduction to Netcool Impact Event Isolation and Correlation (EIC)

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Overview

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.

Components

The EIC solution is composed of:

  1. Netcool Impact (6.1+)
    1. Data Sources
    2. Operator Views
    3. Impact policies
  2. Netcool OMNIbus
  3. A DB2 database containing the required Service Component Registry (SRC) tables, obtained through the implementation of the TBSM schema.
  4. Optional components
    1. TBSM
    2. TADDM
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