I’ve recently been spending some time “cleaning up” our VMWare infrastructure and making it more functional – both for demos and for internal lab use. To that end, I’ve been trying to automate/simplify as many things as possible. One task that I’d been wanting to simplify is snapshot creation/deletion of multiple VMs at once since this is something we do all the time. Imagine you have a set of VMs that are used for a single lab instance of a product. Before you make any major changes – for example patching or upgrading the product – you want to create a clean snapshot so that you can revert if something goes wrong. Unfortunately, this is something you can only do one VM-at-a-time in a vanilla-vCenter environment. However, it’s dead simple using Powershell and PowerCLI!
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Working with Impact Web Services – an Introduction
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)
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:
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Netcool Impact (6.1+)
- Data Sources
- Operator Views
- Impact policies
- Netcool OMNIbus
- A DB2 database containing the required Service Component Registry (SRC) tables, obtained through the implementation of the TBSM schema.
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Optional components
- TBSM
- TADDM
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