The weekly source for hot IT management news and gossip is the IT Management Podcast hosted by Cote’ of Redmonk and John M Willis of Zabovo. This week’s episode featured OpenNMS’s Tarus Balog.
Tarus dropped a few interesting tidbits throughout the conversation around Network Management about a couple very large IBM Tivoli Netcool clients that were moving from or complementing their existing architecture with OpenNMS. One was a large telecommunications company in Italy (Telecom Italia?) and another a very large mobile telecommunications company in Switzerland named Swisscom.
This led to some discussions around product scalability, licensing models, etc. Tarus didn’t have any specifics to share other than one requirement for OpenNMS to handle event storms of 2K-3K per second. He said they’re working through architecture approaches to ensure that their backend databases can continue to scale in ways similar to Netcool/OMNIbus’s in-memory database.
Tarus also mentioned capabilities in OpenNMS on par with what Netcool/Impact offers. I believe he called them Automations. It’d be neat to hear more on this and if they’ll have a library of data source interfaces/integrations similar to Netcool/Impact.
Everything that Tarus and the OpenNMS team does is ultimately driven back into the main code tree for all to take advantage of. The OpenNMS DevCamp kicks off in a week or two where the foundations for OpenNMS 2.0 will be worked on. This is taking place in my backyard down at GA Tech if I recall correctly.
Congrats to the OpenNMS team for your entrance into the telco space with these clients. I also really want to learn more about your Papa John’s deployment and if I heard glimpses of Business Service Management (BSM) there or if you were just using that as an example!
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Actually we call it Dev-Jam, but you got the location right. We’d be thrilled if you’d drop in on us — I’ve asked Sam Zurita to extend that invitation personally as well. DM me (@jgehlbach) or Tarus (@Sortova) if interested and able.
Do you have any ideas as to where to go to find out about fully integrating TEPS/TEMS/ITM 6.2.1 through T/EC 3.9 and on into TBSM 3.1 with FIXPACK3?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have openned several PMR’s over the past year or so with little to no sucess. I am either asking the wrong questions or an too dumb to know what I am talking about even though I have been involved with IBM System Management since NGMF, then NMC, then TBSM 1.5 and now TBSM 3.1.. I feel the last 12 years of experience in Systems Management has no value at all with TEPS/TEMS nor do I even know where to begin with all this.
Joe,
I’m pretty sure there are some options there we can exchange offline. I seem to recall terminology such as IHSTTEC or something similar.
On another note, you guys are an important client. Have you thought about upgrading to the strategic products in Netcool/OMNIbus and TBSM v4.2? The integrations are certainly straight forward and nearly out of the box with ITM v6.x. I’d love to discuss this with you and see if there are possibilities we can engage and get you there quick. It seems you’ve been struggling for some time!
Doug
Doug.. Thanks for the reply… Sorry I put this in the wrong thread. We have been working with IBM/Tivoli Services just on implementing TEPS/TEMS/ITM 6.2.1. with our existing TEC server. We have the pipe working but there is much to be desired in the arena of event presentation and formatting of meaningful data to our TBSM 3.1 Operators and other customers.
This year we are hoping to just integrate TEPS/TEMS with our existing TEC and TBSM 3.1 Monitoring Console. Next year, we will probably begin the initiative to go to OmniBus and either TBSM 4.2 and/or WebTop? This is all dependent upon me surviving the current initiatives.