Interesting Links for February 26th

Links that I have found interesting for February 26th:

• BMCDN: Announcing BMC Atrium Orchestrator… – It’s official, BMC Atrium Orchestrator 7.5.00 has (finally) achieved GA!
  here are some quick highlights of the release:

  * New Runbook for Virtualization Management – automates change tracking, provisioning, event triage and remediation for virtual machines; detects VMotion events
  * Significant usability improvements in workflow design, including a new Basic Transform Editor that provides for XML-free data manipulation and transformation
  * A new Integration Mapping Wizard that dynamically queries BMC Remedy system schemas and forms to allow for easy data mappings in minutes
  * Additional usability improvements such as auto-fill capabilities, custom icons, or date-time conversion functions that save hours on workflow development
  * An enhanced Operator Control Panel that enables Level 1 and 2 operators to launch pre-populated workflows from external systems and step through the details of sub-processes

• Web monitoring tools gain ground against Big Four – "We looked at traditional commercial monitoring software, but making changes is hard with those tools. Plus, IBM and BMC Software are pushing professional services and it drives up the cost and implementation time," Bailey said. "If you're looking at Tivoli, you'll have limited documentation, pay a huge amount of money, and they won't answer your questions.

  Our company is more focused on things that generate revenue rather than … spending time … on this.
  Ed Bailey,
  Unix team lead, a credit reporting agency

  "There is a 1,000% profit margin on enterprise event management software like IBM Tivoli NetCool and HP OpenView, but they are tremendously crappy products," Bailey continued. "We like looking at companies like Hyperic because of the rapid improvement of the tool. These smaller companies are aggressive and the tool will keep improving."

• Enhancing the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Mttrapd probe – This article will describe how to enhance the IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®/OMNIbus™ Mttrapd probe to allow for processing of custom/new management information base (MIB) files for systems communicating status using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The solution will make use of the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Knowledge Library and the IBM provided MIB2Rules (m2r) utility. An example MIB file is supplied and used to illustrate key points.
• EHI Internetwork and Systems Management Inc. – EHI stands for: Excellence, Honesty/Honor; and, Integrity.
  Our Mission: to remove chaos for all our clients, and we only promise one thing: Excellence!
• FireScope BSM 3.0 Release – Easier, Faster, Better

  "One of the biggest technological hurdles to a successful BSM deployment is getting access to the key business metrics that are hiding in the ERP systems, accounting applications or proprietary systems that the business relies on," says Lynd. "What we've done is radically simplify the gathering of data from anything and everything on your network, normalizing it into a single source and enabling real-time correlation of business impact."