Links that I have found interesting for April 6th:
- BSM on the brain – Network World – According to Gartner, the worldwide enterprise software market will experience flat growth in 2009, seeing just a .3% uptick over 2008. With nearly $222.6 billion expected in software revenues in the coming year, IT buyers are looking at software-as-a-service, cloud and other alternatives to purchasing annual software licenses, Gartner says. Yet such forecasts aren't stopping vendors such as BMC, ManageEngine and Zyrion from separately updating their software products designed to reduce manual labor, speed problem resolution and improve IT service delivery across enterprise and other companies.
- Getting Groovy, Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight – ** Cool! I'd never thought I or the blog would be the basis for a geeky turorial like this! š **
A while ago Doug asked whether anyone knew a utility to read XML and send SNMP traps. I mentioned that it would be easy to do with Groovy but did not have time to give any details. I’ve been meaning to write a post about how we use Groovy in RapidInsight and thought this would be a good excercise.
First I have state once again that I’m not a developer nor play one on Youtube. I can however, put together scripts, especially if there are examples, but writing java code is not my cup of tea. Groovy makes this stuff easy enough to deal with for people like me (system integrators, admins, etc.)
In this example, we’ll read the RSS feed (which is XML) from Doug’s blog and take action if the feed title includes the word BSM in it š Groovy includes powerful XML utility called xmlslurper that makes reading XML a breeze.