Self provision of virtual machines using IBM Tivoli products (TiSAM, ITM and Omnibus)

Here is a video Eswara and I made showing self-provisioning of virtual machines using TiSAM, ITM and Omnibus.
Enjoy!

How can we integrate with HP CMDB - part 3

Here are some code to interact with HP SM7 Web Services. It uses an AXIS library generated from the WSDL file, available at iTunes or the following link: HP SM7 Axis Library.

ci = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.Common.StringType (work.getString ("NAME"));

keys = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.DeviceKeysType ();
keys.setConfigurationItem (ci);

instance = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.DeviceInstanceType ();
status = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.Common.StringType ("In use");
instance.setStatus (status);
computer = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.Common.StringType ("computer");
instance.setConfigurationItemType(computer);
application = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.Common.StringType ("application");
instance.setAssignmentGroup (application);

messageType = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.Common.MessageType();
messageTypes = [messageType];

type = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.DeviceModelType (keys, instance, messageTypes, "query");
booleanf = new java.lang.Boolean (false);
booleant = new java.lang.Boolean (true);

request = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.CreateDeviceRequest (type, booleanf, booleanf, booleant);

task.logmsg ("request: " + request);

locator = new Packages.com.hp.schemas.SM._7.Device_ServiceLocator ();

device = locator.getDevice ();

device.setUsername ("falcon");

response = device.createDevice (request);

task.logmsg ("response: " + response + " message: " + response.getMessage());
messages = response.getMessages ();
for (message in messages) {
    task.logmsg ("messages: " + message);
}

How can we integrate with HP CMDB? - Part 2

 Nothing like having the opportunity to touch an HP Service Management 7 installation and see first hand what's possible and what's not.

The bottom line is that, like any 'modern' application, HP SM7 makes available Web Service for interacting with the module, like Change Management and Configuration Items.

So, forget what I said before, because it's possible to load data directly into HP SM7 using the Web Service interface.

I didn't find a way to reconcile the data coming from multiple data sources, but at least the parable of not being able to load data into HP SM7 is not true.

How can we integrate with HP CMDB?

HP CMDB (HP CMDB link) is HP's solution for the Configuration Management System (CMS).It's a re-brand of the Mercury uCMDB product. As with any CMDB, it has the ability to import or federate data.

Although not clearly stated, it seems that the only provider of imported data is HP Discovery and Dependency Manager (HP DDM), another Mercury product.

So the only remaining alternative is to federate data, which represents a real compelling solution, as it doesn't require to ETL (extract, transform and load) the data.

The issue arrives when multiple data sources (including HP DDM) are referring to the same resource. Although not clearly stated, HP CMDB doesn't seem to provide a way to reconcile the data, but it defers this job to HP SM7 (HP SM7), another suite of products that can consume HP CMDB data.

Bottom line: although not state clearly, there seems to be no way to load data into HP CMDB, neither there is a way to reconcile federated data.

Hard to believe? Tell me if you know anything different...

How to delete all CCMDB Authorized CI classification

Here is the script to delete all CCMDB Authorized CI classification:

delete from select classstructure where classstructureid in (select classstructureid from classusewith where objectname = 'CI')

Wills, do it at your own risk.

How to make TPM 5.1.1 configure a Ubuntu machine properly

As you know, TPM 5.1.1 can deploy RedHat and SuSE. What about the popular distro Ubuntu? The answer is: the TPM 5.1.1 workflow, as the hostname is not properly changed in Ubuntu.

To fix that, you just have to add the following line to the script /opt/ibm/tivoli/tpm/repository/vmware-vi3-scripts/config_linux.sh:


#Password setup
echo "${rootpassword}" | passwd --stdin root


# EP start
echo ${hostname} > /etc/hostname


# EP end


# Shutdown
shutdown -h now

With that, TPM 5.1.1 can successfully define the hostname in Ubuntu.

Creating Extended Attributes with the TDI IdML Connector

As you know, the IdML Connector can be used to create (guess what...) an IdML!

The tags in the IdML comply to the Common Data Model, and when they are written to the XML file, they are preceded with the "cdm:".

TADDM has the concept of Extended Attribute. The question is: how to specify an extended attributes using the IDML Connector?

The answer is simple, Vince: In the Attribute Connector area, create an attribute whose name starts with "extattr:". The IDML Connector treats these attributes differently: it doesn't try to find a corresponding attribute in the Common Data Model, but simply copies them to the XML file.

Go, have fun with the IDML Connector!