Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Processing JSON in automation scripts in IBM Control Desk 7.6

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Background You may need to deal with JSON-formatted data in an automation script, and it can be a little tricky. I've written this pos...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

It only takes an hour to get a test BigFix environment installed and working

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The only caveat (which they've maybe fixed now) is that the SQL Server that's bundled with the BigFix Eval is borked, so you first n...
Monday, July 9, 2018

How to change the BigFix WebUI database userid and password

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I recently installed the BigFix WebUI with the wrong password and needed to fix it. I found the encrypted information in the db_config.json ...
Friday, July 6, 2018

For business use, don't buy a laptop with higher than 1080p resolution

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The high resolution screens available today are amazing for graphics and gaming, but absolutely horrible if you need to use any traditional/...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Just Announced: IBM Cloud App Management

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Here's the announcement, with architecture details: https://developer.ibm.com/apm/2018/06/26/introducing-ibms-new-service-management-c...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Reading and writing files in a Maximo automation script

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Background All of the product documentation tells you to use the product provided logging for debugging automation scripts (see here, for ...
Friday, June 15, 2018

ICD 7.6 Fresh install and config with LDAP authentication configured will fail

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We found a problem when installing IBM Control Desk 7.6 on WebSphere and MSSQL where it fails every time if you enable LDAP/AD authenticatio...