Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The best easy and free video editing software available is Shotcut
I've never editing a video before, but I needed to yesterday. I found Shotcut, and I couldn't be happier about how easy it is to use. It's free, easy AND it's a portable app, so you don't have to install anything. They've got a very active forum and tons of how-to videos available. If you need to do some video editing (including multiple tracks, audio overlay, and all the high-ed options), give it a try.
Monday, July 15, 2019
JavaScript regular expression trick
Working on a Netcool Impact implementation recently I ran across a feature of JavaScript regular expressions that really impressed me. I'll compare it to a somewhat similar feature/syntax in Perl.
If you need to test a string for a regular expression in Perl, you can do the following:
if ($mystring =~ /my_regular_expression/) ...
That will return true if $string contains the specified regular expression.
In JavaScript, you can invoke the test() method directly on the regular expression (including the leading and trailing "/") with one parameter, which is the string to test. Here's what the equivalent of the above looks like in JavaScript:
if (/my_regular_expression/.test(mystring)) ...
And to test if it doesn't match, the syntax is:
if (!/my_regular_expression/.test(mystring)) ...
That's it. I just thought it was pretty neat.
If you need to test a string for a regular expression in Perl, you can do the following:
if ($mystring =~ /my_regular_expression/) ...
That will return true if $string contains the specified regular expression.
In JavaScript, you can invoke the test() method directly on the regular expression (including the leading and trailing "/") with one parameter, which is the string to test. Here's what the equivalent of the above looks like in JavaScript:
if (/my_regular_expression/.test(mystring)) ...
And to test if it doesn't match, the syntax is:
if (!/my_regular_expression/.test(mystring)) ...
That's it. I just thought it was pretty neat.
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
APM historical data without a TEMS
IBM APM only directly supports the storage of up to 32 days of data. You've always had the option to store older data in the ITM 6 data warehouse, but setting up an entire ITM 6 infrastructure has always seemed like a whole lot of work. As it turns out, you don't have to set up the entire infrastructure! You oonly have to set up a warehouse proxy agent, summarization and pruning agent and the warehouse database. No TEMS or TEPS, as the WPA and SPA can work in autonomous mode.
Madhavan Vyk recently posted a great article on DeveloperWorks detailing exactly how to configure this:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/0587adbc-8477-431f-8c68-9226adea11ed/entry/Integrating_IBM_Cloud_APM_8_x_with_Tivoli_Data_Warehouse?lang=en
Monday, May 6, 2019
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager 1.1 is available with new observers
I've been busy, so I only just now saw that ASM 1.1 was released in April with a bunch of new observers. Observers are used to "observe" individual applications to provide additional data to the topology view(s) in ASM. Here's the download document:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043717
Below is the list of observers from that link. Some that I believe are new are ITNM, BigFix, ServiceNow, New Relic and DynaTrace.
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043717
Below is the list of observers from that link. Some that I believe are new are ITNM, BigFix, ServiceNow, New Relic and DynaTrace.
| Part | Description |
|---|---|
CC166EN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 Docker Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC167EN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 Event Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC168EN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 ITNM Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC169EN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 OpenStack Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16AEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 File Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16BEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 ALM Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16CEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 REST Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16DEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 TADDM Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16EEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 VMWare NSX Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16FEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 VMWare vCenter Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16GEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 DNS Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16HEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 Cisco ACI Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16IEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 Kubernetes Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
CC16JEN
|
IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 IBM Cloud Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English
|
| CC16KEN | IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 Juniper Contrail Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English |
| CC16LEN | IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 ServiceNow Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English |
| CC16MEN | IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v.1.1 New Relic Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English |
| CC16NEN | IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 BigFix Inventory Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English |
| CC16PEN | IBM Netcool Agile Service Manager v1.1 Dynatrace Observer (asm 1.1.4.1) - Linux 64bit English |
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