There are alternatives to purchasing IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact. Many NOCs require only simple automated diagnostics, notifications, and/or escalation processes. The purpose of this document is to explore Impact alternatives for these cases through either:
- Omnibus Automations and Database Fields
- Probe Rules and Database Fields
- Customized Scripts and Database Fields
Several case studies are provided within this document that fully document how this is done:
- Lights Out NOC: Automated notification and escalation.
- XinY: Flagging X Events occurring in Y period of time.
- Parent Child Event Hierarchy: For organizing events.
- Event Audit: What policy/automation/probe touched which events when.
- Impact Replacement: A Impact-like PERL script that emulates Impact behavior. Procedures to emulate policies can be written and embedded in the script to replace Impact functionality.
