Groovy4Netcool

Automated acceptance test example for Netcool event enrichment solution

Posted November 6th, 2007 by berkay

Scenario: Customer uses Netcool Object Server for event management and requires the events to be enriched with data from a CMDB using RapidInsight. The device or link name will be used as the key to query the CMDB to get the information such as maintenance status, SLA level, location, etc. and populate event fields.
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Groovy4Netcool script example: updating an event field

Posted October 24th, 2007 by berkay

In the previous post, I'd announced the Groovy4Netcool project. In this follow up post, I'll go through a simple script as an example to demonstrate how it can be used. The objective is to work with an event in the Netcool server, to get the value of a field and update that value.

First, I should highlight the files in this project are NOT required to use groovy to work
with Netcool server. Groovy language has inherent support to work with database via jdbc. The files in this project provide an infrastructure to make it easier to work with Netcool so that one does not have to know or deal with JDBC and SQL,
although they are available.

First, I need to set the connection parameters for the Netcool server in the NetcoolDataSource.groovy file. read more »