OpenSLIM – ThinkInBig

Information Quality in OpenSLIM

Published May 29, 2010 by Carlos Veira

It's time to spend some time on a tough topic: Information Quality. OpenSLIM implement several functions whose main purpose is to guarant data coherence when one has to deal with certain IT Processes: Provisioning, Repairings, Decommissionings, and so forth. In these cases, Registration Criteria is hard-wired inside OpenSLIM and you don't need to worry about it unless you want to change it.

Unfortunately there still exist rules that you will have to settle if you want to have good levels on your Information Quality.…

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OpenSLIM v3.73b0 released!

Published May 10, 2010 by Carlos Veira

It’s finally here! This is the first release since the NMTools spin off. A lot has happened since then. In fact, there are many changes in the OpenSLIM roadmap that I would like to tell you over the course of the following weeks.

As every new version, this one represents an additional step forward in functionality and also in reliability. Here is the list of new additions and improvements that this new major release incorporates:

Systems Decommissioning Management.
Improvements on how Virtual Environments are handled.

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How to Deploy Software using NMTools

Published November 3, 2009 by Carlos Veira

On a previous article I showed some of the possibilities that PLEX modules introduced for our dayly tasks. I did consciously omitted any reference to software deployment at that moment for a number of reasons. The main one was that I consider this subject important enough to deserve its own chapter.

Deploying software can be achieved with regular modules, PLEX modules and, for those cases where complex conditions need to be considered when deploying one package, you can use the new DynX modules.…

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Possible uses for PLEX modules

Published October 17, 2009 by Carlos Veira

Here you have some possible samples that you may use as templates for your own purposes. In any case, the main goal of this post is give you an idea of what it is possible using PLEX modules.

The Samples or “Templates”

Remote log Distributed search using findstr.exe

"for /f `"tokens=*`" %i in ('dir /s /b *.log') do @findstr `"MyRegExPattern`" `"%i`"" | .\nmagent.ps1 -profile plex -cmd exec -src file -save

Remote log Distributed search using RSaR.exe. “RSaR” means “Regex Search and Rescue” and can be found at rsar.codeplex.com…

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OpenSLIM & NMTools v3.60b0 released!

Published October 12, 2009 by Carlos Veira

It’s finally here! Once again, this new version represents an additional step forward in functionality and also in reliability.

As previous versions, documentation is something I must work on. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to do it the way it should. But, I will be posting working samples, screenshots, and demo videos that will help on the training aspects of this tools.

Anyway, if you want to help with documentation or any other aspect, just let me know: I would love to build a team to make this project grow bigger and stronger.…

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The “Office+Scripting Solution”: The thinking behind OpenSLIM & NMTools

Published August 24, 2009 by Carlos Veira

At this point you might be wondering why OpenSLIM and why NMTools provided that there is plenty of software out there that seems to do the same or, at least, a similar work. And, yes, it's certainly a good question. Today, you can easily find IT Management Software to deal with Inventory, CMDB, Network Discovery, Distributed Configuration in many of the available software delivery flavors: Commercial, Open Source, ASP, etc… So, why?

The quick answer is that every solution has strengths, weaknesses and particular approaches that make them different even when they share the same market segment.…

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Some OpenSLIM & NMTools v3.33b0 screenshots

Published August 16, 2009 by Carlos Veira

Here you have some OpenSLIM & NMTools screenshots:

Hope this helps you figuring out what it looks like, what it does, and how it works ;-D.…

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OpenSLIM & NMTools v3.33b0!

Published August 15, 2009 by Carlos Veira

It's finally here! It's been a pretty hard task because this new version represents a very important step forward not only in functionality but also in reliability.

As previous versions, documentation is something I must work on. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do it the way it should. But, I will be posting working samples, screenshots, and demo videos that will help on the training aspects of this tools.

Anyway, if you want to help with documentation or any other aspect, just let me know: I would love to build a team to make this project grow bigger and stronger.…

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OpenOMS 1.2a3 and OpenSLIM 3.1b0 coming soon… :D

Published May 3, 2009 by Carlos Veira

Wow! It's been a really hard time! But we are finally here again. Lot of things have happened since my last post. One of the most significant was a extrange runtime issue with the OpenOMS live demo. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to find nor reproduce the source of the problem. So, I did finally take the decission to port the whole demo site to SourceForge servers. Now the site is already running, but I am still polishing some deatils related with the upgrade to Mantis 1.2a3 and also the required platform changes.…

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