So got the ITRM 3.2 media and did a quick trial install.
No standard plan for ITRM was available in the install files so had to ask a favour of our friendly presales dudes to get their other friendly dude in the office to generate one for me.
Why can’t I generate my own install plans as a customer?
But as always the NZ guys came through quickly and the plan arrived.
The install on Windows 2008 R2 was painless, with the installer installing all the necessary components, SAS Foundation, Metadata, ITRM Client and Server and even deployed flawlessly into the Oracle Weblogic 10.3 instance I had cooked previously.
So we are now working through how to create the IT Data Mart, load the SCOM logs and then access the prebuilt reporting suite.
The good news is it looks like the ITRM content is all out of the box again (aka ITRM 2,7) so my rant about the ITRM 3.1 product just being a licensed bundle of DI and eBI with no content and no real how to assemble instructions is now null-in-void.
Two points (segway to blog title 
I note about my first look at ITRM:
- The Data Integration side is delivered by a new ITRM Client (Fat Java client like Management Console etc) but the development team has obviously taken the DI Studio 4.21 core and extended it. Good work, means we are familiar with the UI and they have leveraged all the development (and more importantly the testing) before them.
- The reporting side is a different story however. ITRM comes with a reporting interface called Gallery Manager. Now don’t get me wrong Gallery Manager is cool, it has coverflow capabilities, great drag and drop capability and cool integration with Enterprise Guide. But the issue is why would they create a new reporting UI and capability rather than just reuse whats in WRS and BI Dashboards, or at least enhance the eBI capability with these features? Having said that I haven’t seen the eBI 4.3 clients yet (are they still scheduled for October I wonder?) so maybe I am talking through my preverbal. Only time will tell.
So anyway lets see how it all goes once we have these SCOM logs loaded.
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