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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Peyton Manning's record-breaking run as quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts ended Wednesday, when owner Jim Irsay announced the team would release its best player.
"We all know that nothing lasts forever," Manning said. "Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL."
Manning and Irsay each paused frequently, fighting tears and their voices shaking, when they appeared together at a news conference at the Colts' team complex. It was an unusual and awkward scene, two men whose NFL lives have been so closely intertwined, standing side-by-side in jackets and ties as they told the world they were splitting up.
"This has not been easy for Jim," Manning said, "and this has certainly not been easy for me."
The 35-year-old Manning will become a free agent, and is expected to generate interest from a half-dozen or so NFL clubs, provided he's healthy. Manning is coming off a series of operations to his neck and missed all of last season when his team's record, not coincidentally, plummeted to 2-14.
Indianapolis needed to cut him this week to avoid paying him a $28 million bonus, although both Irsay and Manning insisted the decision was not really about money. The Colts are widely expected to begin moving on by taking Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck with the No. 1 overall pick in April's draft.
Irsay repeatedly used the word "rebuilding" and acknowledged: "We're definitely a few years away."
Manning won't retire and hopes to be playing in the NFL at the start of next season.
Still, he said Wednesday: "I'll always be a Colt. I always will be. That'll never change."
He forever will be thought of around these parts as No. 18, the quarterback who led the Colts to an NFL championship.
He'll be remembered, too, for his record four MVP awards, his 50,000 yards passing and his 200 consecutive starts. Most of all, Manning will be the guy in the horseshoe helmet who turned around a franchise and transformed a basketball-loving city into a football hotbed that hosted the Super Bowl a month ago.
Arizona, Miami, Tennessee, Washington and the New York Jets all have been rumored as possible destinations; Manning's former offensive coordinator in Indianapolis, Tom Moore, worked for the Jets as a consultant last season.
"There will be no other Peyton Manning," Irsay said, adding that he hoped Wednesday's joint appearance would serve to "honor incredible memories and incredible things that he's done for the franchise, for the city, for the state."
This marks the end of a remarkably successful marriage between a player and team.
Manning started every meaningful game for 13 seasons in Indianapolis - 227 in a row, including the playoffs - and took the Colts from perennial also-ran to one of the NFL's model franchises and the 2007 Super Bowl title.
In the two decades predating his arrival, the Colts won 116 games, one division title and made the playoffs three times. With Manning taking snaps, the Colts have won 150 games, eight division titles, two AFC championships and the franchise's first league championship since moving from Baltimore in 1984.
Indianapolis broke the NFL record for most regular-season wins in a decade (115), and tied Dallas' mark for most consecutive playoff appearances (nine).
Manning is one of four players with more than 50,000 yards passing, one of three with more than 350 TD tosses, and one of two quarterbacks with more than 200 starts in a row. He broke all of the franchise's major career passing records, previously held by Hall of Fame quarterback John Unitas.
In 2009, Manning led the Colts to the cusp of NFL history with a 14-0 start, fueling talk of an unbeaten season.
But it has been mostly bad news ever since.
The Colts pulled their starters against the Jets and lost the final two games that season. Indy then wound up losing to New Orleans in the Super Bowl. During the offseason, Manning had the first of his neck operations.
Then, after making an early playoff exit in the 2010 season, Manning underwent another neck surgery to repair a damaged nerve that was causing weakness in his throwing arm.
When the nerve did not heal as quickly as expected, Manning had two vertebrae fused in September, an operation that forced him to miss a game for the first time in his NFL career. There are still questions about the strength of Manning's arm.

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Read an excerpt of More Money Than God.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers in the United States and around the world have focused on the problem of "too big to fail" institutions, debating remedies ranging from higher capital requirements to proposals to break up large banks. In his book, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, CFR Senior Fellow Sebastian Mallaby argues that governments should instead encourage small-enough-to-fail hedge funds. Between 2000 and 2009, a total of about five thousand hedge funds went bust, but because they were too small to threaten the financial system, not a single one required a taxpayer bailout.
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The author, director of CFR's Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, writes that, despite the failure of these five thousand funds, the hedge fund sector as a whole survived the 2007–2008 mortgage bubble extraordinarily well compared with the banking industry. Mallaby outlines four reasons for this stark contrast:
- Regulation. The capital requirements on banks that accept deposits are intended to shore up the solvency of such institutions but, in some instances, allow banks to run their books in ways that the requirements suggest are safe, even when they are not. Conversely, hedge funds are far more likely to make their own risk decisions and thus frequently fared better.
- Incentives. "When [bank] traders take enormous risks, they earn fortunes if the bets pay off. But if the bets go wrong, they don't endure symmetrical punishment—the performance fees and bonuses dry up, but they do not go negative. . . . Hedge funds [on the other hand] tend to have 'high-water marks': If they lose money one year, they take reduced or even no performance fees until they earn back their losses."
- Distraction of multiple profit centers. "The banks' proprietary trading desks coexisted alongside departments that advised on mergers, underwrote securities, and managed clients' funds; sometimes the scramble for fees from these advisory businesses blurred the banks' investment choices."
- Culture. "Hedge funds live and die by their investment returns, so they focus on them obsessively. They are generally run by a charismatic founder, not by a committee of executives: If they see a threat to their portfolio, they can flip their positions aggressively."
Drawing on unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred hours of interviews and binders of internal documents, Mallaby charts the history of hedge funds, telling the stories of the industry's pioneers, from the undercover anti-Nazi activist A.W. Jones, to the philosopher-financier George Soros, to the cryptographer and mathematician James Simons. He concludes that to a surprising and unrecognized degree, "the future of finance lies in the history of hedge funds."
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Janus Adams: History repeats itself, too often and yet again
In 1955, when asked why she put her life on the line by refusing her seat to racism, Rosa Parks said, "I thought of Emmett Till."
With the killing of Trayvon Martin, a lot of people are thinking about Emmett Till these days. And, it's not just because George Zimmerman has yet to be arrested.
On August 31, 1955, the body of 14-year-old Emmett was found in the Tallahatchie River. Just ten days earlier, he had come to Mississippi for a visit with relatives. On his first day there, in the town of Money, Emmett was having fun with some local boys. He showed them pictures of his interracial school friends in Chicago and identified one as his girlfriend.
Kidding around, one of the local boys dared him to speak to a white woman in a nearby store. Emmett dared.
With this, the boys told him he'd better get away. Unaware of the rules of the South, Emmett didn't know to take their words seriously. Nor did he know to tell the relatives with whom he was staying what had happened. They would have known to get him out of town.
The following Sunday morning around 4 a.m., the family was awakened by intruders who struck Emmett's grandaunt in the head with a shotgun and demanded that his granduncle give them the boy "who did the talking."
Kidnapping Emmett, they vowed to kill everyone in the house if Wright called the sheriff. When Emmett didn't return later that morning, his cousin called the sheriff, and his and Emmett's mothers in Chicago.
Emmett was found dumped in the river that Wednesday. One eye gouged out, his forehead crushed, he'd been shot and his badly mutilated body was swollen beyond recognition.
And, now, here is the part where this history that has repeated itself far too many times, reaches Trayvon Martin.
Without permission from the family, the sheriff ordered Emmett's immediate burial.
In Trayvon's case, his body lay in the coroner's office for three days before his family was notified of his killing and, yes, George Zimmerman was not arrested, and the police permitted the destruction of evidence of his guilt -- or innocence -- e.g., clothing and possible residue.
Emmett's mother called everyone up to the governor to stop the burial. Giving in, the sheriff shipped the body to Chicago with orders not to open the casket. Mamie Till Bradley did.
What she saw so sickened her that she wanted the world to see it too: Lynching was not a victimless, nameless act. It bore the face of a child -- and scarred the lives of millions more.
Now, in the wake of Trayvon Martin's killing, children are again being scarred, and black parents -- tears in their eyes -- induct their children into a centuries-old rite of passage; destroying their children's innocent minds to save their racially vulnerable lives.
"The talk" explains what racism is and how it will very likely impact them. "The talk" tells black boys that they must pretzel themselves every which way to avoid being killed.
Where once, the talk warned black boys of being too friendly with white girls for fear of being lynched on the charge of "raping a white woman," the lynching of young Emmett added "eyeball rape" to the list -- i.e., looking at a white woman.
In more recent times, to the list of things that could get you killed and set your killers in "law enforcement" free have been added: standing in the vestibule of your own apartment (Amadou Diallo); telling a nuisance who turns out to be an undercover cop that you don't have drugs (Patrick Dorismond); being a journalist covering the march protesting the undercover cop's murder of Patrick Dorismond (Errol Maitland, beaten to near-death by police and arrested).
The list has expanded to include: walking to a friend's house holding a Three Musketeers candy bar with a silver wrapper that can be mistaken for a gun (Andre Burgess). Now, it's walking home in the rain with a bag of Skittles wearing a sweatshirt with a hood on your head (Trayvon Martin), meanwhile wannabe law enforcement goes free.
As a child, my mother and I marched on Washington. As a mother, my daughters and I marched for Amadou Diallo. Now I'm a grandmother; last week my daughter took her 10-year-old daughter to march for Trayvon.
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Chapter 1: The Inception
In which Carrotmob founder Brent Schulkin offers a personal reflection on how and why the Carrotmob idea came to exist.
I grew up in Northern California. Those of you who were hip to the children's literature scene in 1990 no doubt remember the quadruple platinum blockbuster hit, "50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save The Earth." I was 9 or 10 when I got my copy, and it was on fire, at least among the 9 year old intelligentsia crowd who was looking for something more meaningful than "Where's Waldo?" books. I mention this book because I think it made an impression on me. It's a trivial footnote to the story, but I believe a seed was planted then, grew without my knowledge for another decade, and finally bloomed into an interest in "save the world" advocacy once I got to college.
In college I developed an interest in how societal systems worked, and got really curious about how we might change systems that weren't working well. Meanwhile I developed a voracious appetite for learning more about all sorts of social and environmental issues. As I grew to understand the scale of certain problems, and the causes of those problems, I started experimenting with different ways to drive change. I took a tour of the classic methods used by the world's changemakers: Petitions. Boycotts. Educational film screenings. Marches. Protests. Stuff like that. It generally felt good to be *doing something,* but sometimes it also felt dumb, naive, ineffective, and doomed to failure. I had passion. I had my values. Usually I even knew what I wanted. But I didn't have methods that I was happy with.
As I looked at the roots of all the problems in the world, I began to see powerful businesses at every turn, and it became very easy to blame businesses for all the world's ills:
"These awful things wouldn't happen, if only businesses would do things differently! How dare that business turn a blind eye to such a big problem that it could help solve? Doesn't it want to help? What is motivating these people? People? Are business decisions made by people or are we dealing with something else? Why do businesses behave the way they do?"
I should also note that I didn't study business. I wasn't interested in working in the business world. It didn't resonate with me. I didn't take a single economics or finance class during my whole time at Stanford. I wasn't anti-business or anything, but I definitely perceived the world of business as an "other."
In late 2002, the Stanford campus was simmering with anger over US plans to invade Iraq. Passions ran high, and many of us were doing what all humans tend to do: demonizing the opposition. How could [insert person you disagree with] be so [insert insulting adjective]! I strongly opposed any invasion. Around the same time, I had the opportunity to eat some thai food in Palo Alto with Paul Wolfowitz, who at that time was the Deputy Secretary of Defense, helping to craft plans for the invasion. It turns out that sometimes the people we disagree with most vehemently are still very smart, nice, and quite human, no matter what mental caricatures we might prefer to dream up about them. That great experience made it clear to me just how foolish it is to demonize your opposition. The smart move is to understand your opposition.
On the night of the invasion I reacted by trying to exert my influence in the only way I knew how: Late at night, a team of a dozen of us drove up to San Francisco to some empty house undergoing construction in Parnassus Heights. For 3 or 4 hours we all lay on the floor, pretending to sleep. But I don't think anyone slept for even a minute. I knew that in a few hours I was going to be well outside of my "comfort zone." And no one likes being out of their comfort zone. But I also knew that I had to do something. I had to say something. That's what good citizenship demands. At 5am, we got up, and joined thousands of others in protest. I had been trained as a legal observer, so my role was to film what happened in order to deter police brutality (this was before YouTube and camera phones, so there weren't very many cameras around). When your peaceful friends are getting pepper sprayed and arrested it certainly feels like you're doing something significant. But the day after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest, I looked for any evidence that we had accomplished something. We had not. I had a hard time understanding that so much energy and passion and effort had not accomplished anything tangible whatsoever. Of course, there is inherent value in making your voice heard, and sometimes protests have better results than we had, but the takeaway for me was that I really wanted to find a more results-oriented approach. Causing a ruckus in SF was not results-oriented. The smart move would have been to focus on where the power was.
Here's a classic cliche narrative: College student gets passionate about issues, pursues silly idealistic projects, brutal reality crushes dreams, real world responsibilities mount, and amidst the demands of career or family, plans to "change the world" are rationalized away into oblivion. We've all seen this pattern. Why do people give up on advocacy? I think it's because of the constant failure. If you are the type of person who goes to protests or signs lots of petitions, you fail constantly. With the exception of Cubs fans, most people reach a point where they aren't going to keep showing up if they're really unlikely to win. I suspect that every time an attempt at advocacy fails pathetically, a few more people give up on advocacy itself. Once most normal people are gone, sometimes the only hard-core people left at the protests are a bit kooky, a bit radical, and all the more ineffective. This downward spiral of failure frustrated me, but rather than letting it alienate me, I kept thinking about ways to make advocacy more likely to succeed.
I applied the lessons I had learned from the Iraq invasion to my feelings about business:
- It's foolish to demonize businesses for behaving badly
- The smart move is to understand businesses
- If businesses have most of the power to create change, then the results-oriented advocate will focus on where the power is: with business
I began to change my attitude about the business world.
In this context, I was reading a book by Howard Rheingold, called Smart Mobs. Suddenly, about halfway through that book, I became unable to continue reading. I kept trying, but had to just sit there and think. Time slowed down. That was Carrotmob's moment of inception.
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Facebook Friend Count Linked to Brain Density [STUDY]
All those hours you spend on Facebook may be adding grey matter, signifying greater density, to the part of your brain linked to social skills. Or, perhaps, people with larger areas of the brain for social skills may just have higher than average Facebook friend counts.
That's the chicken-and-egg problem researchers at University College London are grappling with after finding a connection between brain structure and Facebook activity. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, was based on MRIs of a group of 165 adults who were asked to report the number of Facebook friends they have. (The study doesn't delineate what is considered "high," though it refers to Dunbar's Number, which postulates 150 friends is the limit of the average person's social circle.)
The research discovered that those with higher Facebook friend counts had more grey matter density in the amygdala, an area the study says was already known to be linked to real world social network size, as well as in other regions including the right entorhinal cortex, which is associated with memory.
"Taken together, our findings show that the number of social contacts declared publicly on a major web-based social networking site was strongly associated with the structure of focal regions of the human brain," the researchers conclude.
Professor Geraint Rees, director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, told The Guardian it's too early to tell how the structure of the brain and online social networking activity are connected. "What we're attempting to do is get an empirical handle using the types of data we can generate to try and start that process rolling."
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The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee is stepping down. The organization announced Scott Blackmum's resignation as CEO yesterday, citing health issues related to prostate cancer. In the past, Blackmum has been praised for his efforts to improve relations with the International Olympic Committee and for leading a successful bid to return the summer games to Los Angeles in 2028. He has also been the subject of controversy in recent months, following sex abuse scandals involving several American sports organizations, including USA Gymnastics.
The U.S. Olympic Committee named board member Susanne Lyons as interim CEO.
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Tivoli Business Service Manager can calculate amazing things for you, if you only need them. This is thanks to the powerful rules engine being the key part of TBSM as well as the Netcool/Impact policies engine running just under the hood together with every TBSM edition. You can present your calculation results later on on a dashboard or in reports, depending if you think of a real time scorecard or historical KPI reports.
In this article, I'll show how you can make TBSM to process its inputs by triggering various template rules in various ways. It is something that isn't really well documented or at least it isn't well documented in a single place.
Status, numerical and text rules triggers
In this chapter I'll show three kinds of rules (status, numerical and text) and I'll show how TBSM triggers them, so processes the input data, runs them and returns the outputs.
In general these three techniques always kick off TBSM rules based on the same two conditions: time and a new value. Here they are:
- Omnibus Event Reader service (for incoming status rules or numerical rules or text rules based on Omnibus ObjectServer as the data feed)
- TBSM data fetchers (for numerical or text rules with fetcher based data feed)
- TBSM/Impact services of type Policy activator (using Impact policy with PassToTBSM function calls to send data to numerical or text rules)
Make note. There are ITM policy fetchers as well as highly undocumented any-policy fetchers configurable in TBSM, I'll not comment on them in this material, however their basis is just like any fetcher: the time.
Let's take a look at the first type of rules triggers, the most popular, the OMNIbus Event Reader service in Impact, widely used in TBSM to process events stored in ObjectServer against the service trees.
OMNIbus Event Reader
Omnibus Event Reader is an Impact service running regularly by default every 3 seconds in order to connect Netcool/OMNIbus for getting events stored in the Objectserver memory that might be affecting TBSM service tree elements. It selects the events based on the following default filter:
(Class <> 12000) AND (Type <> 2) AND ((Severity <> RAD_RawInputLastValue) or (RAD_FunctionType = '')) AND (RAD_SeenByTBSM = 0) AND (BSM_Identity <> '')
(Severity <> RAD_RawInputLastValue) is the condition ensuring that event will be tested against containing a new value in the Severity field comparing to the previous event.
The Event Reader itself can be found in Impact UI server within Services page in TIP among other services included in the Impact project called TBSM_BASE:
Make note. TBSM allows you configuring other event readers but you can use just one same time.
All incoming status rules use this Event Reader by default. There's embedded mapping between the name of the Event Reader and the Data source field in Status/Text/Numerical rules, hence just "ObjectServer" caption occurs in the new rule form:
Policy activators
Impact services of type Policy activators simply call a policy every defined period of time and run that policy.
The policy needs to be created earlier. In order to trigger TBSM rules, it is required to call PassToTBSM() function and contain in its argument an object. Let's say this is my TBSMTreeRulesHeartbeat policy:
Seconds = GetDate(); Time = LocalTime(Seconds, "HH:mm:ss"); randNum = Random(100000); ev=NewEvent("TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService"); ev.timestamp = String(Time); ev.bsm_identity = "AnyChild"; ev.randNum = randNum; PassToTBSM(ev); log(ev);
In my example, a new value generates every time when the policy is activated by using GetDate() function. Pay attention to field called ev.bsm_identity. I'll be referring to this field later on. For simplification this field has always value "AnyChild".
Make note. Unlike TBSM OMNIbus event reader, the policy activating services, also policies themselves don't have to be included in TBSM_BASE impact project.
Netcool/Impact policies give you freedom of reaching to any data source, via SQL or SOAP or XML or REST or command like or anyhow you like, and processing any data you can see useful to process in TBSM. The only requirement is passing that data to TBSM via PassToTBSM function.
TBSM data fetchers
TBSM datafetchers combine an Impact policy with DirectSQL function call and Impact policy activator service. Additionally, data fetchers have a mini concept of schedule, it means you can set their run time interval to specific hour and minute and run it once a day (i.e. 12:00 am daily). It also allows postponing or rushing next runtime in case of longer taking SQL queries.
Make note. Data fetchers can be SQL fetchers, ITM policy fetchers or any policy fetchers, unfortunately the TBSM GUI was never fully adjusted to reconfigure ITM policy fetcher and was never enabled to allow configuration of any policy fetchers and in case of the last two you've got to perform few manual and command-line level steps instead. Fortunately, the PassToTBSM function available in Impact 6.x policies can be used instead and the any-policy fetchers aren't that useful anymore.
Every fetcher by default runs every 5 minutes.
In the example presented on the screenshot above data fetcher connects DB2 database and runs DB2 SQL query. The new value is ensured every time in this example by calling the native DB2 random function and the whole query is the following:
select 100000*rand() as "randNum", 'AnyChild' as "bsm_identity" from sysibm.sysdummy1
Pay attention to field bsm_identity. It always returns the same value "AnyChild", just like the policy explained before.
Triggering status, numerical, text and formula rules
In the previous chapter I presented various rules triggering methods. It's now time to show how those triggers work in real. I'll create a template with 5 numerical and text rules (I don't want to change any instance status, so I won't create any incoming status rule this time) and additionally with 3 supportive formulas and I'll present the output values of all those rules on a scorecard in Tivoli Integrated Portal. Below you can see my intended template with rules:
OMNIbus Event Reader-based rules
Let's start from 2 rules utilizing the TBSM OMNibus Event Reader service. Like I said, I won't use a status rule, but I'll use one text and one numerical rule, in order to return the last event's severity and the last event's summary. Before I do it, let me configure my simnet probe that will be sending random events to my ObjectServer. My future service instance implementing the t_triggerrulestest template will be called TestInstance (or at least it will have such a value in its event identifiers), I want one event of each type and various probability that such event will be sent:
####################################################################### # # Format: # # Node Type Probability # # where Node => Node name for alarm # Type => 0 - Link Up/Down # 1 - Machine Up/Down # 2 - Disk space # 3 - Port Error # Probability => Percentage (0 - 100%) # ####################################################################### TestInstance 0 10 TestInstance 1 15 TestInstance 2 20 TestInstance 3 25
Let's see if it works:
So now my two rules, I marked important settings with green. So my Data feed is ObjectServer, the source is SimNet probe, the field containing service identifiers is Node and the output value taken back is Severity:
Same here, this time the rule is Text rule and I have a fancy output expression, it is:
The rule itself:
Fetcher-based rule
That was easy. Now something little bit more complicated, the data fetcher. I already have my datafetcher created and show above in this material, let's check if it works fine, the logs shows the fetcher is fine, i.e. if it fetches data every 5 minutes:
1463089289272[HeartbeatFetcher]Fetching from TBSMComponentRegistry has started on Thu May 12 23:41:29 CEST 2016 1463089289287[HeartbeatFetcher]Fetched successfully on Thu May 12 23:41:29 CEST 2016 with 1 row(s) 1463089289287[HeartbeatFetcher]Fetching duration: 00:00:00s 1463089289412[HeartbeatFetcher]1 row(s) processed successfully on Thu May 12 23:41:29 CEST 2016. Duration: 00:00:00s. The entire process took 00:00:00s 1463089589412[HeartbeatFetcher]Fetching from TBSMComponentRegistry has started on Thu May 12 23:46:29 CEST 2016 1463089589427[HeartbeatFetcher]Fetched successfully on Thu May 12 23:46:29 CEST 2016 with 1 row(s) 1463089589427[HeartbeatFetcher]Fetching duration: 00:00:00s 1463089589558[HeartbeatFetcher]1 row(s) processed successfully on Thu May 12 23:46:29 CEST 2016. Duration: 00:00:00s. The entire process took 00:00:00s
And the data preview looks good too:
My next rule will be just one and it will be a numerical rule to return the randNum value, I marked important settings in green again, so I select HeartbeatFetcher as the Data Feed, I select bsm_identity as service event identifier and randNum as the output value:
Policy activated rules
Last but not least I will create two rules getting data from my policy activated by my custom Impact Service. I did show the policy and the service in the previous chapter, let's just make sure they both work ok. This is how the service works, every 5 minutes I get my policy activated and every time it returns another value in the randNum field:
12 maj 2016 23:41:29,652: [TBSMTreeRulesHeartbeat][pool-7-thread-87]Parser log: (PollerName=TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService, randNum=71648, timestamp=23:41:29, bsm_identity=AnyChild) 12 maj 2016 23:46:29,673: [TBSMTreeRulesHeartbeat][pool-7-thread-87]Parser log: (PollerName=TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService, randNum=8997, timestamp=23:46:29, bsm_identity=AnyChild) 12 maj 2016 23:51:29,674: [TBSMTreeRulesHeartbeat][pool-7-thread-91]Parser log: (PollerName=TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService, randNum=73560, timestamp=23:51:29, bsm_identity=AnyChild) 12 maj 2016 23:56:29,700: [TBSMTreeRulesHeartbeat][pool-7-thread-91]Parser log: (PollerName=TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService, randNum=60770, timestamp=23:56:29, bsm_identity=AnyChild) 13 maj 2016 00:01:29,724: [TBSMTreeRulesHeartbeat][pool-7-thread-92]Parser log: (PollerName=TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService, randNum=55928, timestamp=00:01:29, bsm_identity=AnyChild)
Let's then create the rules. I will have two rules again, one numerical and one text. The numerical rule will have the TBSMTreeRuleHeartbeatService as the Data Feed, the bsm_identiy field will be selected as the service event identifier field and randNum field will be my output:
Make note. Every time you add another field to your policy activated by your service, make sure that new field is mapped to the right data type in the Customize Fields form. You will need to add that field first:
And the second rule looks the following, this time it is a text rule and I return the timestamp value:
Formula rules
The last rules I'll create will be three formula, policy-based, text rules. Each of them will go to another rules create previously and "spy" on their activity. Let's see the first example:
This rule will use policy and will be a text rule. It is important to mark those fields before continuing, later the Text Rule field greys out and inactivates. After ticking both fields I click on the Edit policy button. All three rules will look the same at this level; hence I won't include all 3 screenshots as just their names will differ. I'll create another policy in IPL for each of them. Here's the mapping:
Rule name
Policy name
Each policy of those three will look similar, it will just look after different rules created so far. The p_triggered_by_events policy will do this:
// Trigger numr_event_lastseverity // Trigger txtr_event_lastsummary Seconds = GetDate(); Time = LocalTime(Seconds, "HH:mm:ss"); Status = Time; log("TestInstance triggered by SimNet events at "+Time); log("Output value of numr_event_lastseverity: "+InstanceNode.numr_event_lastseverity.Value); log("Output value of txtr_event_lastsummary: "+InstanceNode.txtr_event_lastsummary.Value);
Policy p_triggered_by_fetcher will do this:
// Trigger numr_fetcher_randnum Seconds = GetDate(); Time = LocalTime(Seconds, "HH:mm:ss"); Status = Time; log("TestInstance triggered by HeartbeatFetcher at "+Time); log("Output value of numr_fetcher_randnum: "+InstanceNode.numr_fetcher_randnum.Value);
And policy p_triggered_by_service this:
// Trigger numr_heartbeat_randnum // Trigger txtr_heartbeat_lasttime Seconds = GetDate(); Time = LocalTime(Seconds, "HH:mm:ss"); Status = Time; log("TestInstance triggered by TBSMHeartbeatService at "+Time); log("Output value of numr_heartbeat_randnum: "+InstanceNode.numr_heartbeat_randnum.Value); log("Output value of txtr_heartbeat_lasttime: "+InstanceNode.txtr_heartbeat_lasttime.Value);
You can notice that each policy starts from a comment section. This is important. This is how the formula rules get triggered. It is enough to mention another rule by its name in a comment to trigger your formula every time that other referred rule returns another output value. This is why we have the randnum-related rules in every formula. Those rules are designed to return another value every time they run. Just the first rule isn't the same, but I assume it will trigger every time a combination of Summary, AlertGroup and AlertKey fields value in the source event changes.
The trigger numerical or text rules are also mentioned later when these policies call them and obtain their output values in order i.e. to put those values into log file. But it is not necessary to trigger my formulas. I log those trigger text and numerical rules outputs for troubleshooting purposes only.
The purpose of these 3 policies and 3 formulas is to report on time when the numerical or text values worked for the last time.
Below you can see an example of one of the policies in actual form.
Testing the triggers
Now it's time to test the trigger rules, the triggers and troubleshoot in case.
Triggering rules in normal operations
In order to do that we will need a service instance implementing our newly created template. I call it TestInstance and this is its base configuration:
It is important to make sure that the right event identifiers were selected in the Identification Fields tab. I need to remember what bsm_identity I set in all rules, it is mainly AnyChild (the policy and the fetcher) and TestInstance (the SimNet probe).
Make note. In real life your instance will have its individual identifiers like TADDM GUID or ServiceNow sys_id. It is important to find a match between that value and the affecting events or matching KPIs and if this is necessary to define new identifiers, which will ensure such a match.
Let's see if it works in general. I created a scorecard and a page to present on all values of my new instance. I'll put on top also fragments of my formula related policy logs to see if the data returned in policies and timestamps match:
Let's take a closer look at the first section. Same event arrived just once but since formula is triggered by two rules it was triggered twice in a row. In general the last event arrived at 20:27:00 and its severity was 4 (major) and the summary was on Link Down. Both rules numr_event_lastseverity and txtr_event_lastsummary triggered m formula correctly.
The next section is about the fetcher, the latest random number is 16589,861 and the rule numr_fetcher_randnum triggered my formula correctly.
The last is the policy activated rule and formula, let's see. This time I have two rules again and they both triggered the formula correctly. The last run was at 20:26:30. I have two different randnum values in both runs. This is caused by referring to numerical rules twice in my formula policy.
Triggering rules after TBSM server restart
I'll now show a problem that TBSM has with rules that are not triggered by any trigger. Like I said in the previous chapters, TBSM needs rules to be triggered every now and then but also the value to change between triggers, in order to return the value again.
It causes some issues in TBSM server restart situations. If a value hasn't changed before server restart and is still the same after the restart, TBSM may be unable to display or return it correctly, if the rule used to return it is not triggered. Server restart situation means clearing TBSM memory so no output values of no rules are preserved for after the server restart.
Here's an example. I'll create one new formula rule with this policy in my test template:
Status = ServiceInstance.NUMCHILDREN; log("Service instance "+ServiceInstance.SERVICEINSTANCENAME+" ("+ServiceInstance.DISPLAYNAME+") has children: "+Status);
Here's the rule itself:
As next step, I add one more column to my scorecard to show the output of the newly created rule. I also created 3 service instances and made them a child to TestInstance instance.
Also my formula policy log will return number 3:
13 maj 2016 12:17:56,664: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-34 [TransBlockRunner-2]]Parser log: Service instance TestInstance (TestInstance) has children: 3
Now, if I only restart TBSM server, the value shown will be 0 and I will see no new entry in the log:
I can change this situation by taking one of three actions:
- Adding new or removing old child instances from Testinstance
- Modifying the formula policy
- Introducing a trigger to the formula policy
However two first options don't protect me from another server restart situation occurring.
Let's say I add another child instance. This is how the scorecard will look like:
Before the restart
After the restart
Or I may want to modify my rule. After saving my changes, the value will display correctly. However another server restart will reset it back to 0 again anyway.
So let's say I change my policy to this:
Status = ServiceInstance.NUMCHILDREN; log("Service instance "+ServiceInstance.SERVICEINSTANCENAME+" ("+ServiceInstance.DISPLAYNAME+") has children: "+Status); log("Service instance ID: "+ServiceInstance.SERVICEINSTANCEID);
And my policy log now contains two entries per run:
13 maj 2016 12:56:07,023: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-4 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance TestInstance (TestInstance) has children: 4 13 maj 2016 12:56:07,023: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-4 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance ID: 163
But the situation before and after the restart is the same:
Before the restart
After the restart
It's not a frequent situation though. If your rules are normally event-triggered rules or data fetcher triggered rules you can expect frequent updates to your output values even after your TBSM server restarts. Just in case you want to present an output value in a rule that normally is not triggered, make sure you include a reference to a trigger in your rule. Let's use one of the triggers we configured previously in my new formula policy:
// Trigger by numr_fetcher_randnum // Trigger by numr_heartbeat_randnum Status = ServiceInstance.NUMCHILDREN; log("Service instance "+ServiceInstance.SERVICEINSTANCENAME+" ("+ServiceInstance.DISPLAYNAME+") has children: "+Status); log("Service instance ID: "+ServiceInstance.SERVICEINSTANCEID);
You can already notice by following the log of the policy that there are many entries per every policy run, precisely as many entries as many times the formula was triggered by one of the trigger rules.
The first pair of entries was added after saving the rule. The next 2 pairs were added in result of the triggers working fine:
13 maj 2016 13:22:36,837: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-3 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance TestInstance (TestInstance) has children: 4 13 maj 2016 13:22:36,837: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-3 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance ID: 163 13 maj 2016 13:24:12,833: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-3 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance TestInstance (TestInstance) has children: 4 13 maj 2016 13:24:12,833: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-3 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance ID: 163 13 maj 2016 13:24:18,465: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-3 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance TestInstance (TestInstance) has children: 4 13 maj 2016 13:24:18,465: [p_numchildren][pool-7-thread-3 [TransBlockRunner-1]]Parser log: Service instance ID: 163
Let's make the final test, so TBSM server restart:
Before the restart
After the restart
It seems working fine now!
This excercise ends my material for tonight. I'll continue in another material on triggering the status propagation rules and numeric aggregation rules. See you soon!


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