It takes hours to execute terraform and ansible jobs. What if I want ansible jobs to start immediately after my infrastructure gets provisioned through terraform jobs? How would one hand over the monitoring of running jobs to other human resources?  How would one get notified if a job fails?  IT-Conductor Git/Terraform/Ansible integration to promote Application  Infrastructure as Code is now GA per our Q1-2020 Features Announcement

Welcome to the Q3-edition of the latest automation features released by your preferred APM solution: IT-Conductor.
As a leading provider of APM solution, we strive to add more value to the services offered to our customers which enable them to meet changing business demands and focus more on core business competencies.
Our customers derive the benefit of adapting IT-Conductor to their complex infrastructure environment as well as leveraging on the customization capability, flexibility and agility that enable customers to accelerate growth, reduce cost and automate their infrastructure deployment.
Various user roles can make use of this latest functionalities for effective monitoring and management of their environment with improved user experience.

Identified as HotNews SAP Note #2934135 (CVE-2020-6287) in the July 2020 SAP Security Notes mentioned in our earlier blog SAP Security Patch Day, the RECON (Remotely Exploitable Code On NetWeaver) vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10 out of 10 (the most severe) and can potentially be exploited impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of mission-critical SAP applications.

In a previous post, We covered an overview of ITC's latest automation features, with a brief spotlight on the ITC Dashboard. This is one of the crucial tools in how we apply the core tenet of ITC: Minimize Noise > Maximize Performance and what it means to you.

Another exciting time is here again when we share with you a few of the improvement and additions we've made to IT-Conductor since the last quarter. We consider it imperative to continually provide our customers with solutions they need to meet their needs irrespective of the business challenges.
In this Q2-2020 edition, you will discover tools that will help you better monitor and manage your systems proactively.  A teaser for Q3, we're working on several common SAP deployment templates for end-to-end SAP/HANA systems provisioning and software installation through our Infrastructure-as-code automation.

Adding to our growing list of best-in-class APM solution features, this Q1-2020 edition introduces features that will further ease the mode of managing and automating business processes.

Earlier this week, we wrote about the importance of Best Practices for Remote Teams and remote management platform.  As you likely already know, on March 11, 2020, The WHO (World Health Organization) officially declared the COVID-19 a Pandemic.

As the world braces for panic from the Coronavirus (COVID-19), companies and households are under pressure to find efficient ways of working and communicating with limited contact. Since more than 3,000 deaths have occurred already, we have started to see airports implement travel bans, public schools closing, and people stocking up on household goods. Facebook, Google, SAP and Adobe have already announced the cancellation of their largest conferences of the year while they project lower than expected revenues throughout the year. Here’s a Coronavirus Update: Google I/O, Facebook F8 and more 2020 tech conference cancellations and travel bans.

Introduction

The following assessment, research and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculations are derived from real customer deployment, upgrades, industry surveys, and monitoring projects for the past 10 years across many size of customers.  It is intended to help with budgeting and measuring ROI before investing in Solman as a primary enterprise monitoring platform for SAP environment.