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Steve Howell
Steve Howell is a member of the OMNIbus Web GUI team, based in IBM's Bristol office in the UK, and has worked in both development and Level 3 support for OMNIbus. In total he has spent 10 years working on products in the Tivoli Netcool suite, covering the areas of performance, network change, and event management.
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Correcting a TNPM Tech Pack Install File for Prerequisite Version Checking
This article provides a solution in Tivoli Netcool Performance Mananager when TPDK tnpmw_packager generates the
Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus Probe Integrations
This article provides information about Tivoli Netcool probe integrations.
Building a TNPM Tech Pack Containing Multiple Rulesets
This article addresses the problem of when TNPMW Tech Packs may have been defined with multiple rulesets.
Determining Loader Performance Issues in Vendor-Neutral Tech Packs
When developing Tech Packs, there are potential TNPM loader performance issues in scenarios where there are multiple blocks to one table, or one block to many tables.