I worked with this German company to enhance their Discovery and CMDB with various storage metadata and data from unsupported storage systems. I wrote extensive TPL code which integrated with APIs for NetApp, Dell Isilon, IBM Spetrum, and Nasuni.

For Nasuni I had to develop the whole model using data extracted from the APIs to model the Management Console, Volumes and Shares.

The outcome of this project was to allow the client to accurately track storage usage and billing.

During this time I also assisted the client in troubleshooting Azure discovery and retrieving additional matadata from VMware.

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I worked 3 short projects with a US-based energy company over a period of three years to develop customisations to the data pipeline to their CMDB. This was to enable a front-end form for application ownership selection. For this they needed specifically to be able to extract metadata from their IBM DB2, MSSQL, Oracle, MongoDB and MariaDB databases for promotion to the front-end display.

The solution involved custom TPL code applied to BMC Discovery, which used a combination of SQL connections of JDBC and API connectivity with MongoDB. Both Discovery and the CMDB sync connections needed to be modified to make it work.

MongoDB presented the most challenging connection as Discovery was not built for a direct integration, so the solution called for running the API retrieval queries directly on the server as it scanned, with a local encrypted text file which contained the API credentials. The output was then retrieved the normal way.

The solution allowed for the client to be able to correctly identify and assign ownership for their database dependent applications.

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I developed this with a mixture of Bash and Python, exporting the results to JSON and then converting to CSV. All code was handed to the client.

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