Back in January 2005 I joined an existing San Francisco based company named Wily Technology. This was the beginning of a few years of hectic traveling, hacking and trouble-shooting. Meaning I traveled around in Europe, mostly UK and Germany, working at customer sites (some very large banks) helping them with performance and problem analysis of large Java EE systems.

The tool Wily provided was named Introscope and was the first tool in its market segment when it started in 1999 and was the market leader all the time. One of my key missions was developing (hacking) numerous extensions for Introscope based on customer requests or my own observation of what I though the customers (or we professional consultants) needed.

As part of my re-launch of Ribomation as an independent consultant I have partnered with CA-Wily to partly do what I once did for Wily. Wily Technology was later acquired by CA. During this spring I have helped a governmental institution in Northen Sweden with a roll-out of Introscope as a monitoring solution for their Java systems.

One specific task was to enable alert integration with Tivoli. Back at the Wily era, I wrote an alert action extension for OpenView integration. In this case, I decided to make the extension more general and versatile, ant not tied to any specific SMC tool. The end-result is now released as open source and can be found here: SMC AlertAction.