Help me use BMC Run Book Automation?
August 7, 2008 4:50 AM Subscribe
Does anyone have any experience with BMC Run Book Automation and/or XPATH/XSLT?
Gday all!
I've been nominated by my department to go to BMC Run Book Automation training to take a leading role in developing automated solutions. After my second day of training I'm, to be frank, very nervous about my ability to execute once training is complete.
I've come from a Windows background with experience in batch, vbs, powershell and various other scripting languages, but parsing XML structures using XSLT/XPath is limiting to say the least. When given an example to work at, my brain naturally leaps to structures I am familiar with, especially with string handling and matching. Its not helped by the abstraction that the Run Book Automation software provides.
So my main problem is when given something to work out, not knowing where to start mainly. Our instructor assures me this will just take practice, and I'm not the only one in the course struggling either.
Does anyone have any experience in these areas? Not necessarily looking for reassurance (though if others have felt this way and it all worked out OK in the end, that'd be great to hear) but more looking for forums to go to for examples/help. I have found some good XSLT examples, but many are XSLT 2 (and the product uses 1.1) and I can't find ANYTHING on anyone using the BMC Run Book product.
If it helps, I've spared you a dating/relationship filter question for this :)
Gday all!
I've been nominated by my department to go to BMC Run Book Automation training to take a leading role in developing automated solutions. After my second day of training I'm, to be frank, very nervous about my ability to execute once training is complete.
I've come from a Windows background with experience in batch, vbs, powershell and various other scripting languages, but parsing XML structures using XSLT/XPath is limiting to say the least. When given an example to work at, my brain naturally leaps to structures I am familiar with, especially with string handling and matching. Its not helped by the abstraction that the Run Book Automation software provides.
So my main problem is when given something to work out, not knowing where to start mainly. Our instructor assures me this will just take practice, and I'm not the only one in the course struggling either.
Does anyone have any experience in these areas? Not necessarily looking for reassurance (though if others have felt this way and it all worked out OK in the end, that'd be great to hear) but more looking for forums to go to for examples/help. I have found some good XSLT examples, but many are XSLT 2 (and the product uses 1.1) and I can't find ANYTHING on anyone using the BMC Run Book product.
If it helps, I've spared you a dating/relationship filter question for this :)
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in my experience, xslt is one of those things that hurts (and hurts) and then suddenly becomes clear. i just needed to keep using it.
i don't know if that helps - all i am really saying is that (1) it's not surprising it is painful and (2) don't give up. in my case, at least, the pain did eventually go away.
(being restricted to 1.1 is going to be a bit frustrating!)
posted by not sure this is a good idea at 5:04 AM on August 7, 2008