We've recently introduced a new programmatic interface to Cassatt Active Response—the Cassatt Event Registration Interface, or CERI. Cassatt Active Response tracks all kinds system events in its environment. Using CERI, you can access this event stream and trigger other, automated actions in your environment. Say, for example, you want to populate a site CMDB with inventory data collected by Cassatt Active Response or to communicate with load balancing software to modify application node configuration. You can write a CERI client program to gather event data from the Cassatt event stream and use that information to automate other actions in the Cassatt Active Response environment.

CERI is distributed as a set of Java library classes and methods needed to register and authenticate requests from a calling application. CERI is available on the Cassatt Active Response distribution media as a JAR file. You simply place the JAR where you want your client program to run, ensure the JAR is in the classpath, and execute your client program.

If you're interested in giving CERI a try, take a look at this recently published article: Cassatt Event Registration Interface (CERI): Writing Client Programs for Use With Cassatt Active Response.

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We've just updated the site with new documentation you might be interested in:

• Sun RSC power controllers - Cassatt Active Response now manages Sun servers via their Remote System Control (RSC) interface. For more info, see Application Node Setup: Sun.
• SSDK - We've added a few new functions:
• startTierPersonalization() and completeTierPersonalization(), which support more sophisticated scripted automation activities.
• listFreeIPs() and reserveFreeIPs(), which provide a scripted way to identify and reserve IPs in the Cassatt Active Response environment.
• addCustomAttributeToTier(), which provides a scripted way to set a custom attribute on a specified tier. For the updated function descriptions, see the Scripting SDK Command Reference.

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