We are pleased to announce the release of Xoom version 3.2. The release contains a major new command line tool, some other new features and also maintenance changes, such as bug fixes, stability improvements and improvements in the coverage of Service Optimization features. We summarise the changes below.
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Xoom 3.1.1 has been released
We are pleased to announce the release of Xoom version 3.1.1. This is a “hotfix” release containing mainly improvements in support for new Service Optimization features (in particular new scheme features since version 8.1.7) and bug fixes, as well as some improvements. We summarise the changes below.
Xoom 3.1 has been released
We are pleased to announce the release of Xoom version 3.1. This release brings various incremental improvements in performance, usability, expressiveness and stability. It also implements further steps in making Xoom a more generic configuration management solution for multiple products. We summarise the new features and bug fixes below.
Creating a Service Optimization corpus for Xoom (technical)
Xoom was able to mock a Service Optimization environment for the purposes of Xoom customisation and support since version 3.0. In version 3.1, this ability has been expanded, allowing a higher degree of control over what information is captured and how that information is used during environment reconstruction. Here we provide the information on how to create a corpus containing the captured communication.
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Xoom Installation
The process of installing Xoom is simple. It constitutes of running an installer supplied by Zany Ants and answering a handful of questions in order to allow Xoom to connect to the local installation of Service Optimization. The installer does the rest by checking the prerequisites, installing Xoom and, if necessary, registering custom components that are needed on Service Optimization side for Xoom to fully function.
Example business case for Xoom
This presentation presents a detailed business case for Xoom for a large Service Optimization customer. The business case is an example of the sort of savings that can be made when Xoom is used in a fairly simple way for configuration transportation and configuration versioning.
Upgrading with Xoom
Upgrading Service Optimization from 7.5.x to 8.1.x can be a complex, largely manual process that is subject to a lot of uncertainty and risk, and lacking a suitable tool chain. Xoom addresses many of these problems by supporting a fast, automated, customisable and repeatable upgrade process and a painless and well-tested production deployment.
Configuration versioning using Xoom (technical)
In this tutorial, we describe the steps to set up a scheduled task that at regular intervals acquires a configuration snapshot using Xoom and stores the resulting Xoom file into a Subversion repository. This results in the ability to see what changes, intended or not, were made to the configuration of the system at what time, and allows the user to effectively revert back to the configuration at any point in the past. Continue reading Configuration versioning using Xoom (technical)
Xoom 3.0 has been released
Xoom version 3.0 has been released. This release is built on top of the Windows Communication Foundation infrastructure, and exposes deeper Xoom functionality to client tools and scripts through web services. The release also features major performance and stability improvements, a new tool for implementing renames of settings in the context of a configuration clean-up, and a number of other enhancements. We summarise the new features and bug fixes below. Continue reading Xoom 3.0 has been released
Xoom 2.2.1 has been released
This is a hotfix release addressing Xoom 2.2. It fixes the version detection for the recent builds of Service Optimization 7.5 (which were erroneously identified as version 8 due to the use of the same kind of installer), and fixes a bug where an XML directive within an interpreted XML string caused Xoom to throw an exception.