keeps a ServiceNow developer instance awake, at least until the nightly snooze-all

snkeepalive.sh

#!/bin/bash

# put your instance id here
instance="dev######"
# make sure your password doesn't have shell operators in it
credentials="admin:password"

while true; do
    entropy=`rand`
    outdata="{\"short_description\":\"Automated incident $entropy\"}"
    curl --user $credentials \
        --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
        --header "Accept: application/json" \
        --request POST \
        --data "$outdata" \
        "https://$instance.service-now.com/api/now/table/incident"
    echo "\n\n"
    sleeptime="`rand -M 5`m"
    echo "created incident, waiting $sleeptime"
    sleep $sleeptime
done