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==$RANDOM
    outdata="{\"short_description\":\"Automated incident $entropy\"}"
    curl --user $credentials \
        --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
        --header "Accept: application/json" \
        --request POST \
        --data "$outdata" \
        "https://$instance.service-now.com/api/now/table/incident"
    echo "\n\n"
    # Change the 1200 to the max number of time you need for the timer
    # This is using seconds but if you need minutes, change the s to m
    sleeptime=$(($RANDOM % 1200))s
    echo "created incident, waiting $sleeptime"
    sleep $sleeptime
done

I was getting an error using rand so I changed it to use $RANDOM and now it works.