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Audience

This intermediate-level course is for both novice and experienced TADDM practitioners, including implementers, administrators, and support personnel who work with TADDM V7.2.1.

Pre-Requisites

Prior to attending this course, you should have familiarity with basic Linux system administration and TCP/IP fundamentals.

Objectives

• Describe the overall functions of TADDM, deployment architectures, and the TADDM authentication model
• Configure TADDM for enterprise authentication
• Enable data-level user authorization
• Configure and run discoveries
• Define and run asynchronous discoveries
• Discover special resources
• Discover configuration files through Computer System Templates
• Configure and use custom server templates
• Provide Custom Sensor Extensions
• Use Application Descriptor Files
• Load external data into TADDM from Discovery Library Books
• Create a custom DLB using Tivoli Directory Integrator
• Use the Data Management Portal to analyze discovered data
• Manage Business Systems and Business Services using the Group Editor
• Create and manage dynamic collections
• Create and modify custom reports using BIRT
• Create custom reports using Cognos
• Perform migration from Synchronized to Streamed deployment
• Prepare the IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure for TADDM discovery
• Perform discovery through IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• Import DLBs from IBM Tivoli Monitoring and ITCAM
• Use the Monitoring Coverage Report
• Forward Change Events to IBM Tivoli Monitoring or IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus

Course Content

Day1: Overview and architecture

• Introduction
• TADDM overview and architecture
• TADDM installation overview
• Discovery

Day 2: Discovery

• Working with templates
• Extending discovery
• Business Systems and Business Applications
• Change History and Change Events
• Scripted and Asynchronous Discovery
• Synchronized deployment

Day 3: Integration

• Understanding the CDM
• Discovery Library Adapters and bulkload
• Reporting
• Context Menu Services and Date Integration Services
• Launch In Context

Day 4: Migration

• Streamed deployment
• Users, groups, roles, and collections
• Access control
• Troubleshooting

Day 5: IBM Tivoli Monitoring (optional)

• TADDM and IBM Tivoli Monitoring integration overview
• Discovery through IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring DLAs and monitoring coverage
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring self-monitoring
• Change Event forwarding to IBM Tivoli Monitoring

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