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Audience

This intermediate level course is for System Administrators responsible for setting up workspaces, situations, monitoring agents, automation, and integration of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Deployment specialists will also benefit from this course.

Pre-Requisites

Prior to attending this course, you should have:

• Working knowledge of Linux
• Experience with event management
• Experience with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Working knowledge of Netcool/OMNIbus is suggested, but not required

You should also complete course IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals (TM021), prior to attending this course.

Objectives

• Create and manage queries to access data
• Construct links for easy portal navigation
• Build enterprise and private situation events
• Configure and manage agents running in autonomous mode
• Create and manage workflow automation with policies
• Create agentless monitoring
• Use Agent Management Services
• Integrate events with Netcool/OMNIbus
• Use commands effectively

Course Content

Unit 1: Queries

• Introduction and queries
• Creating a query against ODBC data

Unit 2: Links

• Understanding the different types of links
• Defining a simple, absolute link
• Defining a relative link
• Defining a dynamic link

Unit 3: Monitoring Your Enterprise Using Advanced Situation Techniques

• Expert advice
• Embedded and correlated situations

Unit 4: Agent Autonomy

• Agent autonomy overview
• Installation and configuration
• Private situations
• Netcool/OMNIbus integration

Unit 5: Working with Policies

• The Workflow Editor
• Creating a policy
• Workflow validation
• Activating the policy

Unit 6: Agentless Monitoring

• Agentless monitoring overview
• Agentless monitoring planning and configuration
• Agentless monitoring troubleshooting

Unit 7: Agent Management Services Workspace

• Monitoring the agents
• Components and configuration
• Take Action commands
• Agent Management Services Workspace

Unit 8: Managing Event Integration

• Integration points to other event repositories
• Configuration of situation event integration implementation
• EIF slot customization editor

Unit 9: Command Line Interfaces

• Getting started
• Deployment
• Working with situations and actions
• Navigators and workspaces
• Historical data commands
• Administering users with commands
• Group commands
• Event management
• Miscellaneous and itmcmd commands
• Simple Object Access Protocol

Scheduled Classes