IBM Tivoli Monitoring manages the IT infrastructure including operating systems, databases and servers across distributed and host environments through a single customizable workspace portal.
Through a balance of lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to administer your IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) 6.2 environment. You map the architecture of key components and the flow of event data through the architecture. You set user access parameters to manage who sees various workspaces. You personalize workspaces to provide the key information required by various operators. You learn how to program automated responses to events, thus saving time.
Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Manage the infrastructure for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.
Monitor the enterprise through situation events and TEC events.
Automate problem resolution through actions and policies.
Visualize enterprise monitoring data.
Personalize workspaces through creating links.
Collect historical data, prune and summarize data, manage data retention, and create historical enterprise reports.
Manage ITM 6.2 users and control access to features and workspaces.
Course outline
6.2 Administrator
Overview and Administrative Tasks
Solution Demonstration
Tivoli Monitoring Services
Starting and stopping ITM Components
Managed Systems
Data Storage - Data Collection
Creating Agents
Monitoring your Enterprise
Situation Events and Situation Attributes
The Situation Editor
Building Situations
Situation Settings
Expert Advice
Managing Situations
Embedded and Correlated Situations
Building Situations against different agents
TEC Integration
Omnibus Integration
Actions and Automation
Overview
Take Action
Situation Actions
Policies
Visualizing Monitoring Data
Structuring the Enterprise in Logical Views
Organizing the Presentation
Defining Data Collection Rules
Navigating Monitoring Solution
Providing User Navigation
Defining a Simple Link
Creating Advanced Links
Advanced Link Usage Examples
Link Specifics
Historical Data Collection
Configuring Historical Data Collection in TEP
Configuring the Summarization and Pruning Agent
Embedding History Data in TEP
Managing Users and Publishing Workspaces
Create, Delete, and Customize User and Group Accounts in TEP
Change Permissions for Applications and Navigator Views
Publishing Workspaces
Who will benefit from this course
Primary audience is the system administrator tasked with setting up access, managing the workspaces, and analyzing historical data. Deployment specialists would also benefit from this course.
Required skills/knowledge
The following skills and areas of knowledge are required:
Ability to navigate through Windows applications.
Working knowledge of an Internet browser.
Experience with event management.
Working knowledge of TEC 3.9 suggested, but not required.
Working knowledge of system administration of Linux and Windows 2000.
For those new to ITM, IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Introduction Web-based course is recommended;
For those experienced with ITM, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 Differences Web-based course is recommended and IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Operators classroom course.
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