IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9 Advanced Rules Programming

1. Introduction
   • Introduction into course, objectives, pre-requisites.
2. Review of the TEC Architecture
   • The life of an event, Detailed TEC process description and configuration. Version Control
3. Default Rulesets
   • Preconfigured rule sets that provide support for processing common application and infrastructure events.
4. Files, Variables and Regular Expressions
5. List Processing and Backtracking
6. Building a Knowledge base.
   • Work with fact files, using the Prolog Compiler manually and using the Recorded Database
7. Custom templates.
   • Writing custom templates, and using "user_predicates"
8. The Causal Chain
   • Define a Causal Chain, work with the Event Sequence Predicates, and Event Criteria Predicates

The focus of the course will be on the practical nature of programming rules and consist of many hands-on activities.