This 5 day course is designed to address all aspects of IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact. Students will undertake practical exercises throughout the course, built to teach both common policies in use and to cover key development concepts. Students should plan on attending the entire course as concepts will be built upon throughout the length of the course. In the lab exercises a Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and sample relational database will be available in class to use with the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product. After some introductory material, the class will focus on learning a new concept then applying that concept in a policy building lab. Each lab will progressively build on previous labs, offering the students not just the opportunity to input policies, but to debug and explore how each works.
Objectives
After completing this course, students should be able to accomplish the following:
Install the components for the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product
Access and use the policy building wizards
Understand how Impact processes events from the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer
Administer users, groups and roles as they affect how Tivoli Netcool/Impact functions
Use the policy building tools
Build Impact policies using proper syntax and utilizing supplied Action Functions
Understand and implement Impact error handling and high-availability solutions
Understand how Tivoli Netcool/Impact integrates with such 3rd party applications and technologies like Instant Messaging, e-mail and web services
Course outline
Day 1
Introduction
Working with Data
Creating a Policy Using the Event Enrichment Wizard
Creating a New Policy
Extending the Policy
Day 2
Synthetic Events
Organizing and Debugging Policies
Advanced Correlation Policies
Day 3
More Advanced Correlation Policies
Notification Policies
Generic Event Readers
Controlling Policy Execution Sequence and Threading Behavior
Day 4
The Operator View
Working with Web Services
Impact Installation and Configuration
Impact Administration
Day 5
Impact Administration Continued
Clustering and Failover
Who will benefit from this course
This is an advanced course intended for implementors and developers of the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product. The majority of this course focuses on developing advanced event correlations and integrations with the Tivoli Netcool suite of products. Students should have some background in software/systems development.
Required skills/knowledge
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Administration and configuration
Web Services Architecture knowledge
UNIX administrative skills
Background in software or systems development techniques
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training for prior product releases, please feel free to contact your regional delivery
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