The IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact 3.1 is a five-day course designed for the system administrator responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the Netcool/Impact product.
The course takes students through practical exercises, teaching both common policies in use and covering key development concepts. After covering some introductory material, the class focuses on learning a new concept and applying that concept in a policy building lab. Each lab progressively builds upon previous labs, offering the students the opportunity to input policies and to debug and explore how each policy works. A Netcool/OMNIbus and sample relational database installation is available in class to use with the Netcool/Impact product.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, each student gains an understanding of the basic features and tools of Netcool/Impact, as well as gaining hands on experience in configuring data access, building policies, and views. Students learn how to:
Recognize the Impact interface and understand the product
Install Netcool/Impact on Unix servers
Understand and use the wizards available
Configure data access
Create and edit policies
Build typical policies including event enrichment and synthetic events injection
Develop configuration management projects
Build operator views and escalation policies
Build advanced correlation policies and suppression policies for events
Build time-based policies using hibernation
Understand Impact clustering
Course outline
Agenda - Day 1
Introduction to Netcool/Impact
Installation
Installing and Licensing Netcool/Impact Components
Configuring Netcool/Impact
Using the Wizards
Configuring Data Access
Administering Users, Groups and Roles via the Security Manager
Agenda - Day 2
Policy Building
Building Event Enrichment Policies
Using Configuration Management and Projects
Building Synthetic Event Policies
Agenda - Day 3
Building Operator Views
Building Escalation Policies
Building Advanced Event Correlation Policies
Agenda - Day 4
Building Advanced Event Correlation Policies
Building Time-based Policies - Using Hibernation
Building Event Suppression Policies
Impact Error Handling
Agenda - Day 5
Web Services Integration with Netcool/Impact
Impact Clustering
Who will benefit from this course
Network and systems management developers/engineers who are required to install, configure, maintain or support a Netcool/Impact system for the purposes of integration or advanced correlation.
Required skills/knowledge
An understanding of programming concepts – Conditional Statements, Variables, Loops, Objects and Arrays – is required. Solid fundamentals in UNIX environment administration is highly recommended. Understanding the fundamental concepts of database construction-SQL is recommended. Students who wish to actively participate in the Web Services Integration module should have a good understanding of web services systems (XML, WSDL, SOAP).
Attendance of the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Administration and Configuration Course and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.0 User courses are mandatory.
If you are unable to locate a course at the time and location you desire, including
training for prior product releases, please feel free to contact your regional delivery
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