TM061 - IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal Advanced Administration 6.2.2

Table of Contents:

• Course Description
• Objectives
• Course Outline
• Who Will Benefit From This Course
• Required Skills/Knowledge
• Recommended Courses  

Course description

In this 2-day course you learn how to administer the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Tivoli Enterprise Portal is used by IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager, and OMEGAMON XE and DE to manage your enterprise environment. You will learn about creating queries, links, situations (enterprise and private), agent autonomy, policies, commands, agentless monitoring, and event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus and Tivoli Enterprise Console.

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Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• 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.

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Course Outline

1. Queries
   1. Lesson 1: Introduction and queries 
   2. Lesson 2: Creating a query against ODBC data
2. Links 
   1. Lesson 1: Understanding the different types of links 
   2. Lesson 2: Defining a simple, absolute link 
   3. Lesson 3: Defining a relative link 
   4. Lesson 4: Defining a dynamic link
3. Monitoring Your Enterprise Using Advanced Situation Techniques
   1. Lesson 1: Expert advice 
   2. Lesson 2: Embedded and correlated situations
4. Agent Autonomy 
   1. Lesson 1: Agent autonomy overview 
   2. Lesson 2: Installation and configuration 
   3. Lesson 3: Private situations 
   4. Lesson 4: Netcool/OMNIbus integration
5. Working with Policies 
   1. Lesson 1: The Workflow Editor 
   2. Lesson 2: Creating a policy 
   3. Lesson 3: Workflow validation 
   4. Lesson 4: Activating the policy
6. Agentless Monitoring
   1. Lesson 1: Agentless monitoring overview 
   2. Lesson 2: Agentless monitoring planning and configuration 
   3. Lesson 3: Agentless monitoring troubleshooting
7. Agent Management Services Workspace
   1. Lesson 1: Monitoring the agents
   2. Lesson 2: Components and configuration
   3. Lesson 3: Take Action commands
   4. Lesson 4: Agent Management Services Workspace
8. Managing Event Integration
   1. Lesson 1: Integration points to other event repositories
   2. Lesson 2: Configuration of situation event integration implementation
   3. Lesson 3: EIF slot customization editor
9. Command Line Interfaces
   1. Lesson 1: Getting started 
   2. Lesson 2: Deployment 
   3. Lesson 3: Working with situations and actions 
   4. Lesson 4: Navigators and workspaces 
   5. Lesson 5: Historical data commands 
   6. Lesson 6: Administering users with commands
   7. Lesson 7: Group commands
   8. Lesson 8: Event management
   9. Lesson 9: Miscellaneous and itmcmd commands
   10. Lesson 10: Simple Object Access Protocol

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Who Will Benefit From This Course

The primary audience is the system administrator tasked with setting up work spaces, situations, monitoring agents, automation, and integration of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Deployment specialists will also benefit from this course.

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Required Skills/Knowledge

The following skills and areas of knowledge are required:

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

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Recommended Courses

• IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal Fundamentals 6.2.2
  

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