TV133 - IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2: Senior Administration

Table of Contents:

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

Course description

This is a 3-day instructor-led course that explores the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2 product in more detail. Using the 4.2.1 version of the product, students will learn best practices for deploying the product, as well as monitoring and troubleshooting methods. Students will use the new deployment services Activity Planner, Change Manager and Resource Manager (for users only). The new Pristine Manager deployment service will also be introduced in this course.

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Objectives

This course enables you to build the necessary knowledge and skills to:

• Plan for Software Distribution and Inventory profile distributions in a large environment, including scaling and bandwidth issues.
• Configure and troubleshoot MDist 2 and Scalable Collection Service (SCS).
• Apply best practices for distributing software, including monitoring distributions and recovering from failed distributions.
• Distribute profiles to mobile targets.
• Configure Inventory to collect and store custom information.
• Use and maintain the configuration repository.
• Deploy and troubleshoot Activity Planner plans and Change Manager Reference Models to aid in Configuration Manager deployment.
• Use Resource Manager with Enterprise Directory Query Facility to manage systems that are linked to LDAP users.
  • Describe the functionality of the Pristine Manager component.

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Course Outline

1. Planning for IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Deployment
   1. Scaling, bandwidth
   2. Installation issues
   3. Firewall issues
   4. Automating endpoint logins
2. Configuring IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager
   1. MDist 2 and SCS configuration
   2. RIM objects
3. Software Distribution Topics:
   1. Best practices
   2. Monitoring distributions and handling failures
   3. Distributing from file server or CD ROM
   4. Data moving service
   5. Mobile endpoints
4. Customizing Inventory Functions
   1. Expanding the configuration repository schema
   2. Collecting custom MIF information
   3. Custom software signatures and software package signatures
5. The Configuration Repository
   1. Record keys, custom keys
   2. Maintenance tasks
   3. Historical database
6. Activity Planner
   1. Functionality, architecture
   2. Installation, configuration, and tuning
   3. Troubleshooting
7. Change Manager
   1. Functionality, architecture
   2. Installation, configuration, troubleshooting
8. Resource Manager for Users
   1. Introduction to LDAP Concepts
   2. Using Resource Manager for users
   3. Installing and configuring Enterprise Directory Query Facility
9. Pristine Manager
   1. Introduction to functionality and architecture

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Who Will Benefit From This Course

System administrators who deploy, administer, and maintain IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2 environments.

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Required Skills/Knowledge

• Working knowledge of the Windows and Unix operating systems, Windows and Unix administration functions, and Windows program installation
• Basic familiarity with database queries
• Ability to use the following Tivoli infrastructure components:
  • Tivoli Desktop
  • Tivoli Administrators
  • Tivoli Profiles
• Students must have previous experience with Configuration Manager 4.2. It is assumed that the student will know how to create and distribute Software Distribution and Inventory profiles, as well as create basic software packages.
• Students must have a working knowledge of Tivoli infrastructure concepts and components.

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Recommended Courses

• TV104 - Tivoli Infrastructure 4.1
• TV107 - Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.2

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