TV960 - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Administrators

Table of Contents:

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

Course description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring manages the IT infrastructure including operating systems, databases and servers across distributed and host environments through a single customizable workspace portal.

Through a balance of lectures and hands-on lab exercises, you learn how to administer your IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) 6.2 environment. You map the architecture of key components and the flow of event data through the architecture. You set user access parameters to manage who sees various workspaces. You personalize workspaces to provide the key information required by various operators. You learn how to program automated responses to events, thus saving time.

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Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Manage the infrastructure for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.
• Monitor the enterprise through situation events and TEC events.
• Automate problem resolution through actions and policies.
• Visualize enterprise monitoring data.
• Personalize workspaces through creating links.
• Collect historical data, prune and summarize data, manage data retention, and create historical enterprise reports.
• Manage ITM 6.2 users and control access to features and workspaces

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Course Outline

1. Overview and Administrative Tasks
   1. Solution Demonstration
   2. Tivoli Monitoring Services
   3. Starting and stopping ITM Components
   4. Managed Systems
   5. Data Storage - Data Collection
   6. Creating Agents
2. Monitoring your Enterprise
   
   1. Situation Events and Situation Attributes
   2. The Situation Editor
   3. Building Situations
   4. Situation Settings
   5. Expert Advice
   6. Managing Situations
   7. Embedded and Correlated Situations
   8. Building Situations against different agents
   9. TEC Integration
   10. Omnibus Integration
3. Actions and Automation
   
   1. Overview
   2. Take Action
   3. Situation Actions
   4. Policies
4. Visualizing Monitoring Data
   
   1. Structuring the Enterprise in Logical Views
   2. Organizing the Presentation
   3. Defining Data Collection Rules
5. Navigating Monitoring Solution
   
   1. Providing User Navigation
   2. Defining a Simple Link
   3. Creating Advanced Links
   4. Advanced Link Usage Examples
   5. Link Specifics
6. Historical Data Collection
   
   1. Configuring Historical Data Collection in TEP
   2. Configuring the Summarization and Pruning Agent
   3. Embedding History Data in TEP
7. Managing Users and Publishing Workspaces
   
   1. Create, Delete, and Customize User and Group Accounts in TEP
   2. Change Permissions for Applications and Navigator Views
   3. Publishing Workspaces

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Who Will Benefit From This Course

Primary audience is the system administrator tasked with setting up access, managing the workspaces, and analyzing historical data. Deployment specialists would also benefit from this course.

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Required Skills/Knowledge

The following skills and areas of knowledge are required:

• Ability to navigate through Windows applications.
• Working knowledge of an Internet browser.
• Experience with event management.
• Working knowledge of TEC 3.9 suggested, but not required.
• Working knowledge of system administration of Linux and Windows 2000.

For those new to ITM, IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Introduction Web-based course is recommended;

For those experienced with ITM, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 Differences Web-based course is recommended and IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Operators classroom course.

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Recommended Courses

None

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