TV976 - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 Historical Reporting and Data Collection

Table of Contents:

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

Course description

IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides very powerful tools for collecting data, displaying short-term history reports, and uploading data to a relational database for long-term storage, summarization, and report generation.
Through a balance of lectures and hands-on exercises, you will learn how to install, configure, and use the historical data collection and reporting components, include the Tivoli Data Warehouse. Significant time is devoted to planning and sizing data storage requirements.

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Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a Tivoli Data Warehouse solution, addressing capacity issues.
• Install the historical data collection and reporting components.
• Configure historical data collection.
• Configure for summarization and pruning.
• Report historical data

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Course Outline

1. Planning a Tivoli Data Warehouse solution
   
   1. Capacity analysis
   2. Placement of components in the network
   3. Impact of decisions
2. Installing the historical data collection components
   1. Tivoli Data Warehouse
   2. Warehouse Proxy Agent
   3. Summarization and Pruning Agent
3. Configuring historical data collection
   
   1. Short term history data
   2. Long term history data
   3. Summarization and pruning configuration
4. Historical data reporting

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Who Will Benefit From This Course

Primary audience is the system administrator or implementer tasked with setting up and managing the collection of historical data. Deployment specialists would also benefit from this course.

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Required Skills/Knowledge

It is assumed student is familiar with monitoring in the IT environment and how to use ITM.
For those new to ITM, IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 Introduction Web-based course is recommended;
For those experienced with ITM, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 Differences Web-based course.
All participants should take the ITM for Operators classroom course and the ITM for Administrators course. The ITM for Implementers course would be very beneficial.

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Recommended Courses

• TV960 - Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Administrators
• TV977 - Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 for Implementers

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