IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals (ILO)

NOTE: This is a live, instructor-led online course. Do not make arrangements to travel. See the Student Machine Requirements section for the equipment required to participate in the lectures and hands-on labs. After you are confirmed in the class you will receive further instructions to access audio, video and remote labs. Instructor-led Online US courses start at 9:00 am Central time unless specified otherwise. Please enroll at least five business days prior to class start date to ensure course materials can be shipped in time. You must provide the mailing address where you wish to receive your course materials if it is different from the company address indicated in your enrollment request.
Learn how to use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal in IBM Tivoli Monitoring to manage your enterprise environment. You learn about the Tivoli Monitoring architecture and how to navigate the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. You also learn how to manage situation events, visualize real-time and historical data, manage user authorities, and publish monitoring workspaces. This course is appropriate for administrators and users of all Tivoli Monitoring products that use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal as the user interface.
Určeno pro
This basic course is for operators and administrators responsible for their enterprise monitoring infrastructure. It is also intended to help new users of Tivoli Monitoring to use the tools to effectively manage their enterprise monitoring.
Předpokládané znalosti
You should have:
• Ability to navigate Linux applications
• Have a working knowledge of an Internet browser.
Cíl kurzu
• Describe the Tivoli Monitoring architecture.
• Use and navigate the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to monitor and manage an enterprise monitoring solution built with Tivoli Monitoring.
• Manage the Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure by starting and stopping components, using the self-monitoring workspaces and topology, and building managed system groups.
• Build situations to monitor the enterprise.
• Access situation events, situation event details, and status changes.
• Manage events effectively using facilities provided with Tivoli Monitoring.
• Visualize enterprise monitoring data, personalize workspace data, and build workspace views.
• Manage historical data collection and use historical data within Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
• Manage user authorizations and user groups.
Klíčová témata
Unit 1: Introduction and Overview
• Purpose and positioning
• Architecture and components
• Tivoli Monitoring Services
• Monitoring solutions using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Overview of the student exercise environment
Unit 2: Using and navigating Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Starting the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Describing components of the Application Window
• Understanding Navigator views
• Navigating workspaces
• Managing views
• Introduction to situation events
Unit 3: Managing Tivoli Monitoring components
• Starting and stopping Tivoli Monitoring components
• Managed systems and groups
• Self-monitoring workspaces
• The student exercise monitoring scenario
Unit 4: Monitoring your enterprise
• Situation events and situation attributes
• The Situation editor
• Product-provided situations
• Building situations
• Model situations and monitored baselines
• Situation settings
• Managing situations
• Dynamic thresholds
Unit 5: Managing situation events
• Situation event management facilities
• Managing situation events effectively
• Taking actions to solve problems
• Closing situation events
Unit 6: Visualizing monitoring data
• Structuring the enterprise using customized Navigator views
• Organizing the presentation using customized workspaces
• View types
• Using graphic views
• Data collection rules
• Understanding links
Unit 7: Historical data collection
• Historical data collection overview
• Configure historical data collection
• Accessing historical data in workspaces
• Historical self-monitoring workspaces
Unit 8: Managing users and publishing workspaces
• Managing Tivoli Enterprise Portal users and user groups
• Managing access to applications and Navigator views
• Publishing workspaces
Požadavky na technické vybavení
To participate in both the lectures and labs for this course, the student workstation must meet the following hardware requirements:
• Minimum of 256 MB of memory
• Windows 98 or higher
• Headset with microphone, or separate microphone and speakers
• Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
• 128-bit encryption (Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 6.0 and Windows 98, NT 4.0, and 2000 must have the High Encryption Packs installed)
• Citrix ICA Client (Installed when you access e-lab during class)
• High speed internet (56K bps or higher)
NOTE: The Citrix application (web client or full package) requires access to port 443 (https). Please ensure personal and corporate firewalls have this port open.