BMC CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems Certification Boot Camp v. 6.2

Description:

Target Audience:
 New Users - This course is an introductory course designed to teach basic concepts and familiarize the student with the functionality of the product.
 
Course Abstract:
 This is a high-intensity immersion course designed to prepare the student to take the BMC CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems Certified Engineer Test. This test will be administered at the end of the class. The class days will be long (between 9 and 11 hours a day) and will include additional reading assignments each evening. Time will be allotted on Friday to take the 2-hour certification examination.
This class covers topics from BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager Scheduling II and BMC CONTROL-M Configuration and Administration classes to prepare you for the certification test. We will work through a case study that includes many of the challenges you can encounter during an implementation. The participants are then given the opportunity to work through these challenges with hands-on labs. Additionally, the participant will be presented with the best practices for using the monitoring, scheduling, and administration tools and will practice using these tools throughout the case study.

In particular students will learn:

How to create and manage job definitions
How to monitor and resolve production job problems
How to plan, install and configure each of the components of BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager, BMC CONTROL-M Server and BMC CONTROL-M agents.
How to implement and use Control Modules for application scheduling
How to maintain and troubleshoot the production environment.
How to migrate from older versions of BMC CONTROL-M to version 6.2.x.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:
Use multiplatform BMC CONTROL-M through application of BMC CONTROL-M/EM and BMC CONTROL-M/Desktop.
Use the powerful facilities provided by the BMC CONTROL-M/EM Graphical User Interface to locate, track, and resolve any problems that may occur with a job.
Use BMC CONTROL-M/EM and BMC CONTROL-M/Desktop to control job execution based on prerequisite job completion, availability of resources, or time.
Create scheduling groups, a new feature that allows you to define prerequisite conditions for groups of jobs.
Use the post-processing facilities to perform actions based on the completion status of a task.
Create Shouts (Alerts) that provide information to users about the status of jobs.
Establish new data centers on a BMC CONTROL-M/EM Server
Establish production standards and procedures
Create and manage User Daily jobs
Gain advanced knowledge of such features as job skeletons, variables, group scheduling, collections, job post-processing, etc.
Create and manage Node Groups and Shout Destination Tables
Create and manage calendar definitions for an enterprise, and use advanced calendar features
Manage resource definitions for job flow optimization
Implement application-related functionality and the associated Control Modules
Create maintenance jobs and multi-Agent jobs
Implement and manage data center and BMC CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager security and authorizations
Create reports using the BMC CONTROL-M/EM Reporting Facility.
Create and use global conditions.
Perform the necessary command line actions, including using various BMC CONTROL-M utilities, to support all of the above
Describe/explain BMC CONTROL-M architecture and processes including the functioning of components, and the capabilities of various add-on products.
Set up and administration of agent platforms, including load balancing.
Use BMC CONTROL-M/EM and BMC CONTROL-M and utilities.
Implement customization options and enterprise production standards.
Perform BMC CONTROL-M/EM and BMC CONTROL-M database maintenance.
Perform BMC CONTROL-M/EM and BMC CONTROL-M troubleshooting.
Implement BMC CONTROL-M Failover
Plan and implement a migration from older versions of BMC CONTROL-M Server to the current release.
 
 
Required Knowledge:  
 Experience with scheduling, installing and maintaining applications on UNIX and Windows
 
 
Prerequisite Courses:  
 BMC CONTROL-M/Enterprise Manager 6.2: Scheduling I