IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON DE Administration and Use

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Description:

In this core training course, system administrators who use CandleNet Portal (CNP) to build dashboards develop the basis for IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON DE. Explore all aspects of developing an enterprise monitoring solution. Learn how to manage the monitoring infrastructure, customize the product for other users, and build an effective monitoring and self-healing environment.

This course covers IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON DE.

IACET Continuing Education Units: 4.0

Audience:

This is a basic course for system administrators, system managers, system programmers, architects, Information Technology (IT) managers, and other individuals who are tasked with monitoring the performance and availability of heterogeneous systems.

Objectives:

• Articulate the problem we are trying to solve
• Describe the scenario we cover during this class
• List different tasks of an OMEGAMON administrator
• List the different OMEGAMON platform components and describe their purpose
• List the required prerequisites for implementing a monitoring solution
• Describe how data is collected, where it is stored, and how it is displayed
• List the different OMEGAMON platform components and describe their purpose
• List the required prerequisites for implementing a monitoring solution
• Describe how data is collected, where it is stored, and how it is displayed
• Create navigator views to generate different hierarchical structures of the enterprise
• Use the navigator editor to create navigator views and navigator items
• Build workspaces and views that provide users with the information required to fulfill their role in monitoring the enterprise
• Use the provided view types to customize your workspace
• Modify views in the properties style tab
• Create and customize graphic views and graphic view icons
• Configure historical data collection using CNP
• Embed the collected data in CNP workspaces
• Describe the purpose of queries
• Manage queries and create new ones against Candle Management Server (CMS) data or any Open Database Connection (ODBC) data source
• Define simple links to navigate between workspaces
• Specify filter criteria for target workspaces
• Describe options for modifying link expressions to generate more elaborate links
• Use the CNP user manager to create, delete, and customize user accounts in CNP
• Change permissions for applications and navigator views
• Use the workspace administration mode to create workspaces that are available for other users  
• Use the situation editor to generate events in CNP
• Describe and utilize all situation settings
• Manage where and when situations run
• Describe and use expert advice
• Set up and use the take action feature in CNP that are either product-provided or custom built
• Use automation options to automatically manage events
• Describe when to use reflex automation and when to use workflow automation

Prerequisites:

You should have experience with Windows and software installation. Experience as a system administrator is strongly recommended.

Topics:

• Solution demo
• Phases
• Administrator tasks
• OMEGAMON XE versus OMEGAMON DE
• OMEGAMON platform
• Hardware and software prerequisites
• Data collection
• Data communication
• Data storage
• Display
• Using manage Candle services
• Configuring components
• Starting and stopping components
• Logging on to CNP
• Managed systems and managed system lists
• Data storage
• Installing CNP maintenance
• Backing up the solution
• Troubleshooting basics
• Enterprise
• Navigator views
• Navigator editor
• Creating navigator views
• Workspaces and views
• Customizing workspaces
• View types
• Graphic view and icon customization
• Configuring historical data collection
• Displaying historical data in CNP workspaces
• Customizing queries
• Editing queries
• Creating new queries
• Custom ODBC data sources
• Linking workspaces
• Defining simple links
• Defining advanced links
• Advanced link usage examples
• Link specifics
• User manager
• Managing users
• Navigator views
• Workspace administration mode
• Publishing workspaces
• Resuming default
• Events and situations
• The situation editor
• Building situations
• Situation settings
• Managing situations
• Building Universal Agent (UA) situations
• Expert advice
• Take action
• Reflex automation
• Policies