Programming Rules for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9

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Description:

IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) is a powerful event management tool. Learn introductory TEC rule writing using the TEC rules language. Learn to program custom rules to respond to events, correlate multiple events, automate system administration tasks, and read rule trace and profiling output to verify and troubleshoot rules. Explore the important concepts behind TEC rules programming, focusing on hands-on rule programming. Reinforce important concepts with a series of exercises that are based on a number of real-life event management scenarios.

IACET Continuing Education Units: 1.6

Audience:

This is an intermediate course for system administrators and programmers, who program and maintain TEC rules.

Objectives:

• Create and manipulate rule bases
• Create and modify event classes using the Basic Recorder of Objects in C (BAROC) language
• Write plain rules
• Write and interpret rules with event specifiers
• Write rules using the Reverse and Undo Operation (REDO) concept
• Write change rules
• Write timer rules
• Write simple rules
• Write correlation rules
• Read and analyze trace output generated by various rules and actions
• Profile rules and interpret profiling reports
• Use TEC templates
• Optimize rules by changing the default order of execution
• Understand the impact of the BAROC event class hierarchy on rule performance

Prerequisites:

You should complete:

• IBM Tivoli Infrastructure 4.1 (TM160)
• or be familiar with IBM Tivoli Management Framework 4.1

You should also be familiar with a programming or scripting language.

Topics:

• Overview
• Review of the TEC architecture and Command Line Interface (CLI) commands
• BAROC review
• Introduction to rules
• Event specifiers
• Change and timer rules
• Simple and correlation rules
• Optimizing rule execution