IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 for Administrators

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Description:

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) 6.1 lets you manage your systems graphically, dynamically, and flexibly, with a browser-enabled interface that helps transform systems management data into information you need to keep systems up and running.

Learn how to administer ITM 6.1.

IACET Continuing Education Units: 2.4

Audience:

This is an intermediate level course for system administrators who administer ITM 6.1.

Objectives:

• Manage the infrastructure for ITM 6.1
• Monitor the enterprise through situation events and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) events
• Implement event management using take action and expert advice facilities
• Automate problem resolution through policies
• Collect historical data, prune and summarize data, manage data retention, and create historical enterprise reports
• Visualize enterprise monitoring data and personalize workspaces
• Manage ITM 6.1 users and control access to features and workspaces
• Describe ITM 5.x interoperability

Prerequisites:

The following skills and areas of knowledge are required:

• Familiarity of ITM architecture
• Ability to use and navigate the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Working knowledge of how to access situation events, situation event details, and status changes.
• Ability to manage situation events effectively using ITM
• Experience with the IBM Tivoli desktop
• Working knowledge of TEC 3.9
• Working knowledge of system administration of Linux and Windows 2000

Topics:

Overview and administrative tasks

• solution demonstration
• administrator tasks
• starting and stopping ITM services
• managed systems and managed system lists

Monitoring your enterprise

• generating events
• events and situations
• the situation editor (new)
• building situations (in general)
• situation settings
• managing situations
• multinode and embedded situations
• building situations against different agents
• TEC integration
• event integration
• event synchronization
• TEC and NetView user interface integration
• TEC rules check utility

Implementing event management

• expert advice (new examples)
• take action

Self-healing/automation

• overview
• reflex automation
• generate universal messages
• build policies

Historical data collection

• configuring historical data collection
• warehousing data
• summarizing and pruning data
• displaying historical data in workspaces

Visualizing monitoring data

• structuring the enterprise in business views
• overview
• enterprise
• navigator views
• navigator editor
• creating navigator views
• organizing the presentation
• workspaces and views
• customizing workspaces
• view types
• add new gauges
• cover Universal Message Console with usage scenario
• include telnet in terminal emulator unit
• describe the use of launch
• graphic view and icon customization
• defining data collection rules
• overview
• product provided queries
• customizing queries
• editing queries
• creating new custom queries
• product provided queries
• providing user navigation
• linking workspaces
• defining simple links
• defining advanced links
• advanced link usage examples
• link specifics

Managing users and publishing workspaces

• overview of managing users
• user manager
• managing users
• describe modify user management
• overview of publishing workspaces  
• workspace administration mode (new)
• best practice
• resuming default