IBM Tivoli Universal Agent 6.1

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Description:

Examine all aspects of creating monitoring solutions with the IBM Tivoli Universal Agent (UA) to integrate data from custom resources into IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) Version 6.1. Starting with general understanding and positioning of UA, learn the specifics of installing the UA on Windows and Linux before going into designing custom UA applications utilizing different data providers. Also, explore advanced topics, how to manage UA applications in IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP), and troubleshooting procedures.

Audience:

This is an intermediate course for system administrators and deployment specialists who monitor custom resources in a distributed environment.

Objectives:

• Describe the purpose, components, and architecture of the UA and identify all data providers
• Plan a UA implementation and list differences to implementing other ITM 6.1 agents
• Perform all steps to create and activate UA applications
• Use different data providers to create monitoring solutions for a variety of custom resources
• Manage UA within TEP and utilize visualization, monitoring, and automation capabilities
• Use the UA to monitor Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) resources, and send SNMP alerts
• Determine the cause of different UA problems

Prerequisites:

You should complete:

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 for Operators (TV280)
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 for Administrators (TV301)
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 for Implementers (TV350)

You should have the following:

• Familiarity with the ITM 6.1 architecture
• Ability to install ITM 6.1 agents and other infrastructure components on Windows and Linux
• Ability to use and navigate the TEP
• Working knowledge of managing situation events effectively using ITM
• Skills in configuring TEP to visualize data in workspaces and views
• Experience using administration functions within TEP used to create monitoring and automation solutions
• Working knowledge of system administration of Linux and Windows 2000

Topics:

Planning an ITM 6.1 implementation

• concepts
• architecture and components
• data providers
• data
• UA applications
• metafiles

Installing and configuring the product

• systems assurance
• implementing the UA on Windows
• implementing the UA on Linux
• remotely deploying UA
• starting components
• verifying the installation

Developing a UA application

• identifying collected data
• selecting data providers
• determining number of required UAs
• creating metafiles
• activating metafiles
• testing the Implementation

Using different data providers

• data providers in general
• POST data provider
• FILE data provider
• Application Programming Interface (API) data provider
• Socket data provider
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) data provider
• Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data provider
• script data provider
• advanced attribute features

Managing UA applications within TEP

• managing managed systems
• visualizing data
• monitoring custom resources

Using the UA SNMP support

• SNMP overview
• SNMP data provider
• SNMP emitter

Troubleshooting the UA

• common UA problem scenarios