Duration: 3 Days
With IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3, users can manage their systems graphically, dynamically, and flexibly. A browser-enabled interface helps transform systems management data into information that you need to keep systems available. In this course you learn how to implement Tivoli Monitoring. This training is provided in a classroom environment with multiple opportunities for hands-on lab practice. The scenarios used in this class are based on using IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3.
What You Will Learn
- Plan an IBM Tivoli Monitoring implementation
- Install IBM Tivoli Monitoring server components and their prerequisites
- Install Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents
- Configure Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents
- Manage and maintain IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Install and configure event synchronization with IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console and Netcool/OMNIbus
- Configure and verify availability for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Describe how to implement Tivoli Monitoring user security, infrastructure component communication security and communications through firewalls
Audience
This intermediate course is for anyone responsible for implementing IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3.
Prerequistes
- Basic Tivoli Monitoring skills, as taught in course IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals (TM021) or (8M021)
Course Outline
Unit 1: Planning an IBM Tivoli Monitoring implementation
- Lesson 1: Overview and references
- Lesson 2: Architecture and components
- Lesson 3: Design process
- Lesson 4: Deployment and availability
- Lesson 5: Preparing for the installation
- Lesson 6: Component interoperability and upgrades
Unit 2: Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure
- Lesson 1: Preparing for installation
- Lesson 2: The Startup Center
- Lesson 3: Installing monitoring servers
- Lesson 4: Installing portal server components
- Lesson 5: Installing the portal client
- Lesson 6: Postinstallation tasks
Unit 3: Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents
- Lesson 1: Introduction to installing and configuring agents
- Lesson 2: Prerequisite checker for operating system agents
- Lesson 3: Remote installation
- Lesson 4: Installing Tivoli Monitoring agents remotely from the command line
- Lesson 5: Self-describing agents
- Lesson 6: Silent installation
- Lesson 7: Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases DB2 Agent
Unit 4: Configuring and managing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents
- Lesson 1: Agent configuration
- Lesson 2: Using the portal client to manage agents
- Lesson 3: Troubleshooting agent deployment
Unit 5: Maintaining IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Lesson 1: Working with monitoring components
- Lesson 2: Data backup and restore
- Lesson 3: Maintenance
- Lesson 4: Monitoring server and self-monitoring
Unit 6: Integrated event management
- Lesson 1: Overview of integrated event management
- Lesson 2: Netcool/OMNIbus integration
- Lesson 3: Tivoli Enterprise Console integration
- Lesson 4: Event forwarding on z/OS
Unit 7: Configuring availability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Lesson 1: Goals of resiliency and high availability
- Lesson 2: Heartbeats
- Lesson 3: Clustering
- Lesson 4: Hot standby overview
- Lesson 5: Monitoring agent and remote monitoring server failover
- Lesson 6: Portal server in the failover scenario
- Lesson 7: Troubleshooting options
Unit 8: Security for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Lesson 1: User authentication
- Lesson 2: Infrastructure component communication security
- Lesson 3: Secure Socket Layer
- Lesson 4: Firewall considerations with Tivoli Monitoring
- Lesson 5: Single sign-on
- Lesson 6: Additional security topics
Course Labs