Duration: 5 Days
This course covers the installation, configuration, use, customization, and integration of Tivoli Network Manager with Netcool/OMNIbus and network monitoring using the Network Manager Pollers. The workshop includes approximately 40% lecture and 60% hands-on exercises.
The workshop begins with a basic overview of product components and their associated functions. You configure Tivoli Network Manager and perform a full discovery of simulated networks. To further understand the intricacies of the discovery cycle, you customize discovery by changing the behavior of finders and agents. You also learn to create real-time MIB graphs, control polling behavior, connect isolated networks through manual map editing, and use the reporting functions of IBM Tivoli Network Manager.
What You Will Learn
- Install IBM Tivoli Network Manager 3.9 as a non-root user
- Navigate the Network Manager interface
- Describe discovery in the context of Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition
- Configure and run a network discovery
- Schedule automatic full discoveries
- Use the data collector
- Build and use discovery filters
- Troubleshoot discovery issues
- Build network partition views
- View device link status and capacity information
- Manually instantiate undiscovered devices and connections.
- Use the Topoviz Hop View and Network Partition view
- Configure and customize Network Manager polling behavior
- Schedule event-based reports
- View asset and discovery reports
- Perform stitcher customizations to add custom data to a discovery
- Configure adaptive polling
- Configure database access
- Configure a custom report
- Schedule a report snapshot
Audience
This intermediate-level course is for administrators or integrators who are responsible for configuring and using Tivoli Network Manager.
Prerequistes
- Understand Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), routing, and switching
- Know how to edit files on a Linux or UNIX operating system
Course Outline
Day 1: Overview and operations
- Installation
- Discovery operations
- Topology visualization basics
- Event views and tools customization
- Tivoli Common Reporting 2.1
Day 2: Administration
- The NCIM database
- Discovery customization
- Discovery deep dive
- Stitcher language constructs
- Sample customizations
Day 3: Administration
- Sample customizations (continued)
- Resolving the missing link
- Using the Data Collector
Day 4: Administration
- Topology visualization customizations
- Monitoring and polling
Day 5: Administration
- Network fault isolation
- Core component communications
- Integration examples
Course Labs
