IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition 4.2 Operations and Administration
This course covers the installation, configuration, use, customization, integration of Tivoli Network Manager 4.2 with Network Operations Insight, 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.
Duration: 40-45hrs
Course Content:
Introduction and Architecture
Features overview
Architectural overview
Troubleshooting with log and trace files
Architectural considerations
Discovery Basics
How discovery works
The discovery wizard
Starting discovery
Checking discovery status
Discovery configuration tabs
Advanced Discovery Options
Configure discovery of multicast networks
Discovery filtering
Discovering with collectors
Troubleshooting discovery
Optimizing discovery
Visualization Basics
Visualization architecture
Event views
The Hop View
Network views
Link status and capacity
Tabular and Grid views
Tools
Advanced Visualization
Path Views
Topology Editor
Device Structure Browser
Bookmarks
Adding classes and icons
Cross-domain network views
Network Health Dashboard
Create custom dashboards
Polling
Polling architecture
Polling policies
Polling definitions
Manage and unmanage devices and interfaces
Configure adaptive polling
Realtime MIB graphing
Distributed polling
Troubleshooting information
Understanding DNCIM
DNCIM database basics
Populating DNCIM database
Mapping information into the MODEL service
Customizing Discovery
Discovery in-depth
Creating database tables
Prepare stitchers to enrich discovery
Run the custom scripts and stitchers
Gateway and Network Fault Isolation
Architecture and basis concepts
RCA overview
Gateway plug-ins
New rules for special events
Troubleshooting gateway event processing
Tivoli Network Manager Failover
Failover basics
What happens with failover
Tivoli Network Manager Reports
Overview
Viewing and scheduling reports
Cognos and BIRT reports
Included reports
Installing Tivoli Common Reporting
Troubleshooting Cognos
Installing Tivoli Network Manager 4.1.1
Installation preparation
Installing Tivoli Network Manager
The root user post installation tasks
Install Tivoli Common Reporting
Component communications
Optional configuration of OMNIbus processes running as a non-root user
Process control
Starting Tivoli Network Manager