Configuring Enterprise Manager v3

Training Course Content Module 1: Introduction and Setup

o Introduction to Enterprise Manager
o Overview of Enterprise Manager
o Additional resources and documentation
o Setting Up Enterprise Manager
o Overview: Initial setup tasks
o Activating the license
o Specifying initial configuration settings
o Configuring a standard network
o About incorporating Enterprise Manager into your network
o Ports required for two-way communication
o About best practices for management network topology
o Specifying the IP address of your DNS server
o Verifying DNS resolution
o Lab – Setup

Module 2: Managing Devices

o Managing Devices
o About device discovery and communication
o Using the Devices screen
o Viewing certificates for a managed device
o Custom Lists
o Lab – Check the configuration of your managed device
o Lab – Discover devices to manage
o Lab – Create custom lists
o Lab – Disable then re-enable a pool member from a custom list

Module 3: Managing User Accounts

o About user roles and authentication for Enterprise Manager
o About user accounts for managed devices
o Changing user passwords for managed devices
o Lab – View System Users
o Lab – View a list of users of a managed device
o Lab - Change a user’s account password

Module 4: Configuration Management

o Licensing
o Certificates
o Lab - View Certificates and create a certificate alert
o Finding and Viewing Configuration Objects
o Changesets
o Templates
o Lab – Configuration and Changesets
o Collecting, Viewing, and Storing Statistics
o Lab – Statistics

Module 5: Using iHealth with Enterprise Manager

o Specifying credentials to access the iHealth diagnostics service
o Gathering configuration data for diagnostics with iHealth
o Creating an iHealth data collection schedule
o Lab – Gather iHealth Diagnostics
o Lab – Create and iHealth data collection schedule

Module 6: Reporting

o Reports
o Standard reports
o Creating Reports
o Scheduling Reports
o Viewing and Downloading Reports
o Viewing the interactive HTML version of the Capacity Planning Report
o Modifying report settings
o Centralized Analytics
o Analytics profiles on managed devices
o Viewing application statistics for multiple devices
o Lab – Create a report
o Lab – Centralized Analytics

Module 7: Managing Software and Archives

o Managing Device Software
o Overview: Downloading, importing, and installing software images
o Downloading software images and files
o Importing software images to the software repository
o About software installation
o Using the Software Image Copy and Installation wizard
o Using the Legacy Software Image Installation wizard
o Managing UCS Archives
o Creating a rotating UCS archive schedule
o Changing private key archive settings
o Lab – Managing Archives

Module 8: Administration

o Alerts
o About configuring an SMTP server to send an e-mail alert
o About SNMP traps for alerts
o Lab – Create a device alert
o Lab – Examine EM alert triggers
o Logging
o Enabling audit logging for device management events
o Viewing and searching audit logs for device configuration changes
o Viewing and searching Enterprise Manager system event logs
o Lab – View and search the audit logs
o Lab – View and search the system logs
o High Availability
o About using Enterprise Manager in a high availability configuration
o Troubleshooting and Working with F5 Support
o Verifying and testing device communication
o Rebooting managed devices
o Collecting information for F5 support
o Maintaining and replacing devices
o Putting devices into maintenance mode
o Replacing a device
o Using the device replacement checklist
o Lab – Working with F5 Support
o Application Security Manager
o Working with ASM Policies and Attack Signatures