IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact 4.0 Administration and Implementation (IBM TN04AGB)

This 5 day course is designed to address all aspects of IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact. You will undertake practical exercises throughout the course, built to teach both common policies in use and to cover key development concepts. You should plan on attending the entire course as concepts will be built upon
throughout the length of the course. In the lab exercises a Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and sample relational database will be available in class to use with the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product. After some introductory material, the class will focus on learning a new concept then applying that concept in a policy building lab. Each lab will progressively build on previous labs, offering you the opportunity not just the opportunity to input policies, but to debug and explore how each works.

Course Objectives

• Install the components of the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product
• Access and use the policy building wizards
• Understand how Impact processes events from the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer
• Administer users, groups and roles as they affect how Tivoli Netcool/Impact functions
• Use the policy building tools
• Build Impact policies using proper syntax and utilising supplied Action Functions
• Understand and implement Impact error handling and high-availability solutions
• Understand how Tivoli Netcool/Impact integrates with such 3rd party applications and technologies like Instant Messaging, e-mail and web services

Prerequisites
Required Skills/Knowledge
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Administration and configuration Web Services Architecture knowledge UNIX administrative skills Background in software or systems development techniques.
Recommended Courses
IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus 7.x Administration and Configuration


Who should attend
This is an advanced course intended for implementers and developers of the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product. The majority of this course focuses on developing advanced event correlations and integrations with the Tivoli Netcool suite of products. You should have some background in software/systems development.
Course outlineDay 1

• Introduction Working with Data Creating a Policy Using the Event Enrichment Wizard Creating a New Policy Extending the Policy

Day 2

• Synthetic Events Organising and Debugging Policies Advanced Correlation Policies

Day 3

• More Advanced Correlation Policies Notification Policies Generic Event Readers Controlling Policy Execution Sequence and Threading Behaviour

Day 4

• The Operator View Working with Web Services Impact Installation and Configuration Impact Administration

Day 5

• Impact Administration Continued Clustering and Failover

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