IBM Netcool OMNIbus 8.1 Administration and Maintenance
- Codice corso: TN035G
- Durata corso: 4gg
Overview
This course is designed for IBM Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 advanced users and administrators. It includes hands-on lab exercises that are based on a distributed deployment of Netcool/OMNIbus. You start with two images with Netcool/OMNIbus installed and deployed in a high-availability configuration. You use this environment to explore advanced administration topics and deploy advanced features. Note that product installation is not covered in this class. Product installation is covered in Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 Installation and Configuration (TN025G).
Audience
This intermediate course is for Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 administrators and advanced users.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Linux operating system skills
- Basic SQL knowledge
Knowledge of LDAP is beneficial
You can also take:
- IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 nstallation and Configuration (TN025G)
Objective
- Perform the major functions of the Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator utility
- Use both basic and advanced SQL
- Configure and run probe integrations
- Configure and use advanced probe functions
- Configure and implement Web GUI load balancing
- Customize Tivoli Common Reporting portal reports
- Configure core components and standard integration for SSL and FIPS 140-2 compliance
- Implement and examine the ESF-based, multi-tiered architecture
Course Outline
Introduction to Netcool/OMNIbus administration
- Overview
- Stopping and starting components
- Backing up and restoring
- Applying maintenance
- Modifying behavior
ObjectServer administration
- ObjectServer structure
- Modifying the ObjectServer structure
- Creating ObjectServers
Probes
- MIB Manager
- Probe high availability
- Remote probe administration
Automations
- Basic SQL
- ObjectServer automations
- SQL code blocks
- Database triggers
- Temporal triggers
- Signal triggers
- ObjectServer procedures
Web GUI administration
- Filters, view, and event grouping
- Tools, prompts, and menus
- Maps
- Gauges
- Basic dashboard creation
- Web GUI administrative API
User administration
- User administration overview
- ObjectServer user administration
- Web GUI user administration
- Creating Web GUI startup pages
Customizing Tivoli Common Reporting reports
- Overview
- Framework Manager
- Modifying the data model
Web GUI high availability
- Dashboard Application Services Hub
- Web GUI
- Setting up a load balanced cluster
- Cluster administration
Security
- Netcool/OMNIbus security elements
- Using SSL for client and server communications
- Encryption and FIPS compliance
Multitiered architectures
- Overview
- Deploying the architecture
Course Outline
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
Optical Transport and Radio Access Networks
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
Administrative Perl Scripts
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
