TN043G: IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact 6.1 Administration and Implementation

IBM Tivoli Netcool 6.1 is a highly scalable analytics engine that adds event and service enrichment as well as business impact analysis for event data. This class teaches you how to deploy and administer Netcool/Impact through practice exercises. Key concepts are reinforced and applied in policy-building labs. This course is designed specifically for anyone who might be technically responsible for the design and implementation of Netcool/Impact. Such individuals might include operations staff, IT support staff, IT engineering staff, IT architects, or IT consultants. You should expect exposure to all fundamental elements of Netcool/Impact with a focus on developing policies within the Tivoli Netcool/Impact product.

What You Will Learn

• Install and configure Netcool/Impact
• Write policies using Netcool/Impact policy language (IPL)
• Create, update, and edit policies in the Tivoli Integrated Portal Console
• Define Netcool/Impact data sources, data items, and services
• Use logs to verify policy functionality
• Use and deploy policies using the wizards
• Implement failover and clustering

Audience

This intermediate-level course is for Implementers, Architects, Specialists, Administrators, and Support personnel.

Prerequistes

You should have basic Linux administration skills.

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Introduction to IBM Tivoli/Netcool Impact
• Unit 2: The Netcool/Impact user interface
• Unit 3: The Netcool/Impact data model
• Unit 4: Policies
• Unit 5: Services
• Unit 6: The Enrichment Policy
• Unit 7: Controlling Policy Execution Sequence
• Unit 8: Policy Wizards
• Unit 9: Notification Policies
• Unit 10: Reports
• Unit 11: Operator Views
• Unit 12: Working with Web Services
• Unit 13: Hibernation, X in Y, and Synthetic Events
• Unit 14: Event Suppression and Maintenance Window Management
• Unit 15: Command-line Tools and Self-Monitoring
• Unit 16: Clustering and Failover

Course Labs