TN04AGB Impact™ 4.0 Admin & Implementation
   


Format
Classroom

Duration
5.0 Day(s)

Description
The IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact 4.0 is a five-day course designed for the system administrator responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the Netcool/Impact product.
The course takes students through practical exercises, teaching both common policies in use and covering key development concepts. After covering some introductory material, the class focuses on learning a new concept and applying that concept in a policy building lab. Each lab progressively builds upon previous labs, offering the students the opportunity to input policies and to debug and explore how each policy works. A Netcool/OMNIbus and sample relational database installation is available in class to use with the Netcool/Impact product.

Audience
Network and systems management developers/engineers who are required to install, configure, maintain or support a Netcool/Impact system for the purposes of integration or advanced correlation.

Prerequisites
An understanding of programming concepts � Conditional Statements, Variables, Loops, Objects and Arrays � is required. Solid fundamentals in UNIX environment administration is highly recommended. Understanding the fundamental concepts of database construction-SQL is recommended. Students who wish to actively participate in the Web Services Integration module should have a good understanding of web services systems (XML, WSDL, SOAP).
Attendance of the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Administration and Configuration Course and IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.0 User courses are mandatory.

Objectives
Upon completion of this course, each student gains an understanding of the basic features and tools of Netcool/Impact, as well as gaining hands on experience in configuring data access, building policies, and views. Students learn how to:

  • Recognize the Impact interface and understand the product
  • Install Netcool/Impact on Unix servers
  • Understand and use the wizards available
  • Configure data access
  • Create and edit policies
  • Build typical policies including event enrichment and synthetic events injection
  • Develop configuration management projects
  • Build operator views and escalation policies
  • Build advanced correlation policies and suppression policies for events
  • Build time-based policies using hibernation
  • Understand Impact clustering

Contents

Agenda - Day 1

  • Introduction to Netcool/Impact
  • Installation
  • Installing and Licensing Netcool/Impact Components
  • Configuring Netcool/Impact
  • Using the Wizards
  • Configuring Data Access
  • Administering Users, Groups and Roles via the Security Manager

Agenda - Day 2

  • Policy Building
  • Building Event Enrichment Policies
  • Using Configuration Management and Projects
  • Building Synthetic Event Policies

Agenda - Day 3

  • Building Operator Views
  • Building Escalation Policies
  • Building Advanced Event Correlation Policies

Agenda - Day 4

  • Building Advanced Event Correlation Policies
  • Building Time-based Policies - Using Hibernation
  • Building Event Suppression Policies
  • Impact Error Handling

Agenda - Day 5

  • Web Services Integration with Netcool/Impact
  • Impact Clustering

Further information is available on request by emailing training@mibtree.com
     
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