IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition 4.2 Operations and Administration

This course covers the installation, configuration, use, customization, integration of Tivoli Network Manager 4.2 with Network Operations Insight, and network monitoring using the Network Manager pollers. The workshop includes approximately 40% lecture and 60% hands-on exercises. The workshop begins with a basic overview of product components and their associated functions. You configure Tivoli Network Manager and perform a full discovery of simulated networks. To further understand the intricacies of the discovery cycle, you customize discovery by changing the behavior of finders and agents. You also learn to create real-time MIB graphs, control polling behavior, connect isolated networks through manual map editing, and use the reporting functions of IBM Tivoli Network Manager. You also learn to use the Network Health Dashboard and create custom dashboards.

Nach Abschluss dieses Seminars haben die Teilnehmer Wissen zu folgenden Themen:

• Install IBM Tivoli Network Manager 4.2
• Navigate the Network Manager interface
• Describe discovery in the context of Tivoli Network Manager
• Configure and run a network discovery
• Schedule automatic full discoveries
• Use the discovery collector
• Build and use discovery filters
• Troubleshoot discovery issues
• Build network partition views
• Use the Network Health Dashboard
• Create custom dashboards
• View device link status and capacity information
• Manually instantiate undiscovered devices and connections.
• Use the Hop View and Network Partition view
• Create a network view with multiple domains
• Configure and customize Network Manager polling behavior
• Schedule event-based reports
• View asset and discovery reports
• Perform stitcher customizations to add custom data to a discovery
• Configure adaptive polling
• Configure database access
• Configure a custom report
• Schedule a report snapshot

1. Introduction and Architecture
1. Features overview
2. Architectural overview
3. Troubleshooting with log and trace files
2. Architectural considerations
3. Discovery Basics
1. How discovery works
2. The discovery wizard
3. Starting discovery
4. Checking discovery status
4. Discovery configuration tabs
1. Advanced Discovery Options
2. Configure discovery of multicast networks
3. Discovery filtering
4. Discovering with collectors
5. Troubleshooting discovery
5. Optimizing discovery
1. Visualization Basics
2. Visualization architecture
3. Event views
4. The Hop View
5. Network views
6. Link status and capacity
7. Tabular and Grid views
6. Tools
1. Advanced Visualization
2. Path Views
3. Topology Editor
4. Device Structure Browser
5. Bookmarks
6. Adding classes and icons
7. Cross-domain network views
8. Network Health Dashboard
7. Create custom dashboards
1. Polling
2. Polling architecture
3. Polling policies
4. Polling definitions
5. Manage and unmanage devices and interfaces
6. Configure adaptive polling
7. Realtime MIB graphing
8. Distributed polling
8. Troubleshooting information
1. Optical Transport and Radio Access Networks
10. Understanding DNCIM
12. DNCIM database basics
13. Populating DNCIM database
14. Mapping information into the MODEL service
16. Customizing Discovery
18. Discovery in-depth
19. Creating database tables
20. Prepare stitchers to enrich discovery
21. Run the custom scripts and stitchers
23. Gateway and Network Fault Isolation
25. Architecture and basis concepts
26. RCA overview
27. Gateway plug-ins
28. New rules for special events
29. Troubleshooting gateway event processing
31. Administrative Perl Scripts
34. Tivoli Network Manager Failover
36. Failover basics
37. What happens with failover
39. Tivoli Network Manager Reports
41. Overview
42. Viewing and scheduling reports
43. Cognos and BIRT reports
44. Included reports
45. Installing Tivoli Common Reporting
46. Troubleshooting Cognos
48. Installing Tivoli Network Manager 4.1.1
50. Installation preparation
51. Installing Tivoli Network Manager
52. The root user post installation tasks
53. Install Tivoli Common Reporting
54. Component communications
55. Optional configuration of OMNIbus processes running as a non-root user
56. Process control
57. Starting Tivoli Network Manager