IBM Tivoli
Netcool/Proviso 4.3 Operator
Course reference: TN10GB
Course Summary:
| Format: | Classroom |
| Duration: | 5.0 Day(s) |
| Price: | 2000.00 GBP plus VAT, 2350.00 GBP incl VAT |
This course covers all the tools and methods to configure and operate Netcool/Proviso. It also provides a detailed overview of Netcool/Proviso capabilities.
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Audience
People in charge of provisioning new resources, collecting data, setting up reports, and planning Netcool/Proviso deployment.
Prerequisites
Knowledge and understanding of the Internet, SNMP, MIB, and the Sun Solaris, Oracle, and Web environments
Objectives
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the principals of service level management
- Understand the different supported architectures
- Provision the database with network topology resources
- Define customer grouping information that needs to be provisioned
- Collect performance and service data on network resources
- Configure reporters
- Deploy reporters and have them successfully report on data in the database
- Manage web users
- Customize reporters with the Netcool/Proviso graphical user interface (GUI)
- Understand what to configure in Netcool/Proviso for an automated deployment
Contents:
- Netcool/Proviso Overview
This unit describes the architecture, terminology (GUI and CLI) for all modules, reporting capability (including real-time and scheduled reports), and the GUI
- Netcool/Proviso Configuration
This unit covers the Users and User Groups configuration and policy, and the environment variable configuration
- Network Inventory
This unit covers the different ways to populate the database (SNMP) and describes SNMP prerequisites configuration. It also includes discovery efficiency improvements
- Resource Management
This unit includes Grouping Strategy and Rules, Property management, and Automatic Grouping
- Calendar and Time Zone Management
This unit describes how to use Calendars and manage Time Zones
- Data Collection
This unit covers Collection Metrics (understanding), Generic Formulas (mechanism) and Data Collection (SNMP and Bulk Statistics)
- Reporter Deployment
This unit covers the configuration and access rights (anchor point) for web users, the reporter's description and deployment, including automated report deployment. It also explains aggregation, in order to understand which data is used according to each reporter, and the use of the sampling quality to build a confidence index for SLA reports
- Thresholds
This unit covers the static and dynamic thresholds configuration
- Reporter Creation and Customization
This unit covers how to customize a reporter customization and create new reporters, These tasks are performed chart style using the Netcool/Proviso graphical interface. This unit includes information about changing granularity and creating reporters either manually and using a wizard