Overview

IBM Tivoli Monitoring products monitor the performance and availability of operating systems and applications. Learn about the Tivoli Monitoring architecture and how to navigate the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. This course also explains how to manage situation events, visualize real-time and historical data, manage user authorities, and publish monitoring workspaces. It also teaches you to use Tivoli Monitoring tools to effectively manage their enterprise monitoring. This course is designed for users and administrators of all Tivoli Monitoring products that use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal as the user interface.

If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course.

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Audience

This introductory basic course is for users and administrators of all Tivoli Monitoring products who use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal as the user interface.

Prerequisites

You should have:

• a working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems and experience with an Internet browser.

Objective

• Describe the Tivoli Monitoring architecture
• Use and navigate the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to monitor and manage an enterprise monitoring solution built with Tivoli Monitoring
• Manage the Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure by starting and stopping components, using the self-monitoring workspaces and topology, and building managed system groups
• Build situations to monitor the enterprise
• Access situation events, situation event details, and status changes
• Manage events effectively using facilities provided with Tivoli Monitoring
• Build visualizations of enterprise monitoring data and personalize workspace data, and build workspace views
• Manage historical data collection and use historical data within Tivoli Enterprise Portal and Tivoli Common Reporting
• Manage user authorizations and user groups

Course Outline

• Introduction and overview
• Using and navigating the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
• Managing Tivoli Monitoring components
• Monitoring your enterprise
• Situation event management
• Visualizing monitoring data
• Introduction to Dashboard Application Services Hub
• Historical data collection
• Managing user security and publishing workspaces