IBM TN325G - IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition 4.2 Operations and Administration

Course Outline

Introduction and Architecture

• Features overview
• Architectural overview
• Troubleshooting with log and trace files
• Architectural considerations

Discovery Basics

• How discovery works
• The discovery wizard
• Starting discovery
• Checking discovery status
• Discovery configuration tabs

Advanced Discovery Options

• Configure discovery of multicast networks
• Discovery filtering
• Discovering with collectors
• Troubleshooting discovery
• Optimizing discovery

Visualization Basics

• Visualization architecture
• Event views
• The Hop View
• Network views
• Link status and capacity
• Tabular and Grid views
• Tools

Advanced Visualization

• Path Views
• Topology Editor
• Device Structure Browser
• Bookmarks
• Adding classes and icons
• Cross-domain network views
• Network Health Dashboard
• Create custom dashboards

Polling

• Polling architecture
• Polling policies
• Polling definitions
• Manage and unmanage devices and interfaces
• Configure adaptive polling
• Realtime MIB graphing
• Distributed polling
• Troubleshooting information

Optical Transport and Radio Access Networks

Understanding DNCIM

• DNCIM database basics
• Populating DNCIM database
• Mapping information into the MODEL service

Customizing Discovery

• Discovery in-depth
• Creating database tables
• Prepare stitchers to enrich discovery
• Run the custom scripts and stitchers

Gateway and Network Fault Isolation

• Architecture and basis concepts
• RCA overview
• Gateway plug-ins
• New rules for special events
• Troubleshooting gateway event processing

Administrative Perl Scripts

Tivoli Network Manager Failover

• Failover basics
• What happens with failover

Tivoli Network Manager Reports

• Overview
• Viewing and scheduling reports
• Cognos and BIRT reports
• Included reports
• Installing Tivoli Common Reporting
• Troubleshooting Cognos

Installing Tivoli Network Manager 4.1.1

• Installation preparation
• Installing Tivoli Network Manager
• The root user post installation tasks
• Install Tivoli Common Reporting
• Component communications
• Optional configuration of OMNIbus processes running as a non-root user
• Process control
• Starting Tivoli Network Manager

Objective

After you complete this course, you can perform the following tasks: 

•  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

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have the following skills: -

• Basic Linux shell script editing using vi or gedit
• Understanding of the function of routers and switches and layers 2 and 3 of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model
• Understanding of the types of devices that operate at Layer 1 of the OSI model

Audience

This course is for administrators, integrators, and users who are responsible for configuring and using Tivoli Network Manager or Network Operations Insight.