Build on the foundation skills you learned in IBM Tivoli Netcool/Precision IP 3.5 Fundamentals (TN140). Focus on customizing discovery, building custom stitchers to enhance the topology database or instantiate devices and connections manually. Examine network fault isolation techniques. Learn techniques that allow for designating devices as managed or unmanaged during discovery time. Also, learn about customizing the Precision monitor/poller. During hands-on labs install Precision, understand the flow of discovery stitchers, and build custom discovery stitchers. Learn how to add tags to existing agents to gather additional device information, configure discovery to designate devices as managed or unmanaged, and further customize monitoring.
Course Contents
• Understanding stitcher language
• Understanding the discovery stitcher process
• Building a custom stitcher to add Location based on IP address.
• Creating Topoviz Partition View on new custom field.
• Building a custom stitcher to use customer-maintained lookup table.
• Building a custom stitcher to set fields based on pattern matching.
• Using the File Finder to enrich topology with customer-provided information.
• Adding Managed/Unmanaged tag to entities during discovery.
• Flagging Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) interfaces during discovery to allow inverse network fault isolation logic.
• Manually instantiating topology using the PresetLayer stitcher
• Advanced polling configuration, Creating custom polls
• Enhancing link state polling
• Adding Management Information Bases (MIB) to Precision
• Introduction to root cause analysis rules
• Precision-to-OMNIbus gateway review, Understanding event flow within Precision
• Scenarios for network fault isolation, Tweaking Precision performance
Target Group
This is an advanced course for presales engineers, system integrators, value added resellers and system administrators who install, configure, and maintain Netcool/Precision.
Knowledge Prerequisites
You should have the following skills or knowledge: UNIX system administrator experience, including UNIX Editor, Network management experience, including knowledge of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), TCP/IP routing, switching and network management systems, Ability to determine the cause of a software problem and execute a work-around or fix Basic scripting
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