IBM Monitoring 8.1.3 Implementation and Administration

Introduction to IBM Monitoring

• Overview and architecture
• Monitoring agents and categories
• Application based monitoring
• Monitoring agent examples
• Integrating with IBM Performance Management
• The IBM Monitoring lab environment

Installation

• Overview of installation
• Prerequisites and the prerequisite checker
• Installing the Performance Management Server
• Installing IBM Monitoring agents

Administer and use IBM Performance Management

• Starting and stopping the Performance Management Server  
• Starting and stopping agents   
• Starting the Performance Management Console
• Managing applications
• Using attribute details to access data from an agent
• Configure and use the Log File Agent
• Managing users of the Performance Management Console

Managing events and thresholds

• Events
• Threshold Manager
• Resource Group Manager

Integrating IBM Monitoring with other products

• Integrating IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• Bluemix integration
• Netcool/OMNIbus integration
• Event notification
• Integrating with IBM Alert Notification
• IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis integration
• Integrating with IBM Operations Analytics – Predictive Insights
• Dashboard Application Services Hub with IBM Performance Management agent data
• Integrate with IBM Control Desk

Reporting and 7-day comparison

• Historical 7-day comparison
• Reporting

This course is designed for users, administrators, and implementers.

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

• The ability to navigate Linux and Windows applications
• A working knowledge of an Internet browser

In this course, you learn to perform the following tasks:

• Explore the IBM Monitoring architecture.

• Install and configure IBM Monitoring.

• Administer, use, and navigate the Performance Management Console to monitor and manage a monitoring solution that is built with IBM Monitoring.

• Manage events effectively by using facilities that are provided with IBM Monitoring.

• Integrate IBM Monitoring with other products.

• Run reports and a 7-day comparison.