Course Description
The IBM Tivoli infrastructure is the nucleus of the Tivoli Management environment. Its exceptional architecture provides customers with unequaled systems management control and organisation capabilities. This course was designed to help you expand your IBM Tivoli infrastructure skills to a higher level of expertise.
The course provides a continuation of the important lessons presented in the IBM Tivoli infrastructure course and includes new topics that have been determined to be extremely relevant to getting maximum performance and benefit from the IBM Tivoli infrastructure. The course also presents important information regarding operational factors and considerations which can help you make decisions about design and implementation choices. This course includes multiple opportunities for you to practice your skills in a complex lab environment. A series of carefully constructed hands-on activities allow you to immediately reinforce the important lessons presented in this course.

Class Length
4 days

Objectives

• Describe the issues in the physical and logical design of an efficient Tivoli Management Environment
• Explain the internal workings, deployment considerations, and configuration of a Tivoli management agent.You will also be able to understand the techniques for troubleshooting Tivoli management agent problems
• Configure an interconnection between Tivoli management regions to allow them to exchange resources and explain the steps involved in this process and the limitations and concerns inherent to interconnections
• Explain the role of important MDist configuration parameters
• Design and deploy Tivoli with MDist II Identify techniques for troubleshooting MDist problems
• Describe the Tivoli RIM object and its configuration and internal operations
• Describe techniques for troubleshooting RIM problem
• Identify the tasks needed to maintain a Tivoli Object Database including its maintenance, scheduling, and backup/restore procedures
• Describe the internal design of Tivoli as an object system, including the background of the Tivoli Management Framework as a CORBA-compliant client-server architecture
• Describe techniques for troubleshooting common problems between Tivoli Management Framework and other Tivoli applications

Who will benefit from this course
This course is intended for senior system administrators, implementers, Tivoli engineers, and support personnel requiring advanced knowledge and troubleshooting expertise with Tivoli Management Framework and other Tivoli applications.

Required Skills Knowledge

• Must have Senior System Administrator knowledge level on the following operating systems:
• UNIX servers: (preferably on Solaris 2.x, or SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, etc)
• Windows Servers: NT, 2000 Server or XP
• Knowledgeable in windowing software operation on the following platforms:
• UNIX: X-windows including: Openlook, Motif, CDE, etc.
• MS Windows: Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• Knowledgeable in networking terms and concepts (LAN, WAN, router, hub, etc).
•  Knowledgeable in system hardware and software concepts (RAM, hard disk, file systems, directories, files, file locking, ACL, logins, etc).
• Basic operations and understanding of the Tivoli Management Environment, including:
• Using Tivoli: Security Roles, Desktop, Tasks, Jobs, Scheduler, etc.
• Function of Policy Regions and methods for using them.
• The functionality provided by Tivoli Profile Managers and how to effectively use them.
• Use of Profile and how they relate to the Tivoli applications (Differences of DM Profile vs. a User Admin profile from the standpoint of Framework distribution, subscription, etc).

Prerequisites
Tivoli Infrastructure

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Planning the Tivoli Management Environment
• Unit 2: Installation and Removal of Tivoli Enterprise Server Software
• Unit 3: Installation of Tivoli Clients and Applications Using SIS
• Unit 4: Tivoli Framework Policy
• Unit 5: Tivoli Management Agent: Deployment and Problem Resolution
• Unit 6: Interconnected Servers
• Unit 7: Multiplexed Distribution Repeaters
• Unit 8: RIM (RDBMS Interface Module) Issues and Troubleshooting
• Unit 9: Object Database Maintenance
• Unit 10: Tuning and Troubleshooting the Tivoli Object Repository
• Unit 11: CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture