Course Description
Tivoli Enterprise Console is a powerful event management tool. Programming Rules for the Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9 covers introductory Tivoli Enterprise Console rule writing using the Tivoli Enterprise Console rules language. In this course, you will program custom rules to respond to events, correlate multiple events, automate system administration tasks, and read rule trace and profiling output to verify and troubleshoot rules. This course introduces the important concepts behind Tivoli Enterprise Console rules programming, focusing on hands-on rule programming. The important concepts are re-enforced with a series of exercises that are based on a number of real-life "event management" scenarios.

Class Length
2 days

Objectives

• Create and manipulate rule bases
• Create and modify event classes using the BAROC language
• Write plain rules
• Write and interpret rules with event specifiers
• Write rules using the REDO concept
• Write change rules
• Write timer rules
• Write simple rules
• Write correlation rules
• Read and analyze trace output generated by various rules and actions
• Profile rules and interpret profiling reports
• Use Tivoli Enterprise Console templates
• Optimize rules by changing the default order of execution
• Understand the impact of the BAROC event class hierarchy on rule performance
• Write rules using the REDO concept
• Write change rules
• Write timer rules
• Read and analyse trace output generated by various rules and actions
• Use TEC templates
• Optimise rules by changing the default order of execution

Who will benefit from this course

This course is intended System Administrators who are responsible for programming Tivoli Enterprise Console rules.

Required Skills Knowledge

• Familiarity with an appropriate text editor is required.
• While not a requirement for this class, knowledge of programming concepts would be beneficial.
• It is also recommended that you have some experience using programming languages such as Prolog, Rexx, shell scripting, or similar languages.

Prerequisites

Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Overview
• Unit 2: Review of the TEC Architecture and CLI Commands
• Unit 3: BAROC Review
• Unit 4: Introduction to Rules
• Unit 5: Event Specifiers
• Unit 6: Change and Timer Rules
• Unit 7: Simple and Correlation Rules
• Unit 8: Optimizing Rule Execution