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IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1 Agent Builder

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Course description

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Course description

This course teaches you how to use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Builder software to create, modify, debug, and package agents for use with IBM Tivoli Monitoring products. You will create agents that monitor a vast array of data sources. You will also learn to add custom TEP extensions, such as queries, situations, and workspaces, to a solution install package that can be used to deploy your custom agent in a multi-platform environment.

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the ITM 6.2.1 Agent Builder application and the kinds of agents you can create.
  • Describe the basic process of creating a custom agent with Agent Builder. 
  • Create and test agents that monitor Windows data sources, such as Windows Services, Windows Log files, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and Windows Performance Monitor (Perfmon). 
  • Create and test agents that monitor multi-platform data sources, such as processes, commands, Common Information Model (CIM), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Java Management Extensions (JMX), scripts and log files.
  • Create and test agents that include remote monitoring, custom attributes, Navigator groups, user-entered configuration information, and TEP components, such as queries, situations, and workspaces.
  • Create and test agents that use subnodes to monitor multiple targets from a single agent.
  • Create a solution install package. 
  • Troubleshooting an Agent Builder agent during the development process and after installation.

Course outline

  1. Introduction to IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Builder
    • Lesson 1: Introduction to Agent Builder
    • Lesson 2: Installing Agent Builder
    • Lesson 3: Introduction to the Agent Builder Application
    • Lesson 4: Agent Builder and the Universal Agent
  2. Agent Creation Basics
    • Lesson 1: Creating an Agent in Agent Builder 
    • Lesson 2: Monitoring Windows Services 
    • Lesson 3: Installing An Agent Builder Agent
    • Lesson 4: Troubleshooting 
    • Lesson 5: Creating and Importing ITM Extensions 
    • Lesson 6: Creating an Installation Solution
  3. Monitoring Windows Data Sources
    • Lesson 1: Monitoring Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 
    • Lesson 2: Monitoring Windows Performance Monitor (Perfmon) 
    • Lesson 3: Adding Windows Log Events to an Agent 
    • Lesson 4: Common Agent Modifications
  4. Monitoring Multi-platform Processes and Command
    • Lesson 1: Monitoring Processes 
    • Lesson 2: Monitoring Command Return Codes
    • Lesson 3: Installing an Agent with Installation Scripts
  5. Monitoring Custom Data Sources
    • Lesson 1: Monitoring Script Output 
    • Lesson 2: Generating Agent Output from the Command Line 
    • Lesson 3: Monitoring Log Files 
    • Lesson 4: Runtime Configuration
  6. Monitoring Remote Systems and Setting Runtime
    • Lesson 1: Agent Builder Common Information Model (CIM) Monitor 
    • Lesson 2: Monitoring Java Management Extension (JMX) Data Sources 
    • Lesson 3: Monitoring Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 
    • Lesson 4: Monitoring Remote Systems

Who will benefit from this course

This course is intended for agent developers, system administrators, and application administrators who need to create agents to gather custom data and integrate that data into an ITM environment.

Required skills/knowledge

• Basic understanding of Windows data sources, including WMI, Perfmon, Windows logs, Windows services, and Windows processes

• Basic understanding of multiplatform data sources, such as SNMP, JMX, processes, scripts, commands, and log files

• Administrator-level skills in ITM 6.2, including creating queries, situations, Navigators, and workspaces

• Experience installing, configuring, starting, and stopping ITM 6.2 agents and application support in Windows and UNIX® or Linux®

• Administrator-level skills in Windows and Linux

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