This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a study guide for the IBM Tivoli® Netcool®/Impact V4.0 Implementation Certification test. It is aimed at the IT professional who wants to be an IBM Certified Professional for this product. The IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact V4.0 Implementation Certification test is offered through the IBM Professional Certification program. It is designed to validate the skills required of technical professionals who work in the implementation and deployment of IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact V4.0. This book provides the necessary information for understanding the subject matter. It includes sample questions. The sample questions help evaluate your personal progress. It familiarizes you with the types of questions that may be encountered in the exam. This guide does not replace practical experience. It is not designed to be a stand-alone guide on the subject. Instead, this guide should be combined with educational activities and experiences and used as a very useful preparation guide for the exam. For your convenience, the chapters are based on the certification objectives of the IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact V4.0 Implementation Certification test. Those requirements are planning, prerequisites, installation, configuration, administration, and problem determination. Studying each chapter helps you prepare for the objectives of the exam.

The acquisition of Micromuse® Inc. brings new opportunities for all involved in IBM® Systems Management discipline, and the development of a new and exciting strategy. This IBM Redbooks® publication should be used when planning and implementing an integration and upgrade strategy from TEC to OMNIbus. In this book we provide recommended best practices and describe strategies for upgrading existing installations in a way that should best suit the needs of existing TEC-based environments. The audience for this book is anyone involved in the Systems Management discipline, but it applies primarily to both those with a Tivoli or Netcool background, and is aimed at customers with an existing Tivoli Enterprise Console® investment who are looking to evaluate the comparative characteristics of TEC and Netcool/OMNIbus™ , so that they can perform a system upgrade. Depending on the complexity of the existing environment and the depth of the requirements, this upgrade could be a significant project, but we aim with this book to make it as straightforward and as successful as possible. We have structured the book to first introduce a quick overview of the products, highlighting the key benefits of Netcool/OMNIbus so that both audiences can become familiar with the different concepts. Then the architectures of both products are discussed in more detail, concluding with some typical scenarios. Part 2, "Strategies" on page101, reviews planning and strategy. It begins with detailed guidelines on assessing the existing