Tivoli Netcool/Precision IP 3.6 Advanced UK Classes & Lessons (Tivoli)

About this class

Build on the skills learned in the Precision IP Fundamentals course. This course focuses on customizing discovery, building custom stitchers to enhance the topology database or instantiate devices and connections manually. Network fault isolation techniques are explained. Learn techniques for designating devices as Managed or Unmanaged during discovery time, and how to customize the Precision monitor/poller. Hands-on labs provide an opportunity to install Precision, understand the flow of discovery stitchers, build custom discovery stitchers, and add tags to existing agents to gather additional device information.

Who will the lesson benefit?

This advanced course is for pre-sales engineers, System Integrators, Value Added Resellers and System Administrators who install, configure and maintain Netcool/Precision.

What delegates will learn

Understand the discovery cycle in detail
Build a custom stitcher to add information to discovery
Manually instantiate devices and connectivity
Customize Discovery Agents
Understand how to customize monitoring
Understand the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process and its theory.

What prerequisites are required

UNIX System Administrator experience, including UNIX Editor Network management expereience including knowledge of SNMP, TCP/IP routing, switching and network management systems

Ability to determine the cause of a software problem and execute a work-around or fix. Basic scripting experience