Virtual Instructor-Led Training
3 Days (24 Hours)Create, modify, and debug agents for IBM Performance Management and Tivoli Monitoring using IBM Agent Builder. Customize data monitoring.
Course Objectives
- Describe the IBM Agent Builder application and the kinds of agents you can create.
- Describe the basic process of creating a custom agent with Agent Builder.
- Troubleshoot an Agent Builder agent during the development process and after installation.
- Create agents for both the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IPM Performance Management environments.
- Create and test agents that monitor the availability of resources, such as processes, Windows services, command return codes, and network devices.
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Course Prerequisites
Required
- Administrator-level skills in Windows and Linux
- Experience installing, configuring, starting, and stopping agents and application support in either of the following monitoring environments: - IBM Monitoring 8.x on premises or IBM Monitoring 1.2.x software-as-a-service - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3
- Basic understanding of multiplatform data sources, such as SNMP, JMX, processes, scripts, commands, and log files
- Basic understanding of Windows data sources, including WMI, Perfmon, Windows logs, Windows services, and Windows processes
- Administrator-level skills in either of the following monitoring environments:IBM Monitoring 8.x on premises or IBM Monitoring 1.2.x SaaS - IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.x, including creating queries, situations, Navigators, and workspaces
Course Outline
Introduction to IBM Agent Builder
- Introduction to Agent Builder
- Installing Agent Builder
- Introduction to the Agent Builder application
Agent creation basics
Creating agents for IBM Performance Management
Creating agents for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Monitoring Windows resources
Monitoring processes and command return codes
Monitoring custom data sources
Monitoring remote and optional resources