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Course Name:   HP Operations Software for Windows I (Administration) v8.0 Training
     
Deployment Options:   Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
     
Course Duration:   5 days depending on audience background and options
 
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Introduction:
 
This 5-day course teaches students how to effectively utilize HP Operations Manager for Windows®, version 8.0, in their networked environment. It covers key integration, configuration and maintenance tasks. This lecture and lab course provides extensive hands-on experience with the user interface and configuration of HP Operations Manager for Windows.
 
Customize it:
 
This 5-day HP Operations Software for Windows I (Administration) course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of HP training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization's name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class.
 
Audience:
 
  • HP Operations Manager Customers: System or network administrators who are responsible for designing, configuring and maintaining HP Operations Manager for Windows
  • HP Software Channel Partners: Consultants, system architects, integrators and planners
  • HP Software Engineers involved in pre-sales and post-sales
 
Prerequisite
 

Before taking this course, you should have completed the following training:

  • Experience with UNIX system administration is essential, as is knowledge of TCP/IP networking
  • HP Operations Manager for UNIX I (Administration), (H4356S), or equivalent experience
 
Course Objectives:
 

After completing this course you will be able to:

  • Understand how HP Operations Manager for Windows is used to manage systems and the architecture of the Management Server
  • Locate, organize, configure and manage nodes Understand the role of WMI in policies and the product architecture
  • Understand the different policy types and how best to use each one
  • Create, deploy and maintain policies and instrumentation
  • Use message reduction techniques to identify duplicates or message storm conditions.
  • Describe how the Embedded Performance Component provides performance data
  • Integrate and use HP Performance Manager and HP Reporter with HPOMW
  • Create and use service hierarchies in HP Software Operations for Windows
  • Use and create tools to extend the operators' capabilities
  • Configure user roles
  • Understand security and troubleshooting issues
  • Back up and restore the HP Software Operations for Windows database

Benefits to you

This course is the quickest way to accelerate the productivity of system or network administrators, and others, who will evaluate, implement, or use HP Operations Manager for Windows to manage their distributed heterogeneous computing environment.
 
Course Outline
 

HP Operations Manager for Windows Introduction

  • Course agenda
  • HP Operations Manager for Windows product overview

Installation

  • Products on the media
  • Additional HP Software products
  • Management console and server requirements
  • Managed hardware and software
  • Management database
  • Network protocols
  • Required Windows services
  • InstallShield wizard
  • Uninstalling HP Operations Software for Windows
  • Test installation and troubleshoot

Architecture

  • Management server and console
  • Managed nodes
  • Embedded performance component
  • HP Performance Manager and HP Reporter options
  • Smart Plug-ins

Using Consoles (for Administrators)

  • Using the Web-based console
  • Navigating the native console
  • Working with messages
  • Configuring the workspace

Node Management

  • Node management architecture
  • Node configuration editor
  • Discovery – Domain Naming Service
  • Node filters, properties, and groups
  • HTTPS and DCE nodes
  • Service discovery
  • HTTPS nodes and certificate handling

From Event to Message

  • Sources of events
  • Events and policies
  • Anatomy of a rule within a policy
  • Anatomy of a message within a rule
  • Monitor policy types
  • Using the policy editor

Pattern Matching

  • Event sifting and rule selection
  • Pattern matching characters and expressions
  • Creating a new rule
  • Testing patterns
  • Command-line pattern matching tester

Rule Actions Processing

  • Find a match; process actions
  • Outgoing message defaults
  • If condition processing
  • Message correlation
  • Message keys
  • Suppress messages
  • HP Operations Software commands

Policy Management

  1. Working with policy versions
  2. Options and source tabs of the policy property page
  3. Deploying policies and instrumentation

Policies in Depth

  • Different policy types
  • Log file discovery
  • Threshold monitoring sources
  • Instance filters
  • Scheduled task policy
  • Service/Process monitoring
  • Windows management interface (WMI) policy, class browser, rules, and instance browser
  • SNMP interceptor policy

Performance Data Gathering

  • Embedded performance component
  • Golden and typical performance metrics
  • Data collection and storage
  • Using EPC to store metrics
  • Where EPC data is used

Reports and Graphs

  • Integration of HP Performance Manager and HP Reporter with HPOMW
  • Using HPPM to view and create graphs
  • Saving graphs as templates
  • Working with HP Reporter

Tools

  • Working with tools
  • Tool configuration editor
  • Run tools with a user context
  • Switch User (SU) functionality
  • Associating a tool with a node

Service Configuration Editor

  • Creating a service hierarchy in HP Operations Software for Windows
  • Calculation and propagation rules
  • Associating tools, graphs and reports with services
  • Add a dependency to a service
  • Service type editor
  • Policy deployment options

User Roles

  • Administrator and operator roles in HP Operations Software for Windows
  • Configure user roles
  • User role configuration properties on the General, Services, Nodes, Tools, Messages, Properties & Users tabs
  • Exploit user roles in the console

Administration

  • License management
  • Self management and flexible management
  • Agent pre-installation
  • Firewalls
  • Auditing
  • Log files
  • Database administration
  • Use command line utilities for management and troubleshooting
 

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