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HP Operations Manager for UNIX II (Advanced Administration) Training |
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Onsite - Instructor-Led Training |
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5 days depending on audience background and options |
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| Introduction: |
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| This 5-day course is the second of three courses (H4356S + H4357S + UC342S) on HP Operations Manager for Unix 8.x.. Learn how to effectively monitor, control, and report on the health and performance of your heterogeneous IT environment by using HP Operations Manager for UNIX. |
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| Customize it: |
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| This 5-day HP Operations Manager for UNIX II (Advanced 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. |
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| Audience: |
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- HP Software Customers: System and network administrators, application administrators
- HP Software Channel Partners: Consultants, system architects, integrators and planners
- HP Software Engineers involved in pre-sales and post-sales
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| Prerequisite |
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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
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| Course Objectives: |
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After completing this course you will be able to:
- Perform advanced troubleshooting
- Configure HTTPS communication with agents, including the use of proxies and certificatesPerform alternative, secure, or off-line agent installations
- Perform alternative, secure, or off-line agent installations
- Understand the models for flexible management and be able to implement them
- Create new service hierarchies for the service navigator, using SNVP or XML
- Enhance security by using techniques for managing through firewalls, PAM, and filtering remote actions
- Describe the factors that affect OMU performance
- Manage OMU configuration and distribute OMU administrative tasks using the Configuration Value Pack (CVP)
- Configure server pooling and understand OMU operation in a High Availability envi
Benefits to you
- Provide follow the sun, competence-based, or backup management flexibility
- Configure OMU communication for use in secure environments, such as through firewalls
- Understand and create service hierarchies using XML or the Service Navigator Value Pack
(SNVP)
- Manage OMU configuration and distribute OMU administrative tasks using the Configuration Value Pack (CVP)
- Customize the Java GUI and create message view filters for your operators
- Use PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) for HP Operations Software authentication
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| Course Outline |
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Overview
- Architecture and Troubleshooting
- Communication and Firewalls
- Certificates
- Flexible Management Models
- Outages and Service Hours
- Ensuring High Availability
- Building Service Hierarchies
- Customizing the Java GUI
- Web Based Administration with CVP
- OMU Usage Security
Architecture
- Global Architecture
- HTTPS versus DCE Communication
- OVO Queue Files
- Open Agent Overview
- Component Architecture - Terminology
- OV Foundation
- Component Architecture (HTTPS Agent)
- Architecture - Message Flow, Policy Management and Processes
Alternative Techniques for Agent Installation
- OVO Agent and Command-Line Installation
- Agent Software Distribution
- Installing Agent Software (HP-UX)
- Offline Agent Installation Steps
- Manual Installation - HTTPS and DCE Agents
- HTTPS Certificate Requests
- Manual Agent Installation - Final Steps
- Windows Installation Server - Concept and Requirements
- Pre-Install Node Default Configuration
- Pre-Install Default Configuration - Syntax
- Agent De-Installation
OMU Communication and Firewalls
- OVO in Secure Environments
- HTTP Communication
- OVO and HTTPS - Managing through a Firewall
- Using HTTP Proxies
- Proxies and Content Filtering
- OVO and HTTPS -- Using Proxies
- Proxies - OVO Configuration
- Proxy Configuration - Syntax
- HTTPS Agent and NAT
- Traditional OMU Communication
- Use of the Reverse Channel Proxy
- Configuring Outbound-Only Communication
- DCE Communication Across Firewalls
- DCE RPC - Details
- DCE Nodes -- Firewall Configuration
Certificate Use and Management
- Certificates, Encryption and Signatures
- Certificates and OVO
- Use of Certificates and Private Key for SSL Handshake and Signature
- Basic Certificate Commands
- Certificate Deployment and Backing Up Certificates
- Granting Certificate Requests in OVO GUI
- Certificate Client and Server Commands
- Manual Certificate Deployment and Installation
- Using an Installation Key
Advanced Troubleshooting
- XPL Distributed Architecture
- XPL Trace Server
- Tracing -- Configuration
- Viewing Traces with the Windows GUI Client
- Restricting Trace Information
- Searching and Saving Trace Data
- Command Line Trace Utilities
- DCE Agent Tracing
- Verifying Core IDs and Certificates
- Invalid or Lost Certificates
- Compromised Certificates or Keys
- HTTPS Communication Problems
- OVO Test Tools
- Testing Data Flow
Flexible Management Overview
- Configuration Process
- Using Flexible Management !!Templates!! (Files)
- Checking Syntax: opcmomchk
- Why Consistent OVO Management Server Configurations are Required
- Maintaining Consistent Configuration Between OVO Management Servers
- Configuration Download, Distribution, and Upload
- Certificates (HTTPS Agents Only)
- Certificate Merge Process and Exchange Commands
- Flexible Management Roles (HTTPS Only)
Escalation: An Introduction to Manager-Manager Flexibility
- Problem Escalation
- Configuration Steps
- Create: Escalation Configuration File
- Check opcmomchk
- Deploy and Activate (Escalation)
- Other Tasks (Escalation)
Selective Message Passing
- Time Based Selection (Usage/Scenarios)
- Time Condition Concepts
- Attribute-Based Selection (Usage/Scenarios)
- Rules = Conditions + Target Managers
- Rules with Conditions
Agent-Based Flexibility
- Agent-Based Flexible Management
- Manager Roles, As Seen By Agents
- Configuration Process
- Create, Check, Deploy and Activate (Agent-Based Models)
- Switching to the Backup: opcragt -primmgr
Alerting Other Managers: Message Forwarding
- Message-Forwarding Flexible Management
- Message Consolidation Model
- Basic Concepts
- Manager to Manager Forwarding
- Switch-Control and Notification Messages Characteristics
- Architecture
- Check, Deploy, Activate (Message Forwarding)
High Availability
- High Availability and OMU
- Server Pooling Concept and Setup
- Configuring the Virtual Interface
- Setup other Managers
- Setup the Nodes
- Moving the Virtual Interface
- Uses of Server Pooling
- HA Support
- Cluster Concepts and OVO Terminology
- Managing HA Nodes with OVO
- Virtual Nodes and Physical Nodes
- Virtual Nodes and HARGs
- HA Nodes and OVO Policies
- Policies on Virtual Nodes
- Message Creation in HA Context
- OVO Messages from Virtual Nodes
- Enable/Disable of Policies
- CIAw -- User Commands
- DCE Nodes and HA Support
- Modify or Delete Virtual Nodes
- OVO Management Server as HA Package and as Virtual Node
- Shared Directories
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