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Course Name:   HP Performance Insight Software: Administration I Training
     
Deployment Options:   Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
     
Course Duration:   5 days depending on audience background and options
 
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Introduction:
 
This five-day course makes students self-sufficient in handling the day-to-day tasks involved in installing, administering, and using HP Performance Insight software version 5.2 in a stand-alone (single-server) installation. This lecture lab course is taught on Windows platforms, but includes information for operating PI on Unix systems
 
Customize it:
 
This 5-day HP Performance Insight software Admin course will be customized to your eeds 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:
 
Performance Insight administrators who are responsible for the day-to-day administration, and maintenance of the Performance Insight environment
 
Prerequisite
 
  • General understanding of the following subjects:
  • Installation and administration of applications in a Windows® environment
  • Network and system management concepts and solutions
  • Network and system capacity planning concepts and solutions
  • Very basic LAN/WAN network concepts
  • Basic SNMP data collection and SNMP MIB concepts;
 
Course Objectives:
 

What you will learn:

  • Install Performance Insight Software
  • Understand what reporting solutions are available for PI
  • Install and administer the Interface Reporting solution
  • Install and administer the Device Resources and System Resources solution
  • Install and administer the Common Properties solution
  • Manage element properties
  • Understand the basic operation of data collection and reporting features
  • Use device and type discovery capabilities
  • Administer node list, polling groups, and polling policies
  • Schedule, generate, and view standard reports
  • Use and administer reports and report access features
  • Perform a basic troubleshooting and understand log file entries
  • Optimize the routine system processes for maximum performance

Benefits to you

  • Successfully install and configure HP Performance Insight Software to monitor your environment
  • Provide the best reports to the right people with the right amount of information
  • Prevent cross-contamination of information getting to the wrong set of viewers
  • Minimize system and network resource utilizationn to implement your solution
 
Course Outline
 
Introduction to HP Performance Insight Software
• Positioning Performance Insight with ITIL and


HP ITSM

• Overview of Operation
• Overview of Reports


Installing HP Performance Insight Software

• Hardware and Software Prerequisites
• Step-by-Step Installation
• Verification and Troubleshooting of


Installation

Selecting Report Packs
• Review of Report Types
• Review of Report Packs Available


Installing Report Packs

• Step-by-Step Installation

Adding Nodes

• Add nodes from console
• Import nodes from a file
• Import file of nodes from command line
• Remove nodes
• SNMP access and community string profiles

Grouping Nodes for Polling

• Compare types of polling groups
• Create, Edit, Delete polling groups
• Putting nodes into groups

Provisioning Common Properties

• Create, Edit, Delete Customers, Locations, and Nodes
• Assign nodes to customer and location using forms
• Assign nodes using import files

Viewing Reports

• Using the Web Browser
• Using the native Report Viewer
• Locating a report
• Using report elements
• Customizing reports
• Downloading and emailing reports

Defining Users and their Report Access

• Create, modify, delete user accounts
• Set user preferences and capabilities

Getting the Right Reports to the Right Users

• Create, modify, delete catalogs of reports
• Map users to catalogs
• Deploy, undeploy reports

Controlling Access to Data

• Create, modify, delete user groups
• Create, modify, delete data filters
• Map groups to data filters

Scheduling Reports

• Create, modify, delete schedule events
• Place reports in schedules

Data Collection and Operation

• Scheduling PI operations
• Reading data collection and rollup schedules
• Data collector operation and parameters
• Data analysis and aggregation

Database Architecture

• Data tables and their structure
• Property tables and their structure
• Key mappings
• Viewing data in tables

HP Education services are governed by the HP Education Services Terms and Conditions 4 Using MIB Browser

• Loading a MIB
• SNMP get data

System Resources Report Pack

• Reports available
• Data collection
• Data analysis and summarization

Interface Reporting Operation

• Reports available
• Data collection
• Data analysis and summarization
• Handling reindexing

Using Object manager

• Locate an object
• Update information
• View reports

Focusing Report Content with Reporting Groups

• Grouping nodes for presentation
• Types of groups
• Create and apply groups

Managing the Performance Insight Database

• Monitor database size
• Aging and retention
• Indexing
• Tuning the database

• Streamlining rollups

Troubleshooting Performance Insight

• Verify PI health
• Troubleshooting data collection
• Troubleshooting reporting
 

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