TS600 - Tivoli Storage Resource Manager 1.1 Implementation

Duration:   2 Days
Delivery Method:   Classroom
Language:   English
Geography:   All
Cost:  $1095

The purpose of this 2 day hands on, instructor-led training is to show and explain how the features and functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can be used to administer and manage an organization’s storage resources and help meet its Storage Resource Management needs. Through lecture and hands-on exercises, the participants will install and configure the Storage Resource Manager server and agent, navigate through IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's interface, and monitor, evaluate, and report on the managed storage resources. The skills learned in this course apply to all IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager agent and server platforms.

Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

• Describe IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's main features and functions
• Explain the IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager architecture
• Install the Server and the Agent
• Fine-tune and configure your installation
• Uninstall IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager
• Navigate through IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's interface
• Define a file filter to create a custom profile
• Create Computer, Filesystem, and Directory alerts
• Learn how to use IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's Triggered Action Facility by running scripts
• Describe the Policy Management functions of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager
• Create Quotas and Constraints
• Learn how to use IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's Scheduled
• Learn how to use IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's Triggered Action Facility by running scripts
• Learn how to use IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager's Scheduled Action Facility by running scripts
• Understand how to use scripts within IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager
• Navigate through the Reporting tree
• View System reports
• Generate and manipulate reports
• Create Batch Reports

Who Will Benefit From This Course

This course is intended for Storage Area Network System Administrators and Implementers.

Required Skills/Knowledge

File system, volume, LUN, and disk management Basic database administration (DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL) Storage administration, including SAN

Recommended Courses

None

Course Outline

1. IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager Overview Describeshow IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can help meet the storage management needs of an organization.

2. Configuration and Getting Started - Discusses the basic concepts behind IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and describes how to configure it for any environment.

3. Installing IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager - Explains the IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager architecture framework and shows how to install IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager/OS.

4. Monitoring - Explains how IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager monitors an organization's storage resources.

5. Alerting - Explains how IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager triggers alerts based on the storage information gathered through Monitoring jobs.

6. Policy Management - Explains how to use Quotas, Constraints, and scheduled actions to enforce storage policies within an organization.

7. Using Scripts - Explains how to use scripts with the Triggered Action and Scheduled Action Facilities to perform actions against storage resources.

8. Reporting - Explains how the extensive reports generated by IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can be used to view the information gathered through Monitoring jobs.