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MicroFocus Operations Bridge Manager

( Duration: 5 Days )

This MicroFocus Operations Bridge Manager training course offers technical personnel, who are new to Operations Bridge and Operations Bridge Manager, the opportunity to develop hands-on experience in applying the fundamental principles, methodologies, and capabilities for managing events using OBM.

By attending MicroFocus Operations Bridge Manager workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Use OBM to effectively identify, prioritize, and resolve events
  • Create event dashboards to meet the information needs of specific users
  • Identify the health of services and technology components based on Health Indicators (HIs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) presented in OBM
  • Create and use OBM performance dashboards
  • Create and use OBM tools
  • Manage OBM user access and permissions
  • Deploy Monitoring configuration to SiteScope
  • Create and tune OBM notifications
  • Assign monitoring to CIs using Monitoring Automation (MA)
  • Create Policy templates for monitoring Service/Process, Log files, SNMP Traps etc.
  • Create Aspects and Management templates in for ease of Monitoring deployment
  • Create and Exporting OBM Content packs
  • Manage Downtime events and notifications
  • Describe OBM Architecture and Deployment
  • Use OBM Self-monitoring capability and monitoring Operations agent health
  • Perform administration and troubleshooting tasks in OBM

  • IT operations principles and practices
  • Systems and network administration
  • Industry-standard operating systems
  • Network, system, and application monitoring principles and practices

The MicroFocus Operations Bridge Manager class is ideal for:

  • IT Tools engineers
  • Operations staff
  • Operations managers
  • Availability engineers
  • System administrators
  • Network administrators

COURSE AGENDA

1

Course Overview

2

Operations Bridge Overview

  • Identify how IT organizations can transition from a cost function to a value creator
  • Describe the Operations Bridge approach to addressing the challenges
  • Use the applications that comprise the Operations Bridge solution
3

OBM Overview

  • Use enterprise event management
  • Describe the purpose of an operations bridge
  • Identify how an operations bridge enables team members to collaborate effectively
  • List the components of Micro Focus Operations Bridge Suite
  • Identify the primary features and capabilities of OBM
  • Describe the data collectors that provide data to OBM
4

Event Perspective

  • Identify OBM operator workflow
  • Access the OBM User Interface
  • Assess events
  • Select and analyze events
  • Use Run Books
  • Remediate an event
5

Event Browser (HTML)

  • Use the Event Browser
  • Customize Event Browser
  • List the primary event attributes displayed in the Event Browser
  • Use event filters to locate events of interest
6

Performance Perspective

  • Access performance dashboards
  • Use display control features
  • Use multiple methods to select time ranges
  • Export performance dashboard data
  • Share a link to a dashboard with others
  • View real-time data
  • View event overlay data with performance data
  • Create a performance dashboard favorite
  • Use comparison dashboards to compare CIs
  • Create a dashboard
  • Add a parameter to a dashboard
  • Map dashboards to appropriate CI types
7

Health Perspective

  • Define Health Perspective highlights and menus
  • Access HI and KPI details
  • View various reports in the Health Perspective
  • Find visible and hidden CIs
  • Use Health Top View options
8

Monitoring Dashboards

  • Identify typical use cases for OBM monitoring dashboards
  • Describe OOTB monitoring dashboards provided with OBM
  • Access monitoring dashboards in My Workspace
  • Create a new monitoring dashboard
  • Create a new My Workspace page containing a monitoring dashboard
9

OBM Tools

  • Access and use OBM tools
  • Create OBM tools
  • Define OBM tool authorization
10

RTSM Overview

  • Identify the features of the Run-Time Service Model (RTSM)
  • Identify the role of the RTSM in an OBM implementation
  • Define CIs
  • Organize CIs and relationships in the class model
  • Navigate the RTSM administrative UI
  • Locate and analyze CIs and relationships in IT Universe Manager
11

Setting-up Monitoring

  • Describe the Agent based and agentless monitoring
  • Install Operations Agent on a Windows node
  • Install Operations Agent on a Linux node
  • Maintain Operations Agent on a node
12

Monitoring Automation Overview

  • Identify the features and benefits of Monitoring Automation
  • Monitor policy templates, aspects, and management templates
  • Navigate MA administration pages
13

Monitoring Automation Workflow

  • Assign MA management templates to CIs
  • Define custom parameter values for assignments
  • Create automatic assignment rules to assign and maintain monitoring
  • Verify monitoring assignments in MA
  • Access monitoring configuration reports in MA
14

Policy Templates

  • Create and assign a basic policy template
  • Add parameters to a policy template
15

Logfile Policy Templates

  • Describe the Log file encapsulator process
  • Create and assign a Log file policy template
  • Add parameters to Log file policy template
  • Test the Log file policy template
16

Service/Process Monitoring Policy Templates

  • Create Service/Process monitoring policy template
  • Assign Service/Process monitoring policy template
  • Test the Service/Process monitoring policy template
17

Open Message Interface Policy Templates

  • Create an Open Message Interface policy template
  • Assign an Open Message Interface policy template
  • Test an Open Message Interface policy template
18

SNMP trap Policy Templates

  • Create and assign an SNMP Trap policy template
  • Assign SNMP Trap policy template
  • Test SNMP Trap policy template
19

Aspects

  • Create and assign a basic aspect
  • Create a basic management template
20

Monitoring OBM and Data Collectors

  • Describe OBM Architecture and Deployment
  • Describe OBM Self-Monitoring
  • Describe monitoring Operations Agent Health
  • Locate log file information needed to troubleshoot OBM
21

User Management

  • Define OBM user management
  • Identify how permissions are defined within roles
  • Use roles and permissions and apply these to users and groups
  • Identify how roles are inherited by groups from parent groups
  • Create new roles, groups and users
  • Create Event assignment rules
22

OBM Administration

  • Understand Content Packs and their functionality
  • Use the OBM content types
  • Analyze OOTB content packs
  • Work with the OBM Content Manager
  • Create a content pack
  • Export a content pack
  • Identify downtime concepts and configuration
  • Identify OBM downtime behavior concepts and configuration
  • Set up OBM event notifications
  • Describe OBM license management
  • Identify infrastructure settings for OBM

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