TV383: IBM Agent Builder 6.3.1
DURATION: 3 days
SCHEDULED DATES: TBD – Contact Us for more Information
PURPOSE
This course teaches you how to use the IBM Agent Builder software to create, modify, debug, and package agents for use with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Performance Management products. You create agents that monitor many different data sources. You learn to mix, match, and manipulate monitored data to create custom data points to monitor. You also learn to add custom components specific to the different IBM monitoring environments. IBM Agent Builder can create custom agents for both the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.x and IBM Performance Management 8.x on-premises and SaaS environments. This course is applicable to students from either environment and a single class might have students from each environment. For many reasons, most of the exercises in the course continue to deploy most agents within an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment with only a small subset of exercises deploying in an IBM Performance Management environment. Most tasks for creating custom agents with Agent Builder are common to either environment. Students working in an IBM Performance Management 8.1.1 environment can feel confident that after attending this class they can be successful deploying Agent Builder agents in their environment.
AUDIENCE
This intermediate course is for agent developers, system administrators, and application administrators who need to create agents to gather custom data and integrate that data into either an IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.x, IBM Monitoring 8.x on-premises, or IBM Monitoring 8.x software-as-a-service environment.
OBJECTIVES
After you complete this course, you can perform the following tasks:
Describe the IBM Agent Builder application and the kinds of agents you can create.
Describe the basic process of creating a custom agent with Agent Builder.
Troubleshoot an Agent Builder agent during the development process and after installation.
Create agents for both the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IPM Performance Management environments.
Create and test agents that monitor the availability of resources, such as processes, Windows services, command return codes, and network devices.
Create and test agents that monitor events from log systems, log files, and SNMP.
Create and test agents that monitor data from server technologies.
Create and test agents that monitor data from custom technologies, such as scripts, log files, Java applications, and socket connections.
Create and test agents that include remote monitoring, custom attributes, derived attributes, Navigator groups, user-entered configuration information, and TEP components, such as queries, situations, and workspaces.
Create and test agents that use subnodes to optionally monitor local or remote data sources.
