This course is not scheduled.
Overview
| Course code | DW330AU | Delivery type | Classroom
(Hands-on labs) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 3.0 days | Course type | Public or Private on-site |
| Public price |
AUD $2,700.00 ex GST
AUD $2,970.00 inc GST |
IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (SAMP or TSA) delivers high availability to applications and middleware spanning any combination of Linux, AIX, or z/OS platforms.
TSA contains two orderable components:
- Base component that provides high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for Linux, including Linux on zSeries and AIX server clusters.
- End-to-end automation management component that provides high availability for multi-tiered, or composite, business applications.
TSA is designed to provide high availability for critical business applications and middleware through policy-based self-healing that is easily tailored to your individual application environment. It includes plug and play automation policy modules for many IBM and non-IBM middleware and applications such as DB2, WebSphere, Apache and mySAP business suite.
This training class is provided in an instructor led environment with multiple opportunities for hands-on lab exercises in a Linux VMware image environment for the TSA portion. Also learn how to monitor the systems involved in the TSA component.
A second portion of this course instructs you on the use of the TSA base component within an IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse system.
Finally, some troubleshooting techniques will be addressed.
Audience
This course is for system administrators, DBAs, and implementers who are responsible for implementing IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms base component within a Balanced Warehouse system. This may include:
- IBM Lab Services personnel, implementing an IBM Balanced Warehouse solution
- Customers maintaining an IBM Balanced Warehouse implementation
This course is also appropriate for customers who have acquired the IBM Smart Analytics System.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Experience using relational database elements
- Experience using SQL statements
- DBA duties, such as backing up and restoring a database
- Prior experience administering a Balanced Warehouse system as a DBA or System Administrator
- Experience with UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows systems
Objectives
- Describe the major functions and features of IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (SAMP or TSA)
- Install TSA base component
- Define resources and automation policy
- Describe the TSA operations console
- Describe the major components of a Data Warehouse system, with respect to TSA
- Explain the use of TSA for high availability in these systems
- Describe the major components in a Balanced Warehouse system
- Configure the TSA parts for use in a Balanced Warehouse system
- Monitor the system failover capabilities
- Handle system failover scenarios in the D5100 Balanced Warehouse solution
Course outline
IBM Tivoli SAMP (TSA) overview
- Identify how TSA serves as a tool for managing and automating your applications in a multiplatform environment
- Identify the major components and functions of TSA
- Identify the role of TSA in IBM system automation software
Planning for TSA installation
- Prepare for installation
- Describe the supported platforms
- Describe the installation requirements
- Install TSA base component
TSA Resources
- Explain commonly used terms
- Create a Resource, resource class and resource attribute
- Explain the difference between persistent and dynamic attributes
- Specify the states of a resource and explain their meaning
- Use commands to create, remove, change and list resources
TSA Automation Policy
- Describe automation policy
- Specify the elements of an automation policy
- Define, list, remove and change resource groups
- Define, list, remove and change equivalencies
- Define, list, remove and change relationships between resources and resource groups
- Explain how TSA protects resources using quorum and tie breakers
- Define and use tie breaker resources
- Find and download predefined automation policies from the Web
TSA Administration and Operation
- Start and stop resources and resource groups
- List and cancel start and stop requests
- Move resource groups to other nodes
- Describe the process of binding resources to nodes
- Use samdiag to resolve automation problems
TSA Operations Console
- Install the operations console
- Configure the operations console adapter for direct access mode
- Automate, start and stop the console adapter
- Start and stop the operations console
- Use the operations console to monitor cluster resources
- Use the operations console to stop and start resources
The D5100 Balanced Warehouse system and TSA
- Describe the major components in the D5100 Balanced Warehouse system
- Identify the parts of TSA used in the D5100 Balanced Warehouse system
Using TSA in the Balanced Warehouse
- Explain the D5100 HA - BCU design
- Configure TSA as used in the D5100 Balanced Warehouse system with the db2haicu tool
- Monitor TSA usage
- Handle system failover scenarios in the D5100 Balanced Warehouse solution
Troubleshooting TSA and the Balanced Warehouse
- Explain how automation works
- Determine problems by a top-down, high-level approach
- Use the samdiag utility
- Review some error handling scenarios
- Gather information about the error condition
Agenda
Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1: IBM Tivoli SAMP (TSA) overview
- Exercise 1: Starting your Lab environment
- Unit 2: Planning for TSA installation
- Exercise 2: Planning for TSA installation
- Unit 3: TSA Resources
- Exercise 3: TSA Resources
Day 2
- Unit 4: TSA Automation Policy
- Exercise 4: TSA Automation Policy
- Unit 5: TSA Administration and Operation
- Exercise 5: TSA Administration and Operation
- Unit 6: TSA Operations Console
Day 3
- Unit 7: The D5100 Balanced Warehouse system and TSA
- Unit 8: Using TSA in the Balanced Warehouse
- Unit 9: Troubleshooting TSA and the Balanced Warehouse
- Exercise 6: Troubleshooting TSA and the Balanced Warehouse