Kurs informasjon: Using TSA with InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse - Flexible Instructor Led Online

This is an online course. Please do not make travel arrangements for this course. After you receive confirmation that you are enrolled, you will be sent further instructions to access audio, video and remote labs.

This course is designed for Information Management Lab Services and Support employees who need to learn about the use of IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (TSA) within the context of the Balanced Warehouse. All enrollments will be pended and only individuals in Information Management Lab Services or Support will be confirmed to attend the class.

This course will be taught as 4 half-day sessions within one week with hand-on lab homework time required outside of the online classroom sessions.

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. The student will also learn how to monitor the systems involved in the TSA component.

A second portion of this course instructs the student on the use of the TSA base component within an IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse system.

Finally, some troubleshooting techniques will be addressed.

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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.

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To maximize the benefits of this course, we require that 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

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• 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

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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

Day 1 homework

Exercise 2: Planning for TSA installation

Day 2

Review Exercise 2

Unit 3: TSA Resources

Unit 4: TSA Automation Policy

Day 2 homework

Exercise 3: TSA Resources

Exercise 4: TSA Automation Policy

Day 3

Review Exercises 3 and 4

Unit 5: TSA Administration and Operation

Unit 6: TSA Operations Console

Unit 7: The D5100 Balanced Warehouse system and TSA

Day 3 homework

Exercise 5: TSA Administration and Operation

Day 4

Review Exercise 5

Unit 8: Using TSA in the Balanced Warehouse

Unit 9: Troubleshooting TSA and the Balanced Warehouse

Exercise 6: Troubleshooting TSA and the Balanced Warehouse

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