Kursbeskrivning: IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager 7.1 Concepts and Administration Workshop

IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager 7.1 is a powerful and flexible suite of IT Chargeback, Resource Accounting and Shared Services Billing Software.  Usage and Accounting Manager provides usage-based charging and accounting for On-Demand environments and Service Oriented Architectures. The product provides enterprises with the software they need to take charge of their IT infrastructure costs.  The Usage and Accounting Manager software measures, analyzes, reports and bills the utilization and costs of different computing resources within the target environment.  This course teaches you the skills needed to implement and administer a set of Chargeback strategies such as, account code conversion, rate, client, and user table maintenance, metering record conversion, and report distribution and generation.  Topics include but are not limited to: the data Collectors and the Common System Resource record, and the batch processing capabilities of the product, the Integrator, the Job Runner, miscellaneous and recurring transactions, and user maintenance, and exporting to Excel and Acrobat. Demonstrations and class exercises will allow the opportunity to practice the skills presented.

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This course is intended for the Usage and Accounting Manager or Administrator. The Usage and Accounting Manager or Administrator is the person responsible for assisting in the planning, implementation and administration of chargeback strategies.

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Knowledge of Microsoft Windows

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• Identify the modules that make up the product and the functions they perform.
• Pre and post-installation activities.
• Generate credit, miscellaneous, and recurring transactions.
• Identify the format and function of the processing files used by Usage and Accounting Manager.
• Identify the methodologies used to load cost files into the product's relational database.
• Create a set of chargeback processing strategies.
• Create Rate Code Table entries to accommodate the costing of new resources.
• Implementation planning, performing a skills inventory, setting project objectives, and breakout project tasks.
• Convert data from other applications into records that may be used by the Usage and Accounting Manager.
• Generate invoices, top usage, rate table, transaction and custom reports using the web reporting functionality.
• Configure and maintain client profiles.

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Day 1

• Unit 1: Resource-Based Chargeback Basics
• Unit 2: Component Installation Verification
• Unit 3: Administration
• Unit 4: Collecting and Processing Data
• Unit 5: Web Reporting
• Unit 6: Working With Rates

Day 2

• Unit 7: Working With Clients
• Unit 8: Working with Users and Groups
• Unit 9: Database Administration
• Unit 10: Implementation Planning
• Unit 11: Workshop Review and Open Study

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