5 Days

Introduction

This 5-day course is intended to make students self-sufficient in handling the day-to-day tasks involved in installing, administering, and using HP Software Performance Insight version 5.4 in a standalone (single-server) installation. This course is taught on Windows® platforms, but includes additional information needed to operate Performance Insight on a UNIX system.

Audience

This course is designed for those Network and System administrators tasked with the installation, configuration and maintenance of the HP Software Performance Insight 5.4 product

Prerequisite

Students should be network or server managers who have solid networking or server background and experience. Students should have a general understanding of:

• Installation and administration of applications in a Windows® environment
• Network or Server management concepts and solutions
• Network or Server capacity planning concepts and solutions
• Very basic LAN/WAN network concepts
• Basic SNMP or OVPA data collection and SNMP MIB concepts

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Understand the basic operation of data collection and reporting
• Install Performance Insight software
• Administer node list, polling groups, and polling policies
• Use device and type discovery capabilities
• Install and administer the Common Properties solution
• Install and administer the System Resources solution
• Install and administer the Interface Reporting solution
• Manage element properties
• Use and administer reports and report access features
• Schedule, generate, and view standard reports
• Configuring and managing Threshold Event Generation
• Perform a basic troubleshooting and understand log file entries
• Optimize the routine system processes for
• maximum
performance

Course Outline

Day 1

• Introduction to OVPI
• Installing OVPI
• Selecting Report Packs
• Installing Report Packs
• Adding Nodes

Day 2

• Grouping Nodes for Polling
• Provisioning Common Properties
• Viewing Reports
• Defining Users and their Report Access

Day 3

• Getting the Right Reports to the Right Users
• Controlling Access to Data
• Scheduling Reports
• OVPI Architecture
• Using MIB Browser

Day 4

• System Resource Report Pack
• Interface Reporting Report Pack (Basics)
• Interface Reporting Report Pack (Advanced)
• Accessing Individual Elements Using Object Manager

Day 5

• Focusing Report Content with Reporting Groups
• Thresholds and Event Generation
• Managing the OVPI Database
• Troubleshooting OVPI

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