IBM and LearnQuest Badge Program - Tivoli
LearnQuest is working together with IBM to offer IBM training courses and award digital badges upon successful completion and attainment of course objectives.
IBM Badge Courses Tivoli Series offered by LearnQuest:
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Scheduling and Operations
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Monitoring Advanced Administration
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Administration
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Operations and Scheduling
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Application Performance Management Fundamentals
- LearnQuest IBM Monitoring, Implementation and Administration
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus Installation and Configuration
- LearnQuest IBM Netcool OMNIbus Administration and Maintenance
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact Administration and Implementation
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli NetView for zOS REXX
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Implementers
- LearnQuest IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS PIPEs
- IBM Netcool Operations Insight 1.6 - Implementation and Configuration - Code: TN522G
LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Scheduling and Operations
This badge holder can manage batch workloads in z/OS with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler. They can schedule definitions and perform operational tasks that require an understanding of the end-to-end environment. The recipient has created and implemented planning objects such as workstations, applications, calendars, and resources. Badge earners are able to schedule these objects into a daily planning cycle, monitor and manage them.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question and answer sessions and/or assessments associated with the following topics:
- Creating scheduling objects, Long Term & Current plans, special resources, and Application Descriptions containing multiple operations
- Managing critical batch, restart & cleanup
- Automating recovery statements in JCL
- Controlling unscheduled batches
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Monitoring Fundamentals
This badge holder has demonstrated experience monitoring the performance and availability of operating systems and applications. The recipient learns about the Tivoli Monitoring architecture and how to navigate the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. They are also able to manage situation events, visualize real-time and historical data, manage user authorities, and publish monitoring workspaces.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Describing Tivoli Monitoring architecture;
- Building situations & visualizations to monitor the enterprise;
- Using & managing historical data, user authorizations, groups & events effectively within Tivoli Enterprise Portal & Tivoli Common Reporting & Monitoring.
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Monitoring Advanced Administration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with administering IBM Tivoli Monitoring and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is used by IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager, and OMEGAMON XE and DE to manage your enterprise environment. The recipient learns about creating queries, links, situations, autonomous agents, policies, agentless monitoring, and event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus and Tivoli Enterprise Console.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Creating & managing queries to access data, workflow automation with policies, agentless monitoring & links;
- Configuring and managing agents running in autonomous mode;
- Using Agent Management Services & commands effectively;
- Integrating events with Netcool/OMNIbus.
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Administration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with the administrative functions necessary to plan, install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot an IBM Workload Scheduler network. The recipient learns how to plan a network, define workstations and domains, and install and configure Workload Scheduler components.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Creating workstation and domain definitions;
- Installing and configuring Workload Scheduler agents;
- Configuring Workload Scheduler global options;
- Upgrade Workload Scheduler to the latest version;
- Create, reset, and extend the production plan;
- Maintain the agent processing, by using the console manager;
- Secure the Workload Scheduler environment by setting authentication and authorization constraints;
- Find and repair problems in the Workload Scheduler environment;
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Operations and Scheduling
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with the administrative functions necessary to plan, install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot an IBM Workload Scheduler network. The recipient learns how to plan a network, define workstations and domains, and install and configure Workload Scheduler components.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Explaining the production terminology used with IBM Workload Scheduler and its production planning process;
- Monitoring production batch workload processes;
- Creating and modifying scheduling objects;
- Managing production batch workload;
- Scheduling new workloads;
- Forecasting future workloads;
- Migrating workload definitions from test to production environments;
- Creatng and maintaining reports about production workloads;
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Application Performance Management Fundamentals
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with IBM Application Performance Management & IBM Application Diagnostics, including resource monitoring, deep-dive diagnosis & transaction diagnosis. The recipient is able to describe the IBM Application Performance Management Advanced architecture & use monitoring features of four supported IBM Application Diagnostics agents. The recipient can monitor resources, application code, real and synthetic transactions, and users with the WebSphere agent.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with: Describing the APM Advanced architecture; Using monitoring features of the four supported IBM Application Diagnostics agents; Monitoring resources, application code, transactions, and users with the WebSphere agent.
LearnQuest IBM Monitoring, Implementation and Administration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with Installing and using the IBM Monitoring software in various agents. The recipient is able to create applications, manage users, detect problems and integrate with other applications such as NetCool/OMNIbus and Dashboard Application Services Hub.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Installing IBM Monitoring & configuring it to integrate with other products such as Bluemix, Netcool/OMNIbus, IBM Operations Analytics & Control Desk
- Starting & stopping the Server
- and Managing users of the Performance Management Console
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus Installation and Configuration
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with performing a complete installation of IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1. The recipient has learned all the steps necessary to perform an installation, including hardware sizing, confirming software prerequisites, installation, creation of ObjectServers, installation of probes, installation of gateways, configuring high availability, and deploying historical event reporting.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Performing a complete installation of IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 including hardware sizing, confirming software prerequisites, installation, creation of ObjectServers, configuring high availability, & deploying historical event reporting
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LearnQuest IBM Netcool OMNIbus Administration and Maintenance
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with using this environment to explore advanced administration topics and deploy advanced features.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Performing major functions of Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator utility
- Using basic &advanced SQL
- Configuring, running &using probe integrations & advanced probe functions
- Implementing &examining ESF-based, multi-tiered architecture
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact Administration and Implementation
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with deploying & administering IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact. The earner is familiar with all fundamental elements of Netcool/Impact with a focus on developing policies within the Netcool/Impact product and exploring the features that enhance the visualization, usability, and integration functions.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Installing &configuring Netcool/Impact
- Creating, updating, and editing policies in the Tivoli Integrated Portal Console
- Using and deploying policies using wizards
- Creating Jazz for Service Management dashboard using Netcool/Impact data
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli NetView for zOS REXX
This badge holder has demonstrated experience on how to write REXX EXECs using NetView for z/OS. The badge earner has the knowledge that Restructured Extended Executor (REXX) EXECs can be written to simplify tasks that an operator might need to perform and to provide automation, both proactive and reactive.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with:
- Describing the basics of REXX EXECs in NetView
- Writing NetView REXX EXECS Issue commands
- Trap and parse messages
- Set and retrieve global variables
- Perform automation
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LearnQuest IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Implementers
This badge holder has demonstrated experience with managing systems graphically, dynamically, and flexibly. The badge earner knows how to implement IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with: Configuring, maintaining & planning IBM Tivoli Monitoring implementation; Installing Tivoli Monitoring server components; Installing & configuring Jazz & event synchronization with Netcool/OMNIbus & IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console.
LearnQuest IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS PIPEs
This badge holder has demonstrated experience on how to code NetView PIPEs within REXX EXECs to simplify operations and perform automation by using NetView for z/OS. The earner has knowledge about the PIPE stages supplied by NetView, issuing commands (NetView, MVS, and VTAM) in a PIPE and processing their output, and some complex PIPE stages.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
During a LearnQuest delivered course, badge earners have successfully achieved class objectives demonstrated by student progress in lab exercises, attendance, participation in question & answer sessions, and/or assessments associated with: Describing the basics of NetView for z/OS PIPEs; Writing code for NetView PIPEs w/ REXX EXEC; Issuing commands; Trapping&parsing messages; Setting&retrieving global variables; Reading from & writing to files; Coding multiple stage PIPEs; Performing automation
IBM Netcool Operations Insight 1.6 - Implementation and Configuration - Code: TN522G
This credential earner has completed instructor-led learning for understanding how to install and configure Netcool Operations Insight v1.6 base and Networks for Operations Insight. Skills covered include: installing the components of Netcool Operations Insight base; configuring event search and event analytics features; installing the components of Networks for Operations Insight; and configuring the topology search feature.
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Badge Criteria and Activities
Successfully complete the following IBM Instructor-Led course: IBM Netcool Operations Insight 1.6 - Implementation and Configuration - Code: TN522G
