Nimsoft Training

NimBUS Systems Administrator Training Class

NimBUS is rapidly becoming the industry's de facto solution for achieving instant service level management value. This valuable course is your first step to success by learning hands-on, how to accelerate the deployment of NimBUS and learn about the new features in the most recent releases.

 

Dates
  • January 26-30, 2009; Seattle WA
Skills Taught
  • Installation, configuration and maintenance of your NimBUS solution, including deployment in large enterprise environments
  • Ongoing product administration
  • Manage alarms and event notifications
  • Database tuning
  • Advanced automation & escalation strategies
Cost
  • $2,500 (USA), £1300 / €1950 (Chertsey) or NOK 10000 (Oslo) per person - lunch and course materials are included
  • Local hotel recommendations can be provided on request
  • Attendees are expected to bring their own Wintel laptop - if you cannot bring a laptop to the class, please inform us in advance of your selected training date so alternative arrangements can be made
Audience

This is an introductory course about NimBUS intended for Systems Administrators and IT professionals who have a general understanding of enterprise performance management.
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Course Outline - US Training Dates:

(All training days run from 08:00 to 17:00)

Day One
  • NimBUS Infrastructure Overview
    • Parts of the NimBUS Infrastructure
    • Ports used for each component
    • Categories of probes & examples from each category
  • Install NimBUS infrastructure
  • Install NimBUS clients from your portal
    • NimBUS Manager
    • NimBUS Enterprise Console
    • NimBUS Service Level Manager
Day Two
  • Quiz and Q&A
  • Install and configure NimBUS Manager
  • Distribute probes
  • Overview of Enterprise Console
  • NimBUS Core components
  • Probe configuration
Day Three
  • Quiz and Q&A
  • Configuration of probes
  • NAS
Day Four
  • Quiz and Q&A
  • Enterprise Console
  • Service Level Manager
  • Report engine
  • WebPublish
Day Five
Final Exam.

 

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Course Outline - EMEA Training Dates:

(All training days run from 08:00 to 17:00 [Day four ends at Noon] )

Day One
  • Introduction to NimBUS
  • NimBUS Architecture Overview
  • Introduction to the NimBUS Manager
  • Basic NimBUS Infrastructure Installation & Configuration
  • Installing NimBUS in a Fire-walled Environment
  • Configuring Hub Tunnels
  • Using ACLs to Control Access to NimBUS Components
Day Two
  • Overview of NimBUS Probes
  • Updating and Distributing Probes
  • Creating and Distributing Custom Probe Configurations
  • NimBUS Alarm Server (nas)
  • Overview of the Auto-Operator Tab
  • Configuring Email Notifications
  • Executing Scripts And Implementing Automation Via Auto-Operator
  • Escalation Strategies and Creating New Alarms Via Auto-Operator
Day Three
  • NimBUS Enterprise Console
  • Creating Simple Dashboards
  • Uploading and Downloading Dashboards
  • Using the new Dashboard Server and dashboard links in your dashboards
  • Publishing Dashboards to the NimBUS Web Portal
  • Creating Mobile Maps
  • NimBUS Service Level Manager
  • Creating Web-based Quality of Service (Performance) Reports
  • Performing Ad Hoc QoS Data Queries via NimBUS SLM Client
  • Configuring FTP Options for QoS Reports
  • Introduction to SLA Reports
  • Controlling who can see which reports and dashboards on the NimBUS
  • Optimizing SQL Server Performance for NimBUS
Day Four (half day)
  • End2End Overview: Simulating End-User Transactions and Collecting Application Performance Metrics
  • SLM2EXCEL (NimBUS Data Export Utility)
  • Nimbus Tricks and Tips
  • Differences Between Current Release and Previous Release
  • The NimBUS Systems Administrator Training Class Final Exam, where you configure a complete NimBUS environment from scratch

 

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Course Outline - Norway Training Dates:

(All training days run from 09:00 to 16:00)

Day One
  • Introduction to NimBUS Server
  • NimBUS Architecture
  • Installation & Configuration
  • NimBUS Manager
Day Two
  • Distribution of probes
  • NimBUS Probes
  • NimBUS Alarm Server (nas)
  • NimBUS Alarm Console
Day Three
  • Introduction to SLA
  • Quality of Service
  • Response time probes
  • QoS & SLA reporting
  • NimBUS Service Level Manager