Nimsoft Training
Nimsoft Systems Administrator Training Class
Nimsoft 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 Nimsoft and learn about the new features in the most recent releases.
Dates
- Sept. 27 - Oct. 1: Dallas, TX
- October 18-21: London, UK
- October 18-22: Chicago, IL
- November 15-19: Florida
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Skills Taught
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of your Nimsoft solution, including deployment in large enterprise environments
- Ongoing product administration
- Manage alarms and event notifications
- Database tuning
- Advanced automation & escalation strategies
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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
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Audience
This is an introductory course about Nimsoft intended for Systems Administrators and IT professionals who have a general understanding of enterprise performance management. |
Registration Instructions
We will be strictly limiting the number of attendees to ensure a quality experience for all, and registration will be done on a first come basis. |

Course Outline - US Training Dates:
(All training days run from 08:00 to 17:00)
Day One
- Nimsoft Infrastructure Overview
- Parts of the Nimsoft Infrastructure
- Ports used for each component
- Categories of probes & examples from each category
- Install Nimsoft infrastructure
- Install Nimsoft clients from your portal
- Nimsoft Manager
- Nimsoft Enterprise Console
- Nimsoft Service Level Manager
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Day Two
- Quiz and Q&A
- Install and configure Nimsoft Manager
- Distribute probes
- Overview of Enterprise Console
- Nimsoft Core components
- Probe configuration
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Day Three
- Quiz and Q&A
- Configuration of probes
- NAS
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Day Four
- Quiz and Q&A
- Enterprise Console
- Service Level Manager
- Report engine
- WebPublish
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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 Nimsoft
- Nimsoft Architecture Overview
- Introduction to the Nimsoft Manager
- Basic Nimsoft Infrastructure Installation & Configuration
- Installing Nimsoft in a Fire-walled Environment
- Configuring Hub Tunnels
- Using ACLs to Control Access to Nimsoft Components
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Day Two
- Overview of Nimsoft Probes
- Updating and Distributing Probes
- Creating and Distributing Custom Probe Configurations
- Nimsoft 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
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Day Three
- Nimsoft Enterprise Console
- Creating Simple Dashboards
- Uploading and Downloading Dashboards
- Using the new Dashboard Server and dashboard links in your dashboards
- Publishing Dashboards to the Nimsoft Web Portal
- Creating Mobile Maps
- Nimsoft Service Level Manager
- Creating Web-based Quality of Service (Performance) Reports
- Performing Ad Hoc QoS Data Queries via Nimsoft SLM Client
- Configuring FTP Options for QoS Reports
- Introduction to SLA Reports
- Controlling who can see which reports and dashboards on the Nimsoft
- Optimizing SQL Server Performance for Nimsoft
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Day Four (half day)
- End2End Overview: Simulating End-User Transactions and Collecting Application Performance Metrics
- SLM2EXCEL (Nimsoft Data Export Utility)
- Nimsoft Tricks and Tips
- Differences Between Current Release and Previous Release
- The Nimsoft Systems Administrator Training Class Final Exam, where you configure a complete Nimsoft 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 Nimsoft Server
- Nimsoft Architecture
- Installation & Configuration
- Nimsoft Manager
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Day Two
- Distribution of probes
- Nimsoft Probes
- Nimsoft Alarm Server (nas)
- Nimsoft Alarm Console
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Day Three
- Introduction to SLA
- Quality of Service
- Response time probes
- QoS & SLA reporting
- Nimsoft Service Level Manager
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