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n·fluence 2008 Agenda: At-a-Glance

Wednesday October 8: Technical Training

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NimBUS System Adminstrator Training

Instructor: Dan Hobbs

8:30am - 9:00am 

Introduction & Review:
We will review Tuesday’s material via Q & A
A quiz will be given to make sure of the classes understanding.

9:00am - 10:30am 

+ NimBUS Alarm Sever - nas 3.x (Part 2)

This section will expose you to nas scripting and the power of scripts. You will also see how to use triggers in various applications

10:30am - 11:00am

Break 

11:00am - Noon

+ Enterprise Console and Service Delivery Portal

In this two hour session we will see how to build a starter dashboard and publish that dashboard to the Nimbus Portal server. We will also see the new Service Deliver Portal in use and cover how it can be used to separate customers data via NimBUS accounts.

Noon - 1:00pm 

Lunch: 2 hours

2:00pm - 5:30pm 

+ Service Level Manager and Report Engine

This final session will bring together two more ways to display to your end users the quality of your management services. This is done by fulfilling a Service Level Agreement and placing reports onto the Portal, or Service Delivery Portal.

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Welcome Reception



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Indicative Training

Instructor: Justin Kaplan

8:30am - 9:00am 

Introduction & Review 

9:00am - 10:30am 

+ Indicative Dashboards

Designed to relay key metrics and trends to audience groups from Operations to Management, Dashboards are necessary for any Enterprise to effectively distribute performance data in a timely manner. The Dashboards course will cover the setup and configuration of the Executive (Zero-Config) Dashboard as well as the GeoService (Fully Custom) Dashboard.

10:30am - 11:00am

Break 

11:00am - Noon

+ Indicative Synthetic Transactions

The cornerstone of any Service Model is effective active sampling of end user quality. This is accomplished through accurate and reliable Synthetic Transactions. This course explores the setup, recording, and troubleshooting required for transactions in today's complex environments

Noon - 1:00pm 

Lunch: 1 hour 

1:00pm - 2:30pm

+ Indicative Advanced Administration

This advanced administration course will focus on logging, troubleshooting, test deployment, communication and other advanced topics.

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break  

3:00pm - 5:30pm 

+ Indicative Command Wrapper & Script Integration

Sometimes, there are metrics that exist in locations or formats for which there are no direct Test templates. These metrics are still available using Command Wrapper Integration tests. Using a PERL (or other) based script, metrics can be gathered in any way desired and formatted to become part of the context found in the Service Model.

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Welcome Reception



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Experienced User Training

8:30am - 9:00am 

Introduction

9:00am - 10:30am 

+ Best Practices in E2E

Presenter: Jim Christensen
Nimsoft End-To-End response monitoring products offer unlimited opportunities to model user interactions and measure application response latencies over time. This session offers insights into developing maintainable and reliable test scripts using the e2e_appmon probes and displaying the probes across a large or wide monitoring infrastructure.

10:30am - 11:00am

Break 

11:00am - Noon

+ Best Practices in Dashboard Design & Creation

Presenter: Dustin Lawler (US)
This session will help you design better performing, more manageable dashboards in the Enterprise Console. 

Noon - 1:00pm 

Lunch: 1 hour 

1:00pm - 2:30pm

+ NimBUS Alarm Server (NAS) Advanced Scripting

Presenter: Carstein Seeberg, Nimsoft Research & Solutions
This session introduces the pieces and provides hands-on practical training in setting up and writing NAS advanced scripts.

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break  

3:00pm - 5:30pm 

+ Ask the Developers

Panelists:  Carstein Seeberg, Nimsoft Research & Solutions and Mark Rivington, Nimsoft Vice President of Technology
Get to know the people that create the products you use today and the products you'll use tomorrow.  In this highly interactive session you'll be able to ask our panel of lead developers the questions you’ve always wanted the answer to.  Why did they use a certain technology, why didn't they use another?  What are they planning to do next? Have they ever thought about...?

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Welcome Reception

 

 

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