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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

  • March 8-12: Chicago, IL    * Fully Booked *
  • March 22-26: Ft Collins, CO    * Space is Limited *
  • May 24-28: Dallas, TX

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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

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 Nimsoft 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:

Training will run:
Monday: 10:00am-4:30pm
Tuesday-Thursday: 9:00am-4:30pm
Friday: 9:00am-12:30pm

Monday

  • NMS Introduction
  • Background & Architecure of NMS
  • NMS Administration
  • ‘Lasso Your Cloud’ Session

Tuesday

  • Working with the Manager
  • NMS Core Components
  • Tunnel Example
  • ‘Essential’ Probe Configurations

Wednesday

  • Specific Probe Discussion
  • Web Reporting & Publishing
  • Nimsoft Alarm Server (NAS)
  • Correlation Example
  • Lua Scripting Lab

Thursday

  • Service Level Agreements (SLA)
  • Using the Service Level Manager
  • RUM/BSMx Overview
  • Dashboarding in SDP

Friday

  • e2e Tutorial Session
  • General Review Session
  • Final Exam - Team Scenario
  • One on One as Needed

 

Course Outline - EMEA Training Dates:

(All training days run from 09:00 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

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

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

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

 

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

Day Two

  • Distribution of probes
  • Nimsoft Probes
  • Nimsoft Alarm Server (nas)
  • Nimsoft Alarm Console

Day Three

  • Introduction to SLA
  • Quality of Service
  • Response time probes
  • QoS & SLA reporting
  • Nimsoft Service Level Manager

 

Free On-Demand Training for NMS customers

We asked our field System Consultants to prepare 1 hour live product training and demo of NMS in action.

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The list of Topics covered for you to reference and use when your time permits:

Topics Covered:

  • Nimsoft Unified Reporter overview & Demo
  • NMS Virtualization Hints & Tips
  • Best Practices in End-to-End (E2E) Application Monitoring.
  • Best Practices in building Nimsoft Dashboards (Enterprise Console).
  • Best Practices in building Nimsoft Dashboards (SDP).
  • Nimsoft QoS Reporting.
  • ENKI Case Study on Cloud Computing.
  • Nortel CS1000 Agentless Probe.
  • Capacity Management in Virtualized Infrastructures.
  • Building A Strong Foundation within your Nimsoft Infrastructure Manager.
  • NMS Communications—Understanding the “Big Picture”.
  • Customer Connect Webinar: NAS #1--Alarm Lifecycle.
  • Customer Connect Webinar: NAS #2--Auto Operator.
  • Customer Connect Webinar: NAS #3--Lua Correlation.
  • Customer Connect Webinar: Creating Custom Probes.