About this Course
IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS offers an extensive set of tools for managing and maintaining complex, multivendor, multiplatform networks and systems from a single point of control. The NetView for z/OS curriculum consists of four courses. You can tailor their training by taking one or more of the following courses:
- NetView for z/OS 6.1 Fundamentals (TZ203), where you learn the key concepts, components, and user interfaces associated with NetView for z/OS 6.1
- NetView for z/OS 6.1 Automation (TZ213), which covers the automation facilities of IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS
- NetView for z/OS 6.1 REXX (TZ223), where you learn how to write REXX EXECs using NetView for z/OS
- NetView for z/OS 6.1 PIPEs (TZ233), where you learn how to code NetView PIPEs within REXX EXECs to simplify operations and perform automation by using NetView for z/OS
This course combines the content from all four of these courses, thus providing comprehensive training for Tivoli NetView for z/OS version 6.1. It covers basic concepts, components, user interfaces, automation facilities, REXX, and PIPEs. Instructor-led discussions are reinforced with practical, hands-on lab exercises.
Audience Profile
This intermediate-level course is for Administrators who are new to NetView for z/OS Administrators who are moving to version 6.1 from a previous version.
At Course Completion
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the NetView key components and tasks
- Describe key functions
- Navigate these user interfaces: 3270 and TEP
- Use NetView commands
- Explain these user interfaces: NMC and web application
- Customize by using CNMSTYLE, style sheets, and reporting
- Explain basic IP management functions and System z networking
- Identify the data that is integrated from OMEGAMON XE products
- Identify event types that can be processed and the way that they arrive in NetView for z/OS
- Identify what actions are possible and where they can be routed
- Describe the functions provided by the message processing facility (MPF), the message revision table (MRT), and the command revision table (CRT)
- Implement Automation Table statements to automate messages
- Structure the Automation Table
- Manage the Automation Table
- Describe how to improve the efficiency of an Automation Table
- Use NetView timers to proactively monitor resources
- Describe the basics of REXX EXECs in NetView
- Write NetView REXX EXECS
- Issue commands
- Trap and parse messages
- Set and retrieve global variables
- Perform automation
- Describe the basics of NetView for z/OS PIPEs
- Write code for NetView PIPEs with REXX EXECS
Prerequisites
You must be familiar with:
- networking concepts and practices and the techniques for monitoring a complex environment.
Familiarity with previous versions of NetView is helpful, but not required.