Detailed Course Outline
Introduction to IBM Agent Builder
- Introduction to Agent Builder
- Installing Agent Builder
- Introduction to the Agent Builder application
Agent creation basics
- Creating an agent in Agent Builder
- Monitoring Windows services
- Troubleshooting in Agent Builder
Creating agents for IBM Performance Management
- Creating agents for IBM Performance Management
- Filtering data sources
- Installing an agent with installation scripts
- Troubleshooting IBM Performance Management agents
Creating agents for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Installing an agent in an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment
- Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents
- Creating and importing ITM application support
Monitoring Windows resources
- Monitoring Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Monitoring Windows Performance Monitor
- Monitoring Windows log events
- Common agent modifications
- Testing an attribute group
Monitoring processes and command return codes
- Monitoring processes
- Monitoring command return codes
Monitoring custom data sources
- Monitoring script output
- Monitoring through a socket connection
- Defining attributes
- Creating derived attributes
- Generating agent output from the command line
- Monitoring log files
- Custom runtime configuration
- Java API
Monitoring remote and optional resources
- Data source-provided runtime configuration
- Subnodes
- Monitoring remote systems
- Monitoring Simple Network Management Protocol
- Monitoring HTTP URLs and objects
- Monitoring Java Management Extension
- Monitoring databases with JDBC