Book description
This IBM Redbooks publication is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Version 4.2.2 and is aimed at the people who want to get IBM Certifications in this specific product.
The IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Certification, offered through the Professional Certification Program from IBM, is designed to validate the skills required of technical professionals who work in the implementation of the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Version 4.2.2 product.
This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam.
This publication does not replace practical experience, nor is it designed to be a stand-alone guide for any subject. Instead, it is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, can be a very useful preparation guide for the exam.
Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.
Table of contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Certification overview
- Chapter 2: Tivoli Management Framework basics
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Chapter 3: Tivoli Configuration Manager fundamentals and installation
- IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager fundamentals
- Creating a deployment plan for Tivoli Configuration Manager
- How to deploy Tivoli Configuration Manager components
- Required roles for installation
- RDBMS considerations
- RIM considerations
- General pre-install checks, hints, and tips
- Installation methods
- Overview of Integrated Install
- Server Install
- Desktop Install
- Web Gateway Install
- Uninstallation of IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager
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Chapter 4: Inventory and Software Distribution components
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Inventory component
- What is gathered by Tivoli Inventory
- Inventory architecture
- Collection Table of Contents
- Collection files
- Inventory Collectors
- Collection manager
- Data Handler
- Status Collector
- Callback object
- Managing data collection
- Clearing the Collector
- Inventory collection scenarios (1/2)
- Inventory collection scenarios (2/2)
- Custom scans
- Isolated scans
- Querying inventory data
- Software Distribution component
- Data Moving
- Enterprise Data Warehouse integration
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Inventory component
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Chapter 5: Deployment Services
- Activity Planner
- Change Manager
- Enterprise Directory integration
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Resource Manager and pervasive devices
- Choosing where to install the Resource Manager components
- Web Gateway installation
- Web objects
- Registering the resource types
- Associating endpoints with the resource gateway
- Enrolling pervasive devices
- Installing and configuring devices for resource manager
- Installing the device agent for Windows CE devices
- The user ID of palm devices
- Inventory scans on pervasive devices
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Pristine Manager
- Pristine Manager architecture and new components
- Supported platforms for pristine installation
- Key terms
- Pristine Manager concepts
- Prerequisites
- Installing pristine machines
- Customizing Pristine Manager (1/2)
- Customizing Pristine Manager (2/2)
- Adding an Operating System Element to a reference model
- Pristine Manager commands
- IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console notification
- Chapter 6: Multicast concepts and implementation
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Chapter 7: Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager
- Generic problem determination outline
- Troubleshooting Framework 4.1.1
- Autotrace
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Troubleshooting Software Distribution
- General troubleshooting
- Check the log
- Check the Distribution Status Console
- Make sure that Tivoli Framework is functional
- Check for MDist2 problems
- Troubleshooting the software package
- Software Distribution traces
- Troubleshooting Data Moving
- Troubleshooting Mobile Computing
- Troubleshooting pristine installations
- Troubleshooting discovering and synchronization
- Change Management Status summary
- Troubleshooting Activity Planner
- Troubleshooting Change Manager
- Troubleshooting Web Gateway and Device Management
- Troubleshooting Web User Interface
- Troubleshooting Enterprise Directory Integration
- Troubleshooting Inventory
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Appendix A: Lab exercises
- Introduction
- LAB 1 Using Integrated Install method to install a Tivoli Server
- Install your Tivoli Server with all ITCM modules (1/3)
- Install your Tivoli Server with all ITCM modules (2/3)
- Install your Tivoli Server with all ITCM modules (3/3)
- LAB 2. Using Integrated Install method to install a Tivoli server
- LAB 3. Create an Inventory profile and run a hardware scan
- LAB 4. Create an Inventory profile and run and cancel the software scan
- LAB 5. Create a Custom Query with where clauses
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LAB 6. Create and install software packages for Windows
- What this exercise is about
- What you should be able to do
- Required materials
- Exercise instructions
- Install the Software Package Editor
- Create a simple package
- Test the software package
- Import the software package
- Install the software package
- Verify the distribution was successful
- Install software package in transactional mode and commit installation
- Undo an installation
- Repair a damaged distribution
- Add links, registry keys, and text file objects
- LAB 7. Creating a software package using AutoPack
- LAB 8. Verifying the status of a software package
- LAB 9. Using the Activity Planner
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LAB 10. Using Change Manager
- What this exercise is about
- What you should be able to do
- Required materials
- Introduction
- Exercise instructions
- Configuring RIM and RDBMS for Change Manager
- Assigning CM roles
- Registering the CM plug-ins
- Creating a Reference Model using an existing Endpoint
- Customizing the Reference Model
- Submitting the Reference Model
- LAB 11. Using Data Moving Service
- LAB 12. Using Multicast to install a software package
- Appendix B: Additional material
- Related publications
- Index (1/2)
- Index (2/2)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Certification Study Guide: IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager (ITCM) Version 4.2.2
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2005
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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