About BMC Performance Assusrance (UNIX Console)

This is an introductory course designed to teach basic concepts and familiarize the student with the functionality of the product, using the UNIX version of the BMC Performance Assurance console. The course offers detailed lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs to help you quickly gain a working knowledge of each component of the BMC Performance Assurance suite of tools for distributed systems.

Topics include metric collection and analysis, workload characterization, report and graph automation, drill-down investigating, system modeling, metric data administration, report and log interpretation.

Hands-on labs allow the participants to experience and experiment with the concepts presented in the class.

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Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Use the Collect technology to record performance metrics of distributed systems
• Analyze data for both Capacity Planning and Performance Management purposes
• Build and evaluate models for Predicting the performance of your system
• Create and publish robust graphs and reports using Visualizer
• Gain a working knowledge of the Perceive user interface
• Define and implement real-time management Investigate policies

Course Details

• Code: IFMG-PPAU-0740
• Product: BMC Performance Assurance (MS UNIX Console), Version 7.4
• Delivery: Instructor Led Training (ILT)
• Duration: Four days
• Target Audience:
  • Administrators
  • Distributed Performance Analysts
• Prerequisites:
  • Experience with both the UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems
  • Familiarity with your own distributed systems environment
  • Knowledge of physical and logical volumes and file system management

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