CA EDUCATION COURSE DESCRIPTION CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.3: Administration Bundle Course Overview CA Datacenter Infrastructure Management (CA DCIM) captures detailed real-time information about energy use across your data centers and operational facilities, helping you to measure, trend, alert, and take action. PRODUCT RELEASE CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.3 This bundle consists of four courses that should be completed in this order: CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.x: General Overview 200 (33DCI20090): This course will cover a high level overview describing what DCIM is, the benefits of DCIM, DCIM use cases, the role of CA ecometer and CA Visual Infrastructure. CA ehealth r6.1: Operator 200 (02EHL20090): In this course, you will be introduced to the main features and enhanced functionality in CA ehealth r6.1, including the main features of OneClick for CA ehealth, which you can use to verify that Scheduled reports and database backups have run successfully. CA ecometer r4.0: Administration 200(33ECO20011): This course will provide the hands-on experience an administrator needs to create, integrate, manage, report and monitor your Data center using CA ecometer. CA Visual Infrastructure r4.6: Administration 200 (33VIF20011): This course will provide you with the knowledge you need to manage and connect devices, create alarms and monitor systems. You will learn to view both device and rack level data related to weight, power consumption, heat dissipation and available space.
COURSE TYPE, LENGTH & CODE o Delivery Method: ILT/VL and WBT o Duration: 5.5 days o Course Code: 33DCI2029B WHO SHOULD ATTEND o System Administrator o Application Administrator o Data Administrator What You Will Learn Define Data Center Energy Monitoring Define Data Center Infrastructure Management Describe the role of CA ecometer and CA Visaul Infrastructure Verify CA ehealth is running properly by reviewing alerts and log files Verify all reports that need to be run have successfully run Verify all CA ehealth backups have been performed successfully Verify all polling is occurring with minimal errors Interpret and respond to any issues that arise using the CA ehealth Live Health tools Interpret reports to understand short- and long-term problems Generate reports to gain information or in response to a request Identify CA ecometer Architecture Identify user interface components Define the gateway protocol Create mapping Integrate BMS Manage ecometer administration Calculate and manipulate data Run reports and group elements Create dashboard views Define Live Exceptions Monitor CA ecometer Define DCIM architecture Manage access rights and devices Connect devices Configure alarms and alerts View dashboards and trend charts Monitor systems
For Managers The CA DCIM solution provides clear visibility of all data center assets along with their physical connectivity and relationships to support the monitoring, reporting, and moves-adds-change of data center infrastructure components. CA DCIM solution can dramatically increase data center efficiency, capacity utilization, and operations work processes to save time, increase productivity and save money. System Administrators taking this bundle will be able to configure, monitor and run reports using CA ecometer and CA Visual Infrastructure. This will allow them to collect data that will improve efficiency and help reduce your IT and energy costs.
RECOMMENDED NEXT COURSES 33DCI20130 CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.x: Monitoring 200 Course Agenda -- CA Data Center Infrastructure Management r4.x: General Overview 200 Lesson 1 -- What is DCIM? Define CA Data Center Infrastructure Management Lesson 2 -- Benefits Describe the benefits organizations are provided when a CA DCIM solution is deployed Lesson 3 -- DCIM Use Cases Identify five sample use cases for CA DCIM including using DCIM to measure energy efficiency, gain insight into power and cooling, placement and commissioning of new equipment in the data center, data center capacity planning and trending and chargeback, specifically for Managed Service Providers (or MSPs) Lesson 4 -- Role of CA ecometer Describe the role of CA ecometer and some its key capabilities Lesson 5 -- Role of CA Visual Infrastructure Identify the role of CA Visual Infrastructure
Course Agenda: CA ehealth r6.1: Operators 200 Module 1 -- Administer OneClick for CA ehealth from an Operator s Perspective Module 2 -- Generate Reports using the Web Interface Identify the Main Features of OneClick for CA ehealth Verify Polling Occurs with Minimal Errors Locate Alerts and Log Files Confirm That Scheduled Reports Have Been Run Confirm That Database Backups Have Been Run Identify the main features of the web interface Generate element reports for a specific element Identify the features of on demand legacy reports Generate on demand legacy reports Identify the features of Query Studio reports Generate a Query Studio report Interpret on demand legacy reports Module 3 -- Run the CA ehealth Live Health Application Run the Live Exceptions tool Run the Live Trend tool Run the Live Status tool
Course Agenda -- CA ecometer r4.0: Administration 200 Module 1 -- Define Data Center Energy Monitoring Define energy concepts Identify common metrics Identify common monitoring points Module 3 -- Identify User Interface Components Identify user interface components Identify administrative components Module 5 -- Create Mapping Create an SNMP map Create a Modbus Map a BACnet device into the CA ecometer gateway Module 7 -- Manage ecometer Adminstration Add users and assign Roles Module 2 -- Identify CA ecometer Architecture Define CA ecometer architecture Define a gateway Define a calculation engine Define the ehealth backend Identify how the data server is used Identify common implementation scenarios Module 4 -- Define the Gatewaay Protocol Define how the protocol gateway works Define CA ecometer MIB Create protocol mapping Define MTF files Define controls Module 6 -- Integrate BMS Identify the best approach to integrate with Building Management Systems (BMS). Define the IM framework Import data Module 8 -- Calculate and Manipulate Data Create calculations with CA ecometer Identify the best approach for calculating data Identify scenarios that are used to manipulate data
Module 9 -- Run Reports and Group Elements Define reports and grouping elements Create trend reports Create counters and gauges Module 10 -- Create Dashboard Views Define View Builder Create views using View Builder Module 11 -- Define Live Exceptions Define basic concepts of Live exceptions Module 12 -- Monitor ecometer Save CA ecometer databases Identify database rollups
Course Agenda -- CA Visual Infrastructure Administration 200 Module 1 -- Define Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring Define power, space and cooling Define asset management Identify benefits Module 2 -- Define DCIM Architecture Define the CA DCIM Architecture Identify the probe Identify gateway monitoring Module 3 -- Manage Access Rights Create companies Create and modify device groups Create and modify user groups Create, clone, modify and delete users Module 4 -- Manage Devices Search and reference the device library Create a new device instance Clone a device instance Import/Export devices Define CA PAM Module 5 -- Connect Devices Synchronize with the SNMP Gateway Manually map a model Review the gateway summary Target and monitor attributes Create monitor attributes Apply monitor attributes to a device Module 7 -- Create Dashboards and Trend Charts Review out of the box dashboards Build and modify dashboards View working default and customer trend charts View out of the box reports Run reports Schedule reports Module 6 -- Create Alarms and Alerts Define alarm states Synchronize alerts with live exceptions Create alarm thresholds View the active alarm Panel Acknowledge and clear alarms View alarms Module 8 -- Monitor Systems Examine server settings View event panel Start and stop the probe Examine probe information Create backups