May 8th – 10th 2013 VMware will host a 3 day beta training at their Frimley UK HQ for their new VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Advanced Usage and Dashboard Design training.
This training course focuses on the advanced capabilities of VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ 5.6, such as adapters, customization and management topics. You will learn how to use adapters, define custom super metrics, customize dashboards, and use the Custom user interface.
I have been fortunate enough to participate in an alpha training for this class and must say I enjoyed it very much. Very useful for people that want to customize their vCOps environment to show specific metrics or combined metrics
Cost for this training is around 50% of the normal price
See the attached info sheet, and if interested, register for this training here
Space is limited
beta announcement – vcops advanced 5 x
Objectives: | • Identify the capabilities of adapters, their use cases, availability, and installation. • Describe super metrics, attributes, and attribute packages as well as object tagging. • Manage user access to the VMware vCenter Operations Manager Custom UI. • Work with smart alerts and custom alert notification. • Use custom dashboards to build specific views for operations and application monitoring. |
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Intended Audience: | System administrators and consultants responsible for customizing vCenter Operations Manager to expand from the vSphere User Interface to a customized environment | |
Prerequisites: | • Install and configure basic settings in vCenter Operations Manager. • Log in and use the vSphere user interface of vCenter Operations Manager. • Identify the difference between badges and metrics. |
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Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives 2 vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Architecture • Introduce vCenter Operations Manager architecture • Explain sizing guidelines • Describe vCenter Operations Manager availability and backup 3 Advanced Capacity Planning • Examine planning models • Define policy management 4 Adapters for Data Collection • Understand adapters • Identify available adapters • Install and configure adapters • Troubleshoot adapters 5 Applications, Groups, and Tags • Introduce the application design concept in vCenter Operations Manager • Configure and use attribute packages and KPIs • Create tags and groups 6 Metrics, Super Metrics, KPI, and Attribute Packaging • Understanddata collection • Describe super metrics 7 Dashboards • Introduce custom dashboards • Manage widgets • Manage interactions • Manage templates 8 Smart Alerts and Custom Alerts • Work with and troubleshoot alerts • Configure alert notifications 9 Report Customization • Introduce custom reports • Understand data sources and report structure • Manage custom reports 10 User and Role Management • Manage user and role permissions for the vSphere UI • Manage user and group permissions for the Custom UI 11 Troubleshooting • Identify the basic troubleshooting workflows • Understand Self Info and self-monitoring of vCenter Operations Manager • Examine the Support Page in the Custom UI |