EMC Ionix ITOps ASL (Smarts) for Service Assurance Manager Training (ASLSA320)

This course is intended for System Administrators, System Engineers, Application Developers, and IT Managers.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, a student must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The student must have an understanding of he student must have an understanding of EMC Ionix ITops ASL.

A list of specific prerequisite courses can be found in EMC Education Services Learning Management System.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Populate user-defined attributes
• Access Information from the originating server
• Import information into SAM
• Enhance notifications

Modules

These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:

• Understanding the EMC Smarts Architecture
• EMC Smarts Architecture
• EMC Smarts Distributed Architecture
• Enhancing SAM with ASL
• Motivation for Using ASL with SAM
• General Overview of Enhancement
• Developing Data Exchange Adapter Hookscripts
• Associating a DXA Hookscript with a Domain Manager
• Understanding Notification Flow using a Hookscript Adapter
• Reviewing the Notification Class Attributes
• Populating User Defined Attributes in a Notification Object
• Retrieving Information from the Originating Server
• Retrieving Information from the SAM Server
• Importing Information into SAM
• Conceptualizing the Motivation for Importing Data into SAM
• Understanding the GA_StringDictionary Storage Class
• Importing Data from a File
• Automating Data Import at SAM Startup
• Utilizing Imported Information
• Accessing Imported Information
• Merging Imported Information into a Notification

Labs

Labs reinforce the information you have been taught. The labs for this course include:

• Populating User-Defined Attributes
• Accessing Information from the Originating Server
• Importing Information into SAM
• Utilizing Imported Information

Assessments

Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented during a learning experience. This course includes