EMC Ionix Service Assurance Adapter Platform Training (Smarts) (ADPT300)

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

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.

This hands-on course will provide you with a thorough understanding of how to use EMC Smarts Adapters to extend the breadth and intelligence of EMC Smarts Service Assurance Manager. Through hands-on labs you will see how information can be imported via SNMP trap integration, the syslog adapter, and the command line interface, and how data can be exported via custom adapters. You will configure and customize each of these adapters.
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Process topology and event information from any source
• Configure and customize the Service Assurance Manager Platform
• Use the command line interface to process data from multiple sources
• Configure and run the SNMP Trap Receiver to process SNMP Traps
• Configure and run the EMC Smarts Syslog Adapter to process syslog messages
• Configure and run notification adapters to export information from an EMC Smarts server

Modules

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

• SNMP Trap Receiver
• Advanced processing using a hook script
• Activation
• Simulation of traps using the sm_snmp command
• Syslog Adapter
• Configuration
• Analyzing Syslog Adapter configuration files
• Verifying security settings
• Setting the location of the syslog file
• Changing hook script parameters
• Activation
• Manual
• Script
• Notification Adapters
• Notification Adapter processing

Labs

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

• Configure and start a Service Assurance Manager Adapter Server
• Setting the sm_edit environment variable
• Configuring security
• Starting and configuring a SAM Adapter Platform
• Associating EMC Smarts Analysis Servers with the Adapter Platform
• Verifying topology and relationships
• Create and update notifications using the command line interface
• Creating and modifying notifications
• Creating new topology elements
• Setting and clearing events from multiple sources
• Setting event expirations
• Additional exercises
• Configure and run the SNMP Trap Receiver Modifying the Trap Receiver log file
• Starting the SNMP Trap Receiver
• Edit the trap configuration file
• Simulating a trap
• Creating custom SNMP traps
• Comparing 3rd party traps with EMC Smarts notifications
• Using an ASL hook script Modifying trap parameters
• Customizing user-defined fields
• Process syslog messages
• Reviewing the syslog file
• Configure and run Notification Adapters