IBM Datacap 9.0 Administration

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description

This course shows you how to do the type of maintenance activities normally carried out by a system administrator. You work with a Server-Client image pair with server services hosted on a server machine and workstation services and clients on a Windows 7 workstation.

Audience

This intermediate course is for:

Administrators who are responsible for configuring and administering Datacap 9.0 system.
Anyone who needs to know the Datacap 9.0 system administration.

Prerequisites

You should have:

Familiarity with data ï¿½capturing concepts

And you should have taken:

IBM Datacap 9.0: ï¿½Introduction F220G

Learning Objectives

Administration

Virtual Stations and Queuing of Tasks

Configure store and queue by options
Process a batch t demonstrate store and queue by operations

Add shortcuts for task links

Check the Database Connection Parameters
Create shortcuts for Datacap Desktop tasks
Create shortcuts for Web Client tasks
Create Shortcuts for Navigator client tasks

Disaster Recovery

Answer questions about disaster recovery

Configure DB2 databases

Define Databases Structures
Migrate Data from Access t DB2
Configure the Application for DB2
Verify the DB2 databases

Datacap and IBM System Dashboard

Use Listener Options t View Data
Monitor Components with Dashboard Views
Run Dashboard Reports

Maintenance

System Maintenance

Synchronize Job Monitor and Batch Folders

Maintenance Manager

Create a Maintenance Manager Application

Configure an Aut Start Schedule

Event Logs

Use Quick Log Settings t Analyze Event Log Content
Disable the Taskmaster Server and Rulerunner Server log
Activate Datacap Taskmaster server logging
Verify That the tms Log is Produced
Activate Rulerunner Server Logging
Verify That Rulerunner Logs Are Produced

Administration tasks

Create security users and groups
Edit the Jobs and Tasks
Create custom panels for tasks

Appendix

Start and Stop System and Components

System check procedures

ï¿½

Virtual Stations and Queuing of Tasks

Understand Queuing of Batches
Queue by Field Options
Store Field Option
Datacap Web Interface for task options
Add Shortcuts to a Start menu
Create task Shortcuts for Datacap Desktop tasks
Create task Shortcuts for Datacap Web client tasks
Create task Shortcuts for Datacap Navigator client tasks

Disaster Recovery

Backup and Restore Strategy
Backup and Restore for Stateless Servers
Backup and Restore the Taskmaster Server
Backup the Database Server
Backup the File Share
Configure DB2 Server
Supported Databases
Database Conversion Prerequisites
Define the Database Structure
Migrate the Database
Configuring the Application to use the Database
Taskmaster and IBM System Dashboard
What is the dashboard and what can you do with it?
Components and Architecture of the Dashboard
Start Dashboard and a Create Clusters to View Data
Execute Listener Options and View Data
System maintenance
Routine maintenance
Preventive maintenance
Corrective maintenance
Maintenance manager
What can Maintenance Manager do and what are its uses?
Three Maintenance Manager run methods
Create a Maintenance Manager application
Maintenance Manager action categories
Procedure to auto delete batches
Event Logs
Identify Logs
Control log content
Maintenance Manager actions for logging
Datacap Logs for logging internal calls
Datacap Logs for logging Rulerunner service events.
Where logs are located

RELATED COURSES

Technical Training
IBM

Essentials for IBM Cognos BI (V10.2.2)

This accelerated offering is intended for core project team members wishing to acquire a broad understanding of a Business Intelligence platform implementation. During the ILT segments, participants will perform hands-on demos and workshops that cover three essential topic areas: modeling, report authoring, and administration of a BI platform. Throughout the ILT, participants will be guided to more-in depth training offerings and paths leading to certification. During the WBT portion of the course, students will be required to complete 22.5 hours of eLearning (6 WBTs and 1 recording).

Technical Training
IBM

WebSphere Application Server V8.5: Using Intelligent Management

This three-day, instructor-led course teaches you the skills that are needed to configure and administer IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Intelligent Management features.

Intelligent Management provides capabilities that give your WebSphere Application Server environment better performance, throughput, scalability, availability, serviceability, and reliability, while reducing complexity and improving manageability.

In this course, you learn how to configure and monitor dynamic clusters, and how they should behave as different mixes of application requests are sent into the environment. You learn how to configure service policies that specify request importance and response time goals, and how to configure health policies to monitor for problems in your environment. You also learn how to use the application edition management features to roll out and validate new applications. The course also describes many other features of Intelligent Management.

The course concludes with a discussion of some of the design and deployment issues you must consider when you use Intelligent Management features.

Hands-on exercises throughout the course give you practical experience with WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Intelligent Management. In the exercises, you complete tasks such as creating and monitoring dynamic clusters, configuring service policies, managing application editions, configuring health policies, and working with centralized log management and request-based tracing.

Technical Training
IBM

IBM Flash Storage Fundamentals

This course is designed to provide a brief overview of flash storage.

Technical Training
IBM

IBM Security SiteProtector System: Basic Implementation and Administration

Intrusion prevention systems are a critical part of any information security architecture, and this course helps you master the tools required to successfully implement and manage the IBM Security infrastructure products.

The course focuses on mastering the SiteProtector Console. You gain knowledge of the SiteProtector components, learning how the different components act in concert to monitor and protect a real-world network. You also learn through hands-on labs how to configure SiteProtector and how to monitor and manage assets through the console.