Audience

This is an intermediate-level course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.

Prerequisites

Student should understand storage virtualization, SAN management, and zoning.

Course Agenda

	Generate the predefined reports in the web-based GUI
	Use Query Studio in the web-based GUI to create new reports
	Define schedules to automate reports
	Define output formats
	Connect your Cognos server to a second TPCDB database
	Restore deleted reporting packages

Course Overview

Day 1

• Unit 1: Introduction to Tivoli Cognos Reporting
• Unit 2: Query Studio
• Unit 3: Customizing Cognos
• Unit 4: Multiple Server Access for Tivoli Common Reporting
• Unit 5: Restoring deleted predefined reports
• Exercise 1: Testing the status of the local server and adding a remote server to monitor
• Exercise 2: Viewing and modifying a predefined report
• Exercise 3: Configuring email in Cognos
• Exercise 4: Scheduling a report for distribution
• Exercise 5: Using Cognos reports to determine resource relationship and performanc
• Exercise 6: Modifying a report in Cognos Report Studio to consolidate multipath information
• Exercise 7: Configuring Cognos to save reports to a file system
• Exercise 8: Saving a report to an external file system
• Exercise 9: Creating a report by using Query Studio
• Exercise 10: Running the new report
• Exercise 11: Gathering data and reporting changes in Cognos
• Exercise 12: Reporting on multiple Spectrum Control servers
• Exercise 13: Restoring default reports

Advancement

• TS113G: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.3 Installation and Configuration
• TS114G: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.3 Daily Operations and Provisioning