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Hands On Lab Exercises

Some learning modules have hands on lab exercises to help reinforce your understanding of a topic. To complete these lab exercises you will need a BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 appliance.

For customers and partners licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Training Appliance with pre-populated data is available from the BMC EPD site.

For those currently not licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 we recommend you use the BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Community Edition. Note that the Community Edition will not include pre-populated data which will mean that some lab exercises will not be supported.

Project Manager Training (4 Hours)

Target Audience

Project Managers for a BMC Atrium Discovery deployment.

Course Overview

The course provides an understanding of the key concepts and core functionality of interest to project managers of a BMC Atrium Discovery deployment. You should be aware that some features covered in this training may be restricted to BMC Atrium Discovery Enterprise Edition and not available in the Community Edition.

The course will be updated during Feb – Mar to also include project management disciplines of:

• Requirements Definition
• Estimating
• Planning
• Delivery
• Best Practice Technical Approaches

This course contains the following modules

1. ADDMI-01 Why ADDM? (15 mins)
   

   Learn how BMC Atrium Discovery supports planning and tracking progress of data center projects

2. ADDMI-02 ADDM Overview (12 mins)
   

   Learn how BMC Atrium Discovery works

3. ADDMI-03 ADDM Prerequisites (12 mins)
   

   Learn about BMC Atrium Discovery deployment: pre-requisites, security and risk considerations

4. ADDMI-04 Virtual Appliance Installation (10 mins)
   

   Learn how to setup and install the BMC Atrium Discovery virtual appliance

5. ADDMI-05 Windows Slave Installation (5 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how to install and setup Windows discovery slave software

6. ADDMI-06 Security Management (8 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how to set up users and configure User Interface security

7. ADDMI-11 Intro to Patterns (15 mins)
   

   Learn about patterns along with how to install and manage them

8. ADDMI-13 Discovery Overview (21 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how the discovery process works

9. ADDMI-14 Discovery Credentials (30 mins)
   

   Learn about the Unix, Windows and software credentials needed for discovery

10. ADDMI-15 Discovery Scripts (15 mins) (Download Lab)
    

    Learn about the different methods, scripts and commands used in the discovery process

11. ADDMI-18 Appliance Baseline (10 mins)
    

    Learn how to monitor appliance configuration changes

12. ADDMI-23 CMDB Sync (6 mins)
    

    Learn about enhancements to export to Atrium CMDB

13. ADDMI-09 Analysis UI - Reporting (15 mins)
    

    Learn how to access and manipulate built in reports to suit your reporting needs

14. ADDMI-22 Query Builder (8 Mins)
    

    Learn about the reporting enhancements that make custom reporting available to all users

15. ADDMI-09.5 Analysis UI - Host-Grouping (23 mins)
    

    Learn how to access dependency visualizations to help you better understand relationships between discovered hosts, software and applications

16. ADDMI-20 Support and Info (7 mins)
    

    How to help us help you

17. PM Scoping (20 mins)
    

    Learn how to scope and size an ADDM deployment project

18. PM Training - ADDM Architecture Overview (20 mins)
    

    Learn about different deployment architecture considerations for successful ADDM deployment

19. ADDM Application Modeling Process (20 mins)
    

    Learn about the process for capturing head knowledge needed for effective business application modeling

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Hands On Lab Exercises

Some learning modules have hands on lab exercises to help reinforce your understanding of a topic. To complete these lab exercises you will need a BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 appliance.

For customers and partners licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Training Appliance with pre-populated data is available from the BMC EPD site.

For those currently not licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 we recommend you use the BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Community Edition. Note that the Community Edition will not include pre-populated data which will mean that some lab exercises will not be supported.

Stakeholder Training (4 Hours)

Target Audience:

Stakeholders of a BMC Atrium Discovery deployment:

• IT Security
• IT Infrastructure
• Host Owners
• Application Owners

Course Overview

The course provides an understanding of the key concepts and core functionality of interest to stakeholders of a BMC Atrium Discovery deployment. You should be aware that some features covered in this training may be restricted to BMC Atrium Discovery Enterprise Edition and not available in the Community Edition.

This course contains the following modules

1. ADDMI-01 Why ADDM? (15 mins)
   

   Learn how BMC Atrium Discovery supports planning and tracking progress of data center projects

2. ADDMI-02 ADDM Overview (12 mins)
   

   Learn how BMC Atrium Discovery works

3. ADDMI-03 ADDM Prerequisites (12 mins)
   

   Learn about BMC Atrium Discovery deployment: pre-requisites, security and risk considerations

4. ADDMI-04 Virtual Appliance Installation (10 mins)
   

   Learn how to setup and install the BMC Atrium Discovery virtual appliance

5. ADDMI-05 Windows Slave Installation (5 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how to install and setup Windows discovery slave software

6. ADDMI-06 Security Management (8 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how to set up users and configure User Interface security

7. ADDMI-13 Discovery Overview (21 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how the discovery process works

8. ADDMI-14 Discovery Credentials (30 mins)
   

   Learn about the Unix, Windows and software credentials needed for discovery

9. ADDMI-15 Discovery Scripts (15 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn about the different methods, scripts and commands used in the discovery process

10. ADDMI-18 Appliance Baseline (10 mins)
    

    Learn how to monitor appliance configuration changes

11. ADDMI-08 Dashboards (15 mins) (Download Lab)
    

    Learn how to access and configure different dashboards to suit your reporting needs

12. ADDMI-09 Analysis UI - Reporting (15 mins)
    

    Learn how to access and manipulate built in reports to suit your reporting needs

13. ADDMI-22 Query Builder (8 Mins)
    

    Learn about the reporting enhancements that make custom reporting available to all users

14. ADDMI-09.5 Analysis UI - Host-Grouping (23 mins)
    

    Learn how to access dependency visualizations to help you better understand relationships between discovered hosts, software and applications

15. ADDMI-23 CMDB Sync (6 mins)
    

    Learn about enhancements to export to Atrium CMDB

16. ADDMI-20 Support and Info (7 mins)
    

    How to help us help you

Got a Question?

Visit the Training Feedback Forum if you have a question or feedback relating to the content covered in this training.

Hands On Lab Exercises

Some learning modules have hands on lab exercises to help reinforce your understanding of a topic. To complete these lab exercises you will need a BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 appliance.

For customers and partners licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Training Appliance with pre-populated data is available from the BMC EPD site.

For those currently not licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 we recommend you use the BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Community Edition. Note that the Community Edition will not include pre-populated data which will mean that some lab exercises will not be supported.

End User Training (1 Hour 30 Minutes)

Target Audience:

End users who need to consume data in BMC Atrium Discovery

• Configuration Managers
• Managers
• Change Managers
• DBAs
• Application Support

Course Overview

The course provides an understanding of the key concepts, dashboards, reports and dependency visualizations in BMC Atrium Discovery. On completion of the course participants will be able to navigate and access data in BMC Atrium Discovery. You should be aware that some features covered in this training may be restricted to BMC Atrium Discovery Enterprise Edition and not available in the Community Edition.

This course contains the following modules

1. ADDMI-01 Why ADDM? (15 mins)
   

   Learn how BMC Atrium Discovery supports planning and tracking progress of data center projects

2. ADDMI-02 ADDM Overview (12 mins)
   

   Learn how BMC Atrium Discovery works

3. ADDMI-08 Dashboards (15 mins) (Download Lab)
   

   Learn how to access and configure different dashboards to suit your reporting needs

4. ADDMI-09 Analysis UI - Reporting (15 mins)
   

   Learn how to access and manipulate built in reports to suit your reporting needs

5. ADDMI-09.5 Analysis UI - Host-Grouping (23 mins)
   

   Learn how to access dependency visualizations to help you better understand relationships between discovered hosts, software and applications

Got a Question?

Visit the Training Feedback Forum if you have a question or feedback relating to the content covered in this training.

Hands On Lab Exercises

Some learning modules have hands on lab exercises to help reinforce your understanding of a topic. To complete these lab exercises you will need a BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 appliance.

For customers and partners licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Training Appliance with pre-populated data is available from the BMC EPD site.

For those currently not licensed to use BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 we recommend you use the BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1 Community Edition. Note that the Community Edition will not include pre-populated data which will mean that some lab exercises will not be supported.

ADDM 8.1 Update Training (16 Minutes)

Target Audience:

Technical, stakeholders and end users who are familiar with Tideway Foundation 7.3 and BMC Atrium Discovery 8.0.

Course Overview

The course provides an understanding of the new features in BMC Atrium Discovery 8.1.

This course contains the following modules

1. ADDMI-22 Query Builder (8 Mins)
   

   Learn about the reporting enhancements that make custom reporting available to all users

2. ADDMI-23 CMDB Sync (6 mins)
   

   Learn about enhancements to export to Atrium CMDB