IT Monitor Server and Interface Class (CBT)
The IT Monitor Server and Interface Class Computer Based Training (CBT) v1.0 course is available now. The course teaches everything you need to know to implement IT Monitor so that you can quickly begin monitoring all of your IT assets. This course includes how to install the IT Monitor server, how to create displays and reports, and how to configure IT Monitor interfaces and tags. This CBT is available now for $500 per user, and includes 13 hours of audio/video instruction, course book, course workbook, CD-ROM or DVD versions, exercise solutions, examples and templates used in the course. Click here to order the computer based training.
This IT Monitor Server CBT course presents all the same syllabus topics as the traditional instructor led training all within a 13 hour CBT module. (Click here to see a detailed description and syllabus of the course.) This CBT could be utilized as a cost-effective substitute for the 5 day in-person course, or for re-training purposes.
PINPOINT NAVIGATION: Moving the slider bar previews the video. Jump directly to any topic.
The course takes the form of a series of short screen demonstrations with voice narration. These are not the small, blurry videos seen on some computer based training but full screen 1024 x 768 resolution recordings. These narrations have been placed in a web browser interface. No installation procedure is required to run the videos from the web menu, although you can choose to automatically add a shortcut to the main menu to your desktop. The user can pause, fast-forward, and rewind the screen video clips.
We estimate it would take a user 4 days to go through all the material, including doing the exercises that are demonstrated.
Users work through the tutorials by first finding a feature on the main menu that they are interested in (for example, "PI Performance Monitor Interface"). This link opens up a second window with details of each video, including its length in minutes and seconds. If the user has access to his IT Monitor server he can easily switch between applications to practice what was demonstrated.
FOCUSED POINTERS: A spotlight follows the cursor during demos to highlight important fields.
The topics are laid out in an easy to navigate menu that provides quick access and navigation between topics. Unlike a videotape, the topics can be done in any order so that you can skip topics that are of no interest to you. As you drag the video slider bar, the screen updates in real time to help you quickly find the spot that presents the entry field, bullet list item, or dialog box you are interested in. Screen annotations have been added to help you follow the demonstrations: a bright yellow spotlight follows the onscreen mouse at all times and multi-colored highlighting of lecture points and the demonstrations accompany the narration.
VIRTUAL WHITEBOARD: Virtual highlighters are used to help explain relationships.
OSIsoft CBTs are licensed for individual users, but unlike many of our other applications, we encourage users to remove the tutorials when they are finished to pass on to the next student. Typically a site with dozens of PI users will only need a few licensed copies that are shared as people make time to use them. The tutorials can also be installed to run on a network server (with the appropriate number of user licenses).
Class Outline
Presentation of the PI System
Overview of the Architecture
PI Tags
Data Flow and Archiving
Basic Management of the PI System
PI System Management Tools
Tag Management
Archive Management
Security Management
Backup Management
PI ProcessBook
PI DataLink
PI Module Database
PI Interfaces
Description
Installing and configuring interfaces
Interface Configuration Utility
(All interface discussions include principles of operation, interface configuration, and tag creation)
PI Ping Interface
PI TCPResponse Interface
PI Performance Monitor Interface
Performance Monitor Tag Builder
PI SNMP Interface
SNMP Tag Builder
PI SNMPTrap Interface
PI NetFlow Interface
Visualization tools
PI PacketCapture Program
PI SysLog Interface
PI Performance Equations
Distributed Architecture for PI Interfaces
Regular Expressions
IT Monitoring Suggestions
System Requirements
The tutorials do not require access to the IT Monitor Server. However, if you have access, you can practice the tutorials by switching between the demonstration and the application.
Hardware Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP or later version
- 166 MHz processor
- 32 MB of RAM
- Windows-compatible sound card and speakers or headphones
Software Requirements (to view the video demonstrations):
- Internet Explorer 5.0+
- Camtasia Player (included on the disk)
Software Requirements (to try the exercises shown in the demonstrations):
- IT Monitor Server v3.4 or higher.
- PI System Management Tools v3.1 or higher.
- PI ProcessBook (v3.0 or higher)
- Microsoft Excel
- PI DataLink (v3.0 or higher)
The files used including the screen video and voice narration remain stored on the CD-ROM and are not installed locally.
What is Included
The tutorials CBT includes:
- Thirteen hours of voice and video lecture and demonstrations that comprise the entire IT Monitor Server Course. You can choose between a 3 disk CD-ROM version or a single DVD-ROM version. Recordings are at 1024 x 768 resolution and 15 frames per second.
- The 550+ page printed course lecture notes consisting of PowerPoint slides and instructor notes.
- The 100 page printed exercise workbook.
- Electronic copies of both of the above documents on the CD and DVD.
- Exercise solutions, examples, and templates used in the course on the CD and DVD.
The workbook is the same workbook we use in the live course.
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