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MicroFocus Service Manager - Administration

( Duration: 5 Days )

This MicroFocus Service Manager - Administration training course focuses on the tasks required to deploy a new Service Manager system and the ongoing tasks required to keep the system running efficiently.

By attending MicroFocus Service Manager - Administration workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Describe the Service Manager environment and architecture
  • Install the various components of Service Manager
  • Describe the various implementation options (such as default ports, load balancing, components)
  • Perform tasks and set-up activities that are generally performed prior to moving the system to Production
  • Perform ongoing monitoring, debugging, troubleshooting, and administrative tasks
  • Perform additional administrative tasks related to reporting, surveys, and customizing the Web client
  • Perform optional tasks, such as:
  • Configuring Smart Analytics
  • Managing your entity relationships, running data reference check reports, and generating entity relationship diagrams

  • Have familiarity with Service Manager processes and workflows
  • Have familiarity with Service Manager configuration tools

The MicroFocus Service Manager - Administration class is ideal for:

  • System Administrators and other personnel responsible for the implementation of Service Manager.

COURSE AGENDA

1

Course Overview

2

Introduction to Service Manager

  • Describe the Service Manager environment
  • Summarize how different components of Service Manager interact
  • Identify what you can do in Service Manager
3

Installing Service Manager

  • Describe the Service Manager architecture
  • Locate the Service Manager configuration and log files
  • Install the Service Manager Server
  • Apply a server patch
  • Install the Windows client
  • Install the Web tier
  • Service Manager 9.62 Platform components Upgrade
  • Install the Knowledge Management (KM) Search Engine
  • Configure the KM environment
  • Install the Mobile applications
  • Install the Service Request Catalog (SRC)
  • Install the Smart Analytics Engine
4

System Language

  • List the data types of Service Manager
  • Name the major types of Service Manager variables
  • Identify the role of current file variables in Service Manager applications
  • Identify operators that perform selected system operations
  • Summarize the characteristics of functions
  • Summarize the characteristics of expressions
5

Pre-Production Tasks

  • Set defaults in the System Information record
  • Create a failsafe operator record
  • Disable auto-complete
  • Back up the operators table
  • Load and unload files from the command line
  • Move and switch the sm.log file
  • Configure system parameters
  • Remove background processes
  • Manage agents in the startup record
  • Use the system status record
  • Create named users
  • Describe LDAP integration
  • Enable Mandanten file security
  • Create field help
  • Set up calendar and holiday records
  • Manage tables
  • Fine tune keys and queries
  • Use the Unload Script utility
  • Clean up OOTB data
  • Reset the numbers record
  • Reset counters
  • Configure attachment type and size
  • Test system performance
  • Migrate changes from one system to another
  • Use ITOM Marketplace
6

Ongoing Tasks

  • Monitor log files, for example, sm.log and msglog
  • Debug JavaScript using Log4js
  • Manage the schedule file
  • Monitor background processor activity
  • Remove a user or process, schedule processes, or automatically restart terminated processes
  • Send messages to logged-in users
  • Check servlet utilization
  • Quiesce the system
  • Check and test backups
  • Check system locks
  • Debug a suspended/hung system
  • Check updates to Information Retrieval (IR) files
  • Configure the On Call schedule
  • Monitor email
  • Purge and archive data
  • Import and export data
  • Check RDBMS file size limit
  • Manage views and favorites
  • Check license usage
  • Check for news on the support web site
  • Turn on development auditing and manage audit history
  • Create revisions
  • Manage Query By Example (QBE) lists
  • Monitor server performance statistics
  • Check memory usage
  • Validate time zone records
  • Manage the work schedule and holiday tables
  • Configure the Service Level Agreement/Service Level Objective (SLA/SLO) time zones
  • Renew production and non-production licenses
7

Ongoing Tasks – Reporting, Surveys, and Web Client Configuration

  • Schedule reports
  • Set report and dashboard permissions
  • Categorize reports
  • View report status
  • Configure general report settings
  • Enable the replicated reporting database
  • Enable query cache
  • Update Survey templates and schedule surveys
  • Customize the Web client interface:
    • Change menu icons (and their color)
    • Set the field colors in a list
8

Using the Data Model Utility

  • Describe how time periods and the calendar widget are used
  • List the various email solutions
  • Configure Smart Analytics
    • Configure Smart Analytics: train smart tickets, index Hot Topic Analytics
    • Extend Hot Topics Analytics to other modules
    • Add filters to the Hot Topic Analytics advanced filter
  • Describe the HTML editor and attachments whitelist
  • Enable copy/paste for modules other than KM
  • Use the Data Model utility
9

Tips and Tricks

  • Find the login connection history
  • Find the Service Manager command-line history
  • Find where launch configurations are stored
  • Search and add command shortcuts
  • Examine useful Replication and Deployment (RAD) utilities and routines
10

Enhancements in Latest Release

  • Calculate risks
  • Create a risk factor
  • Create a risk group
  • Navigate the page and set focus
  • Access Toolbar
  • Perform smart Search

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