Leonard's Reflections 3/8

Today was the first day of the IBM Software Technical Conference. To begin the conference, there was a keynote speech by Ms Katie Keane. We had the choice of going to our own tracks after the speech so i chose Performance Visibility for IP Network in Large Enterprise using TNPM for my first track.

In the lecture, we learned about performance management which collects periodic metrics and can be used to detect real time threshold violations. Other information we learned was Simple Network Management Protocol(SNMP), Management Information Base(MIB), Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager (TNPM) and COTS(Commercially-off-the-shelf) Tech Packs.

Our next lecture included topics like Network Visibility, IBM Service Management, Consolidated Operations Management, Tivoli Omnibus and Network Manager and a case study about ONO, a company in Spain.

During our lunch, we met up with some of the IBM conference lecturers who gave us advice about the different tracks. Since i was in Info-communication Technology, i was recommended the Tivoli track which had the most reference to my course of study.

After lunch, there was a case study lecture about an Indonesian Bank IBM had helped to complete a project. For the lecture, we were taught about Master Data, Master Data Management, Party-Centric Model, Rapid Deployment Package and the Indonesian Rule Set. IBM took 6 months to complete the project for the bank, even though they spent almost 2 months just to transfer the new equipment into the data center.

I chose to go to the free labs for my next lesson and tried out the Websphere Technical Exchange lab. After experiencing some difficulty and getting some assistance from a lecturer, i learned how to apply and use the concept of the Box Method and Outline Method.

At the end of the day's conference, we had a briefing by Mr Raymond Wong who taught us about the Smarter Planet vision.

I learned a lot on the first day of the conference and i am looking forward to the next day of learning.