Symantec Management Platform 7.1 Administration (SMP)

This course is for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Symantec Management Platform.

Students must have basic working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and networking concepts, including LANs, network adapter cards, drivers, and operating systems. Students must also be familiar with computer hardware components such as hubs, switches, and routers. Experience using VMware is helpful but not required.

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Install Symantec Management Platform and Symantec Management Agent.
• Use Resource Manager to discover computers and other resources.
• Import user accounts, roles, users, computers, and other resources from Microsoft Active Directory.
• Create, manage, and administer organizational views, filters, policies, and targets.
• Set security on users and groups, and assign privileges and permissions.
• Identify and access common database tables.
• Generate custom scoped reports.
• Manage your environment using sites, site servers, and subnets.
• Design a Notification Server hierarchy.
• Run replication.
• Use tools and utilities to check the stability of the Symantec Management Platform.

The Symantec Management Platform 7.1 Administration course is designed for I.T. specialists tasked with installing, managing, and troubleshooting Symantec Management Platform. This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class covers Symantec Management Platform installation and infrastructure, and how to create and configure key items in the Symantec Management Console, such as tasks, policies, organizational groups, targets, and filters. Students also learn how to run reports and replication, create a hierarchy, configure site servers, find and access data in the database, and apply troubleshooting techniques.