Duration
2.5 days
Overview
This training course is for those who want a foundation of IBM InfoSphere BigInsights. It will give you an overview of IBM's Big Data strategy as well as a more detailed information on Apache Hadoop. It presents concepts required by a system administrator to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System and concepts of MapReduce that are required by a developer. It gives an introduction to the scheduling capabilities of Hadoop and how to use Oozie to control workflows and use Flume to load data into HDFS.
Curriculum relationship:
- Programming for InfoSphere Streams V3 with SPL (DW720)
- InfoSphere Streams Administration (DW730)
- IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Analytics for Business Analysts (DW640)
- IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Analytics for Programmer (DW650)
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course. However, knowledge of Linux would be beneficial.
Audience
This intermediate training course is for those who want a foundation of IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and is designed for system administrators and developers.
Skills Taught
- Describe functions and features of InfoSphere BigInsights
- List the capabilities of Hadoop and HDFS
- Administer HDFS
- Describe the use of MapReduce
- Setup a Hadoop cluster
- Manage job execution
- Explain the Oozie workflows
- Describe some scenarios for loading data into HDFS
Day 1
- Exercise 1 - Installing BigInsights
- Exercise 2- Exploring Apache Hadoop
Day 2
- Exercise 3 - BigInsights Web Console
- Exercise 4 - MapReduce
- Exercise 5 - Hadoop Configuration
Day 3
- Exercise 6 - Scheduling with Oozie
- Exercise 6 - Using Flume for Data Loading
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.