Overview
This course focuses on practical implementation and tooling. This course covers the installation, planning and configuration of Zabbix
Requirements
Theoretical understanding of DevOps. Good understanding of Agile methodologies.
Course Outline
Installation and Configuration
- Zabbix architecture
- Installation: Server, WEB interface and agent
- Initial configuration
- Zabbix definitions
- WEB interface overview
Data Collection and Monitoring
- Configuration management by using templates
- Agent-less monitoring
- Data collection – hosts, Zabbix agent checks
- Data visualization – simple graphs, overview
- Problem detection – triggers, less sensitive triggers, dependencies
- Data collection – aggregate and calculated checks
- Data visualization – custom graphs
Events and Alerts
- Events
- Notifications and escalations – media types, actions, operations
Zabbix Administration and Monitoring
- Automatic recovery by using remote commands
- Host and host group level maintenance
- Zabbix Administration – working time, housekeeper, authentication, front-end scripts
- Managing permissions – users and user groups, audit
- Automatic discovery – network discovery, active agent auto-registration
- Command line utilities: zabbix_get, zabbix_sender
Maintenance
- Proxy overview
- Maintenance and operations – best practices, DB sizing, upgrades