Tag: Network Monitoring

Course content

• Zabbix

• Introduction
• Installing and Configuring Nagios XI
• Overview of Nagios XI Features and Architecture
• Overview of Configuration Management in Nagios
• Using Dashboards
• Monitoring Linux Machines
• Monitoring Windows Machines
• Monitoring Network Devices
• Auto-Discovery
• Scheduling Downtime
• Performance Charts, Graphs and Dashboard
• Alerts, Notifications and Escalations
• Additional Tools
• Generating Reports
• Backing up and Restoring Nagios XI
• Troubleshooting
• Summary and Conclusion

Course Outline

• Performance reporting
• Routers and switches
• Nagios QL
• MySQL DB integration
• Distributed monitoring
• NDOUtils
• NagVis
• BPI
• NRDP/NRDS
• DNX modgearman
• NetFlow
• High availability

Day 1:

• Nagios architecture
• Installing and configuring server components
• Users and Security
• Hosts and HostGroups

Day 2:

• Services and ServiceGroups
• Monitoring Linux servers with nrpe
• Monitoring with the ssh plugin
• Monitoring with the snmp plugin

Day 3:

• Configuring Notifications
• Creating Custom checks
• Graphing and Statistics

Introduction

Overview of Zenoss Features and Architecture

• Real-time monitoring
• Modeling vs. Monitoring

Setting up Zenoss

• Installing, enabling browser access
• Configuring Zenoss Core

Getting Started

• Navigating the User Interface
• Using Zenoss Resource Manager

Monitoring Network Devices

• Working with SNMP, SSH, and WMI
• Time-series analysis of performance and anomalies

Monitoring Network Services

• Monitoring HTTP, POP3, NNTP, SNMP, FTP

Working with Monitoring Templates

• Configuring a monitoring template
• Creating a monitoring template

Monitoring Host Resources

• Monitoring processor and disk usage

Setting Alerts

• Using event management tools
• Creating rule sets, triggers, and on-call calendars
• Discovering network resources
• Detecting changes in network configuration
• Annotating system alerts
• Generating reports

Extending Zennoss

• Extending with ZenPacks
• Working with Nagios plug-in
• Monitoring Windows Systems

Troubleshooting