Nagios XI Administration Training Course

  • 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

Nagios Core Training Course

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

Monitoring with Grafana Training Course

1. Introduction to system monitoring and Grafana

  • Concepts of telemetry
  • Push- and pull-based telemetry
  • Sampling, data retention and downsampling
  • Grafana and datasources

2. Details of Grafana

  • Grafana installation
  • Accessing Grafana
  • Creating first dashboard
  • Dashboards, rows and panels
  • Timerange selector
  • Relative time and Time shift

3. Data sources

  • Prometheus architecture
  • Installing Prometheus
  • Accessing Prometheus web interface
  • Installing node_exporter
  • Getting metrics
  • Querying Prometheus
  • Scraping metrics to Prometheus
  • Graphite architecture
  • Installing Graphite
  • Feeding Graphite
  • Adding data sources to Grafana

4. Deep dive into Grafana panels

  • Graph
  • Singlestat
  • Gauge
  • Bargauge
  • Heatmap
  • Textpanel
  • Tablepanel
  • Dashboard list
  • Plugin panels
  • Manipulating panels

5. Annotations and alerting

  • Annotations
  • Alerts
  • Alert list panel
  • E-mail and other ways of alert notifications

6. Explore and variables

  • Explore functionality
  • Templating with variables
  • Dynamic panels based on variables

7. Loki – Grafana log aggregation system

  • Loki overview
  • Installation
  • Exploring logs

8. Grafana administration

  • Organizing Grafana
  • Migrating to MySQL
  • High Availability in Grafana
  • Running Grafana behind reverse proxy
  • Securing Grafana with SSL certificate
  • Troubleshooting Grafana