ZABBIX Training Session: 24 – 28 November 2008

[MariaZ]

We are glad to announce that we are holding a training session on the last week of November, November 24 – 28.

The training programs ZABBIX Certified Specialist training, ZABBIX Distributed Monitoring and ZABBIX Internals have been updated and adjusted to ZABBIX v1.6, and we introduced several changes:
- the Certified Specialist course has been complemented with new topics and new content and become a 3-day training;
- the Distributed Monitoring course has undergone similar changes and become a 2-day training under the new name "ZABBIX for Large Environments";
- the ZABBIX Internals course has been canceled.

The main topics covered by the ZABBIX Certified Specialist training are:
• ZABBIX Architecture
• Installation of ZABBIX Server, Proxy and Agent
• Configuration of ZABBIX
• ZABBIX GUI
• ZABBIX definitions
• Hosts, items, triggers, actions, events
• Graphs, screens, maps, slide shows
• Templates, pie charts, users’ rights
• Escalations and repeated notifications
• How to deal with IPv6
• Monitoring of IPMI devices
• Proxy process
• Creating smart triggers and actions
• Maintenance mode
• Distributed monitoring and WEB monitoring
• Monitoring of log files and Windows event logs
• Extending ZABBIX
• Performance tuning

The main topics covered by the ZABBIX for Large Environments course are:
• Different approaches to monitoring of large environments
• Overview of ZABBIX distributed monitoring
• Overview of ZABBIX Proxy process
• Distributed monitoring vs. Proxy based vs. Standalone server
• Hardware requirements for all components
• Basic rules to keep everything under control
• Configuration of all ZABBIX components for highest performance
• Performance tuning
• Troubleshooting
• Maintenance issues of large scale setup
• Tuning of MySQL parameters
• High availability setup

All ZABBIX users wishing to participate are welcome to email [email protected] for more details.

See you in Riga!