LinuxCBT Moni-Zab Edition

English | 2015 | mp4 | H264 1356x766 | AAC 2 ch | 4 hrs 8 min | 647 MB

eLearning

Course Objective

Intro to Zabbix Monitoring Environment

Introduction - Zabbix - Features

- Discuss features and benefits

- Explain supported protocols

- Discuss polling mechanism

- Explore Zabbix process architecture

- Examine simplicity of deployment

- Identify target Zabbix HOST

- Explore classroom environment

Zabbix Installation

- Identify and obtain packages

- Install Zabbix server for MySQL

- Install Web Front-End

- Explore package footprint

- Identify key configuration files

- Install Zabbix Agent where applicable

- Explore Agent configuration directives

- Setup Agent environment

- Evaluate configuration

Web Front-End

- Ensure dependencies are met

- Install and configure Web Front-End

- Correct problems during installation

- Access web interface

- Update default credentials

- Briefly peruse web front-end environment

- Prepare for general usage

Monitor HOSTs

- Identify targets for monitoring

- Obtain and deploy appropriate agents

- Debug configuration as needed

- Add new HOSTs to Zabbix monitoring environment

- Identify broken dependencies

- Rectify problems as they arise

SELinux Integration

- Debuge CentOS SELinux problems

- Identify AVC errors related to Zabbix

- Propose workarounds

- Implement workaround on SELinux-enabled HOSTs

- Confirm changes have positively impacted the configuration

- Evaluate and discuss findings

Notifications Logic

- Explore defaults

- Invoke service failures

- Debug missing messages | notifications

- Enable message deliveryI

- Discuss applicable message notification components

- Unfail services and debug messages

- Fail services and identify messages

- Contrast scenarios and discuss applicability

Maintenance Window

- Discuss benefits

- Identify configuration interface components

- Define maintenance window with recurring schedule

- Examine notifications delivery response as a result

- Contract maintenance window to impact notifications delivery

- Evaluate system response

- Discuss and explain behavior

DevOps | Operations User Definition

- Discuss benefits of offloading responsibilities

- Define DevOps user with appropriate privileges

- Assign requisite permissions as needed

- Confirm DevOps access to Zabbix

- Alter Super Admin's notification schedule accordingly

- Test message | notification delivery to DevOps

- Evaluate setup

Zabbix Reports Overview

- Discuss available reports

- Identify available reports

- Peruse SLA reports

- Discuss possibilities for bar reports