System Monitoring Training Courses

This instructor-led, live training in the UK (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to prepare for the Nagios Certified Administrator exam. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a thorough knowledge of Nagios, including installation, configuration, and administration.
• Use Nagios to monitor networks, servers, and applications.
• Implement advanced monitoring techniques for diverse IT environments, including cloud and virtualized infrastructures.
• Configure alerts, manage notifications and generate reports to ensure proactive network management.
• Take the Nagios Certified Administrator exam with confidence.

This instructor-led, live training in the UK (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to prepare for the Nagios Certified Professional exam. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a solid foundation in both Nagios XI and Nagios Core, including their architecture and key components.
• Monitor hosts, services, and network components effectively using Nagios.
• Using Nagios for data visualization, dashboards, and reporting.
• Take the Nagios Certified Professional exam with confidence.

This instructor-led, live training in the UK (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to learn how Datadog works in monitoring servers, databases, and cloud-based applications and services. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn and understand how the Datadog monitoring tool works.
• Understand the Datadog core concepts and features.
• Configure Datadog for infrastructure monitoring and account management.
• Use Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and continuous profiling.

This instructor-led, live training in the UK (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level systems administrators who wish to learn and utilize the advanced features and components of Nagios for IT monitoring. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Nagios architecture, components, and advanced monitoring strategies.
• Implement advanced service monitoring and extend Nagios functionality.
• Explore Nagios add-ons and advanced techniques.

Netdata is an open-source infrastructure performance monitoring and troubleshooting solution that simplifies real-time data collection of system, hardware, and application metrics. Netdata helps users visualize and store data, set performance issue alerts, and collect thousands of metrics with zero configuration. This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at SysAdmins, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who wish to install, configure, and manage Netdata features to collect and monitor infrastructure metrics. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Collect system and application metrics.
• Visualize data in real-time.
• Monitor performance health.
• Troubleshoot performance issues as they arise.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in the UK (online or onsite) is aimed at admins who wish to use Zenoss to monitor physical and virtual networks in the cloud and on-premise. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Zenoss.
• Understand Zenoss's real-time model for monitoring a network.
• Perform basic administrative tasks in Zenoss.
• Monitor devices, events, and service.
• Ensure top application performance.

The 5-day course demonstrates through hands-on practice the fundamentals of Nagios.

This course covers the installation, planning and configuration of Nagios Core The level of this course is Intermediate

Nagios XI is enterprise server and network monitoring software. In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up and operate Nagios XI as they step through process of managing Linux and Windows servers in a series of hands-on live-lab exercises. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Nagios XI
• Monitor Windows and Linux machines
• Monitor network devices
• Perform administrating tasks, including backing up, restoring, and scheduling downtime of Nagios XI

Audience

• System administrators

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to set up an architecture where everything is logged. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Fluentd.
• Collect logs from large numbers of disparate servers.
• Unify the logging layer within an organization.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• This training covers logging approaches for various types of systems. Please contact us to arrange coverage for specific systems (syslog, Apache, Nginx, IoT, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.).
• To learn more about Fluentd, please visit: https://www.fluentd.org/

This course focuses on practical implementation and tooling. This course covers the installation, planning and configuration of Zabbix

Munin is an open-source monitoring tool that helps system administrators monitor resources such as servers, workstations, networks, SANs, applications, network devices, etc. It shows resource trends and provides insights into questions such as "what just happened to kill our performance?" It includes visualization tools and is available on various flavors of Linux and FreeBSD.

Format of the Course

• Heavy emphasis on hands-on practice. Most of the concepts are learned through samples, exercises and hands-on development.

This instructor-led, live training in the UK (online or onsite) is aimed at devops engineers who wish to create monitoring systems for multi-cloud infrastructures. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Monitor an enterprise from any cloud.
• Use auto-scaling and real-time visibility to create advanced monitoring systems.
• Authenticate a monitoring system with the Sensu API.
• Share programmed monitoring workflows amongst team members.