System Monitoring with Checkmk – Part 2: Advanced Topics [German]

Five-day training in advanced Checkmk topics

Have you attended our first course System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 1: Basics already, or have comparable knowledge through practical experience?

Then the second part of our Checkmk training is just right for you: Here you will learn about other important Checkmk modules, such as the Event Console, BI (Business Intelligence), the alert handler, reporting and the availability calculation. We also deepen topics from the first part: With distributed monitoring, we show you how alerting, Inventory and event processing work in a distributed environment. Last but not least, you will learn important internal information from Checkmk, which offer you new possibilities in daily practice -
especially on the command line.

This course picks up where our basic course System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 1: Basics left off.

Course content

Advanced site administration

omd diff,
Backup with omd backup and omd restore

Checkmk on the command line

Working with the cmk command
Overview of the file system – what is stored where
Editing config files by hand
Store config files in a git repository
Reading log files
Livestatus queries

Advanced features of Checkmk

Simulating complex environments on a test system
Monitoring clusters
Administration with the REST API
Dynamic configuration

The Checkmk Micro Core

Architecture and advantages of the CMC

The Managed Service Edition

Advantages of the CME

Notifications, part 2

Bulknotifications
Synchronous notifications via SMTP
Writing custom notification scripts

BI – Business Intelligence

Representing business processes
BI in distributed monitoring
Turning BI aggregations into 'normal' checks

The Event Console

Difference between states and events
Structure and features of event rules
Automatic and manual triggering of actions

Alert Handler

Automatic execution of actions in the event of service problems

Reporting

Using instant reports
Creating custom reports
Availability evaluation with Checkmk

HW-/SW-Inventory

Activation
Additional data with agent plugin
Export inventory data

Distributed monitoring, part 2

The livestatus proxy daemon
Event Console, notifications and inventory in a distributed setup
Encryption

User management via LDAP

Connecting Active Directory and OpenLDAP
Mapping LDAP groups to contact groups and roles
LDAP and distributed monitoring

The metric system, part 2

Creating custom graphs
Tuning and converting
Forecast graphs

Extending Checkmk

Usage of Checkmk packages (MKPs)
Create MKPs
MKPs and distributed monitoring
Local checks, MRPE

NagVis

Introduction to NagVis
Creating maps

Details

Language: German

Length: 5 days

Minimum no. of attendees: 3

Target audience: Checkmk Administrators

Requirements: Knowledge from part 1 or comparable Basics knowledge of the Linux command line

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