Automated Monitoring with Zabbix Training Course

Introduction

Deployment and Setup

• Understanding Zabbix architecture
• Deployment: Server, Web interface, and agents
• Initial setup configuration
• Key Zabbix terminology
• Overview of the Web interface

Data Acquisition and Oversight

• Configuration management through the use of templates
• Agent-less monitoring techniques
• Data acquisition via hosts and Zabbix agent checks
• Data presentation through simple graphs and overview dashboards
• Issue identification using triggers, threshold adjustments, and dependencies
• Advanced data acquisition using aggregate and calculated checks
• Advanced data presentation with custom graphs

Events and Notifications

• Managing events
• Notification and escalation workflows: media types, actions, and operations

Zabbix Governance and Oversight

• Automated recovery using remote commands
• Maintenance at the host and host group levels
• Zabbix governance: working hours, housekeeper settings, authentication, and front-end scripts
• Permission management for users and groups, including audit trails
• Automated discovery: network discovery and active agent auto-registration
• Command-line utilities: zabbix_get and zabbix_sender

Upkeep

• Overview of Proxies
• Maintenance and operations: best practices, database sizing, and upgrade procedures

Recap and Future Steps