Zabbix Certified Specialist (ZCS)

You’ll learn how to deploy, configure, and maintain a Zabbix instance from scratch. You’ll also obtain practical knowledge required for configuring monitoring endpoints, learn a variety of metric collection and problem detection techniques, and become familiar with a variety of monitoring concepts.

Course information

  • Products covered: Zabbix 6.0
  • Format: Up to 12 students
  • Duration: 5 days
  • Course requirements: None
  • Recommended skills: Basic experience in Linux operating systems
  • Next level: Zabbix Certified Professional Level 3
  • Previous level: Zabbix Certified User Level 1
  • Price : 2145 €
  • Price Combi : ZCS + ZCP 3762 €

Course program

Day 1

Intro

  • Functionality overview
  • Key Principles of Development
  • Important decisions
  • About Zabbix LLC
  • Zabbix licensing model and commercial services

Architecture

  • Zabbix components
  • Zabbix internal architecture
  • Zabbix proxy overview
  • Data flow

Preparations

  • Network time protocol, Timezone, Firewall, SELinux

Installation

  • Getting Zabbix
  • Zabbix requirements
  • Zabbix database installation
  • Installing Zabbix server from packages
  • Installing Zabbix frontend from packages

Zabbix interface

  • Interface overview
  • User types and permissions
  • Using filters

User profile

  • General settings
  • Language, time zone and themes
  • User media
  • Messaging

Definitions

  • List of terms used in Zabbix
  • Items and Triggers
  • Triggers, Events and Actions
  • Macros and Tags

Configuration

  • Host groups, Nested Host groups
  • Working with host groups
  • Assigning permissions
  • Hosts
  • Host properties and entities
  • Host interfaces
  • Host interface status colors
  • Host interface availability

Data Collection

  • Item types
  • Item keys
  • Item data types
  • History and Trends
  • Timeout
  • Simple checks
  • ICMP Checks

Day 2

Zabbix Agent Intro

  • Installation using packages
  • Zabbix agent 2 overview
  • Zabbix agent checks
  • Agent on Linux
  • Command line options
  • Agent on Windows
  • Passive checks
  • Active checks
  • Troubleshooting
  • User parameters

Command-Line

  • utilities: zabbix_get

Human readable data

  • Item units
  • Value maps

Update intervals

  • Overview
  • Flexible and Scheduling
  • Forcible check

Preprocessing

  • Overview
  • Error handling
  • Simple change and change per second
  • Using regular expressions
  • Discard unchanged values

Data Collection

  • Not supported items
  • Item testing

Problem detection

  • Triggers
  • Dynamic problem names
  • Operational data
  • Trigger expressions and functions
  • Recovery expression
  • Closing and acknowledging problems
  • Problem displaying options
  • Time based functions
  • Trigger dependencies

Day 3

Templates

  • Template properties
  • Template linking
  • Multiple template levels
  • Working with templates

Mass update

  • Items
  • Templates and hosts

Data collection

  • Zabbix sender
  • SSH checks
  • Telnet checks

Dependent items

  • Definition
  • Master item setup
  • Dependent item setup
  • Multiple dependency levels
  • Benefits

Data collection

  • SNMP monitoring
  • SNMP interfaces
  • SNMP OIDs and MIBs
  • SNMP command-line utilities
  • SNMP troubleshooting
  • SNMP traps
  • IPMI monitoring
  • Calculated checks
  • Data aggregation
  • Log file monitoring overview
  • Log file monitoring items
  • Log monitoring details
  • HTTP agent
  • HTTP authentication parameters
  • Web scenarios
  • Web scenario steps

Day 4

Automation

  • Autoregistration overview
  • Network discovery overview

Inventory

  • Overview
  • Inventory modes
  • Data collection

Notifications

  • Media types
  • Message templates
  • User media setup

Actions

  • Functionality
  • Conditions
  • Operations and steps
  • Recovery and update operations
  • Escalations
  • Troubleshooting
  • Internal actions

IT Services

  • Overview
  • Problem and service tags
  • SLA and service actions

Maintenance

  • Functionality
  • Maintenance periods
  • Using tags in maintenance
  • Pause operations during maintenance

Low-level discovery

  • Overview
  • Workflow

User groups

  • Overview
  • Assigning permissions

Users

  • Management
  • Password requirement settings
  • Permission system

User roles

  • Overview

Configuration

  • Import and Export

Audit

  • Overview

Day 5

Configuratioin

  • Real time data export

Data visualization

  • Custom graphs
  • Dynamic graph names
  • Network maps
  • Dashboards
  • Dashboard widgets

Reporting

  • Reporting services overview
  • Components and installation

Administration

  • General settings
  • Housekeeping settings
  • Global regular expressions

Performance

  • Health dashboard
  • Data collectors
  • Internal processes
  • Internal caches
  • Zabbix Queue

Zabbix Releases

  • LTS, major and minor versions
  • Upgrade and compatibility

Discussions

  • Q&A session

Course attendance certificate

  • Zabbix 6.0 Certified Specialist Exam
  • Zabbix 6.0 Certified Specialist Certificate