Zabbix Certified Professional (ZCP)

This 3 day course provides information technology professionals with knowledge and skills. They are necessary to configure and use Zabbix proxy. It also covers distributed monitoring for your network and application monitoring needs. It also discusses advanced Zabbix topics.
Course information
- Products covered: Zabbix 6.0
- Format: Up to 12 students
- Duration: 3 days
- Course requirements: ZCS Certificate or Attendance Certificate
- Recommended skills: Basic experience in Linux operating systems
- Next level: Zabbix Certified Expert
- Previous level: Zabbix Certified Specialist
- Price : 2035 €
Course program
Day 1
Intro
- Zabbix requirements
- Zabbix main components
- Communication between Zabbix components
- Data collection
- Zabbix internal workflow
Zabbix Frontend
- Nginx setup
- Nginx tuning
- Nginx monitoring
- HTTPS setup
Docker images
- Overview
- Deploying Zabbix proxy
High Availability
- Overview
- Server configuration
- Node types
- Agent configuration
- Proxy configuration
- Failover
- Cluster parameters
Zabbix Proxies
- Overview
- Active proxy mode
- Passive proxy mode
- Configuration
- Health monitoring
- Runtime commands
- Throttling
Zabbix agent 2
- Overview
- Buffers
- Main components
- Installation
- Command-line options
- Plugin configuration
- Named sessions
- Specific keys
Zabbix Agent
- Key restriction patterns
- Key restriction rule order
- Key restriction notes
- Remote commands
Encryption
- Overview
- Zabbix options
- DB connection encryption
- TLS Accept / Connect
- Using Certificates
- Using pre-shared keys
- Notes
Frontend scripts
- Overview
- Parameters
Day 2
Database monitoring
- ODBC overview
- Configuration
- Database monitor items
- DSN and connection string
Preprocessing
- Overview
- Internal workflow
- XML path
- JSON path
- Prometheus pattern
- Conversion to JSON
Low-level discovery
- Introduction
- LLD rule properties
- LLD macros
- LLD internal workflow
- LLD prototypes
- LLD filters
- LLD overrides
- LLD using dependent items
- Preprocessing
- Context support in user macros
- built-in LLD keys
- LLD of filesystems
- LLD using SQL
- LLD of SNMP OIDs
SNMP monitoring
- Dynamic indexes
Day 3
Autoregistration
- Overview
- HostMetadata
- HostInterface
- Actions
- Passive checks
- Encryption
Network discovery
- Overview
- Host/service events
- Uptime/Downtime
- Actions
- Notes
JMX monitoring
- Overview
- Zabbix Java gateway
- Zabbix server configuration
- Java application configuration
VMware monitoring
- Overview
- Built-in templates
Low-level discovery
- Host prototypes
VMware monitoring
- Configuration
- Notes
Advanced trigger functions
- Timeshift
- Macro functions
- Event names
- Trend functions
- Baseline functions
- Anomaly detection
- Forecast
- Percentile
Event correlation
- Overview
- Trigger-based correlation
- Global correlation
Zabbix internals
- Caches
- Internal processes
- Data collectors
- Workflow
Database tuning
- MySQL parameters
- Partitioning
Zabbix troubleshooting
- Slow queries
- Debug mode
Zabbix performance
- Recommendations
Discussions
- Q&A session
Course attendance / certificate
- Zabbix 6.0 Certified Professional Exam
- Zabbix 6.0 Certified Professional Certificate