Lead IT
Master IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Cover all the bases of monitoring IT infrastructure with your Centreon solution
Description: Operating Centreon: Discovering, configuring & operating Centreon in the WebUI
Objective: Learn how to use the Centreon monitoring solution efficiently from alert processing to metrology, including creating and customizing operational dashboards.
Overview
What will be covered
- Navigate through the Centreon interface
- Understand and distinguish the different configuration objects and their relationships
- Display alerts and problems on one or more given scopes
- Implement actions to address problems
- Create custom dashboards to address a defined one or more defined parameters
Who should take it
- Monitoring technicians
- Operators
- Administrators (beginners)
- Any final user involved in the basic’s operations in Centreon platform
Technical Requirement for learners
- 64-bit client workstation with HTTP/HTPPS
- Internet access & SSH PuTTY client
How you will learn
- 100% eLearning: 4hours + 2hours of practical work (using a fully equipped virtual Centreon platform, tutorials, quizzes) coupled with a dedicated coach
Registration
- 100% eLearning: Fill in the contact form to request a quote
Program Details
General introduction
- Introduction to monitoring
- Centreon: history and description
- Centreon concepts
First connection and discovery of the interface
- General organization of the interface
- Monitoring statistics banner
- Resources status and details panels
- Searching and filtering
- Actions on events
- Performance information
- Event logs
- Dashboards and custom views
The objects and concepts of the Resource Status page
- Hosts and host groups
- Services and service groups
- Meta services
- Status and states
- Scheduling
Centreon Operations
- Best practices
- Acknowledgement
- Downtimes
- Recurrent Downtimes
- Forced check
- Add a comment
Final MCQ
- To validate understanding and skill acquisition
Practical work
- Creating a custom view and adding widgets
- Applying a downtime
- Applying an ackowledgement
- Exporting a graph and using the event log view
- Simulation of opening a ticket via the open ticket widget and the mail provider
Description: Configuring Centreon: creating and deploying your monitoring platform
Objective: Learn how to configure your Centreon platform – from implementing objects using templates to managing notifications and the command line.
Overview
What will be covered
- Deploy end-to-end monitoring, object configuration, discovery module, resource grouping and categorization
- Use, create and configure monitoring templates
- Understand and configure alarm notifications: trigger thresholds, user parameters, use of escalations and dependencies
- Understand the internal functioning of Centreon and its components
- Use and configure the monitoring directly at the command line: CLAPI, log files
Who should take it
- Monitoring administrators
- Production engineers
- System/Network administrators
- Any final user involved in the Centreon platform configuration mastering
Technical Requirement for learners
- 64-bit client workstation with HTTP/HTPPS
- Internet access & SSH PuTTY client
How you will learn
- 100% eLearning: 8hours + 4hours of practical work (using a fully equipped virtual Centreon platform, tutorials, quizzes) coupled with a dedicated coach
- Blended Learning: 8 hours of e-Learning + 2 days with a Centreon Expert INTRA
Registration
- 100% eLearning: Fill in the contact form to request a quote
- Blended Learning: Contact us for the dates of the next sessions
Program Details
General introduction
- Course and context
- A Reminder of operators training course
- A reminder of monitoring concepts
Monitoring templates
- Templates
- Contact templates
- Host templates
- Service templates
- Inheritance
- EPP
- Examples
- Custom macros
Auto-discovery module
- Introduction
- Host discovery
- Service discovery
Monitoring configuration
- Time periods
- Contacts
- Macros
- Commands
- Hosts
- Services
Organizing your monitoring
- Groups
- Categories
- How to organize your monitoring
- User management: ACL
Notification Management
- Concepts
- Notifications
- Escalation concept
- Dependencies
- Examples
Introduction to Centreon collect
- Poller concept
- Engine/Broker concept
Command line and Clapi
- Testing your command line
- EPP update
- CLAPI
- Centreon and the logs
Final MCQ
- To validate understanding and skill acquisition
Practical work
- Add a contact and create a time period
- Add a new host and create a service manually
- Deploy monitoring using CLAPI
- Create a template from scratch
- Limit WebUI to users
- Alert users via notifications
Next Sessions – Blended Learning
Pre-requisite: eLearning program to be completed before the On-site course.
Contact us for the dates of the next sessions
Description: Administrating Centreon: administrating and maintaining your monitoring platform
Objective: Learn how to build and manage your monitoring solution with Centreon best practices: from the architecture to troubleshooting common issues to optimization and backup.
Overview
What will be covered
- Define and understand the different Centreon architectures and the interactions between its software components
- Install Centreon IT Edition using LVM partitioning
- Optimize and secure your platform
- Backup and restore your data
- Troubleshoot common problems
Who should take it
- Monitoring administrators
- Production engineers
- System/Network administrators
- Any final user involved in the Centreon platform configuration mastering
Technical Requirement for learners
- 64-bit client workstation with HTTP/HTPPS
- Internet access & SSH PuTTY client
How you will learn
Blended Learning: 8 hours of e-Learning + 2 days with a Centreon Expert INTRA
Registration
Blended Learning: Contact us for the dates of the next sessions
Program Details
General introduction
- Background and context
Centreon Architecture
- Introduction
- GUI: Centreon Web: Apache and PHP
- Monitoring engine: Centreon Engine
- Centreon Broker
- Centreon Gorgone
- Functional architecture
Installation: Best practices and solutions, partitioning
- Introduction
- Installation by ISO
- Installation by RPM
Deploy a poller
- Requirements
- Deployment
- Post-installation checks
- TLS Broker
Best practices: Poller maintainability, sizing and plugins
- System commands
- Monitoring of processes with Plugin-Packs
- Centreon key indicators
- Engine optimization
Update and upgrade: points of attention
- Introduction
- Upgrading
- Updating
Security: HTTPS and Best practices
- Introduction
- Setting up HTTPS
Advanced configuration
- Introduction
- Reminders
- One-peer retention: reversed broker flows
- Centreon Pull
- Centreon Judge
Data backup and restore
- Introduction
- Backup with Mysqldump
- Backup with LVMsnacpshot
- Centreon Judge
Troubleshooting and tooltips
- My poller doesn’t work
- My actions on my objects do not apply
- I have a problem with my central server
Final MCQ
- To validate understanding and skill acquisition
Next Sessions – Blended Learning
Pre-requisite: eLearning program to be completed before the On-site course.
Contact us for the dates of the next sessions
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