Zabbix Certified Professional

Zabbix Certified Professional (ZCP)

Unlock the secrets to automating your monitoring workflows and scaling your Zabbix instance across a distributed infrastructure, while learning how to utilize advanced techniques to get the most out of Zabbix.

Acquired skills and knowledge

  • Install and configure a Zabbix instance from scratch, quickly and securely
  • Encrypt communication between Zabbix components using PSK and certificate encryption
  • Implement disaster recovery with Zabbix server nodes deployed in high availability mode
  • Implement disaster recovery using multiple Zabbix servers in high availability mode
  • Scale and distribute your Zabbix environment by deploying Zabbix proxies
  • Take full advantage of the features in Zabbix agent 2
  • Monitor any database with an ODBC (Open database connectivity) driver (e.g. MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
  • Extract metrics from structured JSON/XML documents
  • Monitor prometheus exporter endpoints
  • Optimize your data collection workflows using Zabbix bulk metric collection features
  • Automatically find and monitor database, system and SNMP resources using Zabbix discoveries (low-level discovery)
  • Autoregistration for monitoring endpoints in Zabbix
  • Monitor Java applications using Zabbix
  • Automatically discover VMWare resources, such as VMs, datastores and hypervisors using Zabbix
  • Dynamically detect anomalies in metrics and react accordingly
  • Analyze trends and forecasts of metrics
  • Find core causes of problems with correlation functionality in Zabbix
  • Optimize the Zabbix database backend for performance
  • Troubleshoot Zabbix errors and ensure reliable operation

Certificates

  • Course attendance certificate
  • Zabbix 7.0 Certified Professional certificate (after passing the exam)

Information

Level: 3
Duration: 3 days
Prerequisites: ZCS

Events

  • Feb 26, 2024 – Feb 28, 2024
  • Apr 17, 2024 – Apr 19, 2024
  • Jun 24, 2024 – Jun 26, 2024
  • Sep 9, 2024 – Sep 11, 2024
  • Oct 28, 2024 – Oct 30, 2024
  • Dec 9, 2024 – Dec 11, 2024
2,150.00 € (excl. VAT)

Training program

  • Introduction: Zabbix requirements
  • Introduction: Zabbix main components
  • Introduction: Communication between Zabbix components
  • Introduction: Data collection
  • Introduction: Zabbix internal workflow
  • Zabbix frontend: Nginx setup
  • Zabbix frontend: Nginx tuning
  • Zabbix frontend: Nginx monitoring
  • Zabbix frontend: HTTPS setup
  • Docker images: Overview
  • Docker images: Deploying Zabbix proxy
  • High availability: Overview
  • High availability: Server configuration
  • High availability: Node types
  • High availability: Agent configuration
  • High availability: Proxy configuration
  • High availability: Failover
  • High availability: Cluster parameters
  • Zabbix proxies: Overview
  • Zabbix proxies: Active proxy mode
  • Zabbix proxies: Passive proxy mode
  • Zabbix proxies: Configuration
  • Zabbix proxies: Health monitoring
  • Zabbix proxies: Runtime commands
  • Zabbix proxies: Throttling
  • Zabbix agent 2: Overview
  • Zabbix agent 2: Buffers
  • Zabbix agent 2: Main components
  • Zabbix agent 2: Installation
  • Zabbix agent 2: Command-line options
  • Zabbix agent 2: Plugin configuration
  • Zabbix agent 2: Named sessions
  • Zabbix agent 2: Specific keys
  • Zabbix agent: Key restriction patterns
  • Zabbix agent: Key restriction rule order
  • Zabbix agent: Key restriction notes
  • Zabbix agent: Remote commands
  • Encryption: Overview
  • Encryption: Zabbix options
  • Encryption: DB connection encryption
  • Encryption: TLS Accept / Connect
  • Encryption: Using Certificates
  • Encryption: Using pre-shared keys
  • Encryption: Notes
  • Frontend scripts: Overview
  • Frontend scripts: Parameters

  • Database monitoring: ODBC overview
  • Database monitoring: Configuration
  • Database monitoring: Database monitor items
  • Database monitoring: DSN and connection string
  • Preprocessing: Overview
  • Preprocessing: Internal workflow
  • Preprocessing: XML path
  • Preprocessing: JSON path
  • Preprocessing: Prometheus pattern
  • Preprocessing: Conversion to JSON
  • Low-level discovery: Introduction
  • Low-level discovery: LLD rule properties
  • Low-level discovery: LLD macros
  • Low-level discovery: LLD internal workflow
  • Low-level discovery: LLD prototypes
  • Low-level discovery: LLD filters
  • Low-level discovery: LLD overrides
  • Low-level discovery: LLD using dependent items
  • Low-level discovery: Preprocessing
  • Low-level discovery: Context support in user macros
  • Low-level discovery: built-in LLD keys
  • Low-level discovery: LLD of filesystems
  • Low-level discovery: LLD using SQL
  • Low-level discovery: LLD of SNMP OIDs
  • SNMP monitoring: Dynamic indexes

  • Autoregistration: Overview
  • Autoregistration: HostMetadata
  • Autoregistration: HostInterface
  • Autoregistration: Actions
  • Autoregistration: Passive checks
  • Autoregistration: Encryption
  • Network discovery: Overview
  • Network discovery: Host/service events
  • Network discovery: Uptime/Downtime
  • Network discovery: Actions
  • Network discovery: Notes
  • JMX monitoring: Overview
  • JMX monitoring: Zabbix Java gateway
  • JMX monitoring: Zabbix server configuration
  • JMX monitoring: Java application configuration
  • VMware monitoring: Overview
  • VMware monitoring: Built-in templates
  • Low-level discovery: Host prototypes
  • VMware monitoring: Configuration
  • VMware monitoring: Notes
  • Advanced trigger functions: Timeshift
  • Advanced trigger functions: Macro functions
  • Advanced trigger functions: Event names
  • Advanced trigger functions: Trend functions
  • Advanced trigger functions: Baseline functions
  • Advanced trigger functions: Anomaly detection
  • Advanced trigger functions: Forecast
  • Advanced trigger functions: Percentile
  • Event correlation: Overview
  • Event correlation: Trigger-based correlation
  • Event correlation: Global correlation
  • Zabbix internals: Caches
  • Zabbix internals: Internal processes
  • Zabbix internals: Data collectors
  • Zabbix internals: Workflow
  • Database tuning: MySQL parameters
  • Database tuning: Partitioning
  • Zabbix troubleshooting: Slow queries
  • Zabbix troubleshooting: Debug mode
  • Zabbix performance: Recommendations
  • Discussions: Q&A session
  • Course attendance certificate
  • Zabbix 6.0 Certified Professional Exam
  • Zabbix 6.0 Certified Professional Certificate