System Monitoring Training in Iowa

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to prepare for the Nagios Certified Administrator exam. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a thorough knowledge of Nagios, including installation, configuration, and administration.
• Use Nagios to monitor networks, servers, and applications.
• Implement advanced monitoring techniques for diverse IT environments, including cloud and virtualized infrastructures.
• Configure alerts, manage notifications and generate reports to ensure proactive network management.
• Take the Nagios Certified Administrator exam with confidence.

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to prepare for the Nagios Certified Professional exam. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a solid foundation in both Nagios XI and Nagios Core, including their architecture and key components.
• Monitor hosts, services, and network components effectively using Nagios.
• Using Nagios for data visualization, dashboards, and reporting.
• Take the Nagios Certified Professional exam with confidence.

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) covers the installation, planning and configuration of Zabbix, and focuses on practical implementation and tooling. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Zabbix for monitoring IT infrastructure.
• Set up and manage hosts, items, triggers, and actions within Zabbix.
• Utilize Zabbix's features for data collection, alerting, and reporting.
• Integrate Zabbix with other tools and platforms for enhanced monitoring and automation.

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to learn how Datadog works in monitoring servers, databases, and cloud-based applications and services. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn and understand how the Datadog monitoring tool works.
• Understand the Datadog core concepts and features.
• Configure Datadog for infrastructure monitoring and account management.
• Use Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and continuous profiling.

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level systems administrators who wish to learn and utilize the advanced features and components of Nagios for IT monitoring. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Nagios architecture, components, and advanced monitoring strategies.
• Implement advanced service monitoring and extend Nagios functionality.
• Explore Nagios add-ons and advanced techniques.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to set up an architecture where everything is logged. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Fluentd.
• Collect logs from large numbers of disparate servers.
• Unify the logging layer within an organization.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• This training covers logging approaches for various types of systems. Please contact us to arrange coverage for specific systems (syslog, Apache, Nginx, IoT, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.).
• To learn more about Fluentd, please visit: https://www.fluentd.org/

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to implement and manage infrastructure monitoring using Nagios.By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Nagios Core and relevant plugins.
• Monitor servers, network devices, services, and applications.
• Configure alerts and performance thresholds.
• Integrate Nagios with databases and third-party tools.
• Set up distributed monitoring and high availability environments.
• Visualize monitoring data using tools such as NagVis and BPI.

This instructor-led, live training in Iowa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to implement, configure, and maintain Nagios Core for real-time infrastructure monitoring.By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Nagios Core and its components.
• Monitor hosts, services, and network resources.
• Configure secure user access and alerting systems.
• Create custom checks and extend Nagios monitoring capabilities.
• Utilize plugins and graphing tools for reporting and analysis.

Nagios XI is enterprise server and network monitoring software. In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up and operate Nagios XI as they step through process of managing Linux and Windows servers in a series of hands-on live-lab exercises. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Nagios XI
• Monitor Windows and Linux machines
• Monitor network devices
• Perform administrating tasks, including backing up, restoring, and scheduling downtime of Nagios XI

Audience

• System administrators

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Netdata is an open-source infrastructure performance monitoring and troubleshooting solution that simplifies real-time data collection of system, hardware, and application metrics. Netdata helps users visualize and store data, set performance issue alerts, and collect thousands of metrics with zero configuration. This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at SysAdmins, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who wish to install, configure, and manage Netdata features to collect and monitor infrastructure metrics. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Collect system and application metrics.
• Visualize data in real-time.
• Monitor performance health.
• Troubleshoot performance issues as they arise.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Learn the business value and product capabilities of Power Platform. Create simple Power Apps, connect data with Common Data Service, build a Power BI Dashboard, automate a process with Power Automate, and build a chatbot with Power Virtual Agents After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the Power Platform components
• Describe Common Data Service, Connectors and AI builder
• Describe cross-cloud scenarios across M365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure and 3rd party services
• Identify benefits and capabilities of Power Platform
• Identify the basic functionality and business value Power Platform components
• Implement simple solutions with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents