Spring 2020
Course Description
Define optimization and monitoring techniques for enterprise networks and applications. Analyze deployment, implementation and configuration for availability, capacity, performance, security, reporting, storage, alerts, recovery, backup, and archival. Demonstrate optimization and monitoring by implementation techniques. Prereq: NTI 300 and NTI 310, each with a 2.0 or higher; or Instructor's permission.
Course Objectives
Introduction to event based monitoring
Introduction to service and network trending
Introduction to log trending and dependency correlation
Introduction to automated event response
Students will learn to assign severity and impact to every monitored service and prioritize their incident response accordingly
Students will learn to define an escalation path for every critical service running in their environment
Students will learn to diagram service and network dependancies
Students will learn to reproduce intermittent service issues
Students will learn to build and configure monitoring, trending, log and configuration management servers.
Reinforcement and implementation of skills acquired in NTI300 and NTI310 to document and automate all changes and deployments as well as learning to correlate changes with service disruptions
Course Texts
Nagios: 2nd Edition
Nagios Textbook
ISBN-13: 978-1593271794
ISBN-10: 1593271794
Cacti 0.8
Cacti 0.8 Textbook
ISBN-13: 978-1847195968
ISBN-10: 1847195962