Conference Workshops

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The new REST API of Checkmk opens up new opportunities for automating your monitoring. Automation can make your life easier and provides endless options. In this workshop, you will learn what is possible with the new REST API and how to get things done more quickly. Configure your monitoring, execute it and get status information. We will dive deeper into how to integrate Checkmk with multiple data sources for automation. We will also look into using the REST API with deployment tools. To sum up, this workshop will introduce the concepts behind the API and teach you how to automate things yourself through practical examples.

Prerequisites: Programming experience and a good understanding of Checkmk.

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Monitoring is at the heart of your IT. Thus, it needs to be secure. Security expert Ralf Spenneberg will show how you secure your monitoring. Checkmk provides all the tools to enable enterprise-grade security. Sometimes the options are hidden, not enabled or need configuration. In this workshop, Ralf will discuss the Checkmk architecture in the context of security and will explain and demonstrate the configuration of a secure Checkmk installation. The best security practices concerning the Checkmk agent connection, distributed configuration, access via SNMP and special agents, SSL/TLS connections to VMware and LDAP, the certificate store and the password store will be covered in this workshop. There will also be time to discuss specific questions you might face in your own setup.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge about Checkmk.
 

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The new REST API of Checkmk opens up new opportunities for automating your monitoring. Automation can make your life easier and provides endless options. In this workshop, you will learn what is possible with the new REST API and how to get things done more quickly. Configure your monitoring, execute it and get status information. We will dive deeper into how to integrate Checkmk with multiple data sources for automation. We will also look into using the REST API with deployment tools. To sum up, this workshop will introduce the concepts behind the API and teach you how to automate things yourself through practical examples.

Prerequisites: Programming experience and a good understanding of Checkmk.

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This workshop will provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of the best practices for Linux and Windows monitoring. Attendees should have some basic knowledge about Checkmk, Linux and Windows before attending this workshop. The following will be covered in this half-day session:

• the best use of Agent Bakery to deploy agents on both operating systems using rules for each,
• examples for efficient file monitoring,
• Logwatch monitoring, and
• services/processes monitoring.

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge about Checkmk, Linux, Windows.

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In addition to the basics of setting up Checkmk and the test clients of the Robot Framework, Simon will show you everything you need to know about creating application tests in live coding sessions. Especially image recognition methods for old legacy applications will be highlighted. For web testing, you will get to know the “BrowserLibrary,” which is the successor of the proven Selenium library. At the end of the workshop, you will have a solid basic knowledge of Robot Framework syntax, creating XPath and CSS selectors and advanced topics like debugging, encrypting sensitive data, version control, etc.
All developed code examples will be made available to the participants afterward so that they can implement them on their own after the course.

Prerequisites: Medium or advanced knowledge of Checkmk and practical experience. Interest in end-to-end-monitoring/synthetic monitoring.
 

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One of the best features of Checkmk is its extensibility via check plug-ins and local checks. Both are powerful methods to monitor devices and applications which are not covered by the extensive built-in plug-in library. This workshop will teach you how to write your own simple plug-ins.

Prerequisites: Good understanding of Python programming and Checkmk.

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Have you already written your own check plug-ins and want to dive deeper into this topic? Learn from our developer about how we write check plug-ins and ask all the questions that ever came to your mind concerning this topic. In total, we will go into the details of the Check API, walk through the migration of plug-ins to the modern Check API introduced with Checkmk 2.0, and also learn how to write GUI extensions. This way, your plug-ins can be configured properly, and their output can be visualized with Perf-O-Meters. In addition, you will learn when and how to write special agents.

Prerequisites: Experience in developing Checkmk plug-ins, good Python knowledge.