Checkmk

Checkmk

1. Beginners guide

A beginner’s guide to Checkmk

2. Installation

Basic information on the installation of Checkmk
Installation on Red Hat and CentOS
Installation on SLES
Installation on Debian and Ubuntu
Installation of a virtual appliance
Installation as a Docker-Container
Checkmk Versions
Updates and Upgrades
Getting Started with Monitoring

3. Monitoring

Basic Principles of monitoring with Checkmk
The user interface
Host and service views
Dashboards
Commands
Acknowledging problems
Scheduled downtimes
Performance data and graphing

4. Configuration

Configuring Checkmk
Monitoring agents
Host Administration
Understanding and configuring services
Host and service parameters
Users, roles and permissions
Time periods
Notifications
Labels

5. Further Articles

5.1. Monitoring of various systems

Monitoring Linux
Monitoring Windows
Monitoring via SNMP
Monitoring VMWare ESXi
Monitoring Docker
Monitoring Kubernetes
Integrating Prometheus
Monitoring Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Monitoring Microsoft Azure
Monitoring Oracle databases
Monitoring MySQL
Monitoring cluster services
Monitoring network services (Active checks)
Datasource programs
Local checks

5.2. Web interface and analyses

Securing the web interface with HTTPS
User Management with LDAP/Active Directory
Single Sign-On with Kerberos
Predictive Monitoring
Availability
Extended availability (SLAs)
Reports
BI - Business Intelligence
Forecast graphs

5.3. Command line and APIs

Checkmk on the command line
Retrieving status data via Livestatus
Livestatus command reference
Configuration via HTTP-API
Command reference for the HTTP-API

5.4. Other advanced topics

Security
The event console
Distributed Monitoring
The HW/SW Inventory
Automatic Agent Updates
Monitoring instances (sites)
The Piggyback mechanism
Dynamic host configuration
The Managed Services Edition
Alert handlers
Checkmk in a Docker container
Checkmk extension packages (MKPs)
Checkmk’s simulation mode
Regular expressions in Checkmk

5.5. The Checkmk Micro Core (CMC)

The Checkmk micro core (CMC)
CMC files and directories
Migration to the CMC
Special characteristics of the CMC

5.6. Integrating Checkmk with other systems

Integrating Checkmk in Grafana
NagVis: status data on maps and diagrams
Connecting Nagstamon to Checkmk
Notifications via Jira
Notifications via Mattermost
Notifications via PagerDuty
Notifications via Pushover
Notifications via Opsgenie
Notifications via ServiceNow
Notifications via Slack
Notifications via VictorOps
Notifications via Cisco Webex Teams

6. Implementing extensions

Guidelines for coding check plug-ins

7. The Checkmk Appliance

Quick start guide for Checkmk rack1
Quick start guide for Checkmk virt1
Configuring and using the Appliance

8. Training content

System Monitoring with Checkmk – Part 1: The Basics
System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 2: Advance Topics

9. Miscellaneous

Copyright information

Features Editions Integrations

Videos Webinars Trainings

Forecast Graphs

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1. Introduction