Training Services
Boost your business performance, and prepare your team for success.
ScienceLogic offers a comprehensive set of end-user training programs that can help your organization be more efficient and productive—immediately. The programs are delivered based on the unique roles and responsibilities of your IT team. They are offered as on-demand courses, instructor-led, web-based courses, and a custom training curriculum provided by an on-site instructor.
Get started with complimentary, on-demand training.
The Operator Learning Path teaches monitoring basics.It is designed to help NOC operators see, contextualize, and act upon events and event-driven data that correlates with infrastructure downtime.
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The Dashboard Learning Path teaches advanced reporting.It is designed to help all team members use the ScienceLogic SL1 platform for day-to-day monitoring and reporting.
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The Operator Learning Path teaches monitoring basics.It is designed to help NOC operators see, contextualize, and act upon events and event-driven data that correlates with infrastructure downtime.
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The Dashboard Learning Path teaches advanced reporting.It is designed to help all team members use the ScienceLogic SL1 platform for day-to-day monitoring and reporting.
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Continue learning with instructor-led courses.
No matter their role, ScienceLogic instructor-led training has your team covered.
Operator
- Responds to events
- Performs discovery tasks
- Implements monitoring policies
- Troubleshoots infrastructure & network issues
- Answers customer questions
Administrator
- Implements updates
- Provides backups
- Configures HA & DR
- Monitors collector/DB communication
- Provides new collector builds
Power User
- Designs & builds dashboards
- Models business services
- Defines requirements for dynamic applications, integrations, & automations
- Develops automations
Developer
- Creates reports
- Designs & implements dynamic applications
- Defines & implements automations
- Creates dashboard widgets
Professional Series
The ScienceLogic Professional Series will get your team up to speed quickly. These instructor-led web-based courses cover the essential skills needed when your system is new, or your team members are new to it.
Courses can be taken in any order.
Welcome to SL1 is a course for anyone who is going to use SL1 or needing a high-level introduction. It includes an overview of ScienceLogic SL1 platform capabilities, navigation, search, and reporting of collected data. Students will perform basic tasks in their own SL1 system with guidance from the instructor.
Duration: 4 hours
- Navigating and searching SL1
- Accessing operational data
- Running reports
- Accessing events and dashboards
Who should attend:
 Operators |
 Power Users |
 Administrators |
 Developers |
Onboarding & Discovery is designed for members of your operations team who are responsible for adding and configuring devices for monitoring. This course covers SNMP, PowerShell, and SSH method discovery plus VMware, AWS, and Azure cloud discovery.
Duration: 8 hours
- Discovering different devices
- Device configuration requirements
- Network requirements
- Verifying discovery
- Best practices
- Troubleshooting discovery
 Operators |
 Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Monitoring & Events is designed for members of your operations team who are responsible for applying monitoring policies, assigning thresholds, and responding to events.
Duration: 8 hours
- Introducing monitoring & events
- Collecting standard metrics
- Applying monitoring policies
- Introducing dynamic applications
- Confirming device monitoring
- Interacting with events and the event manager
- Managing automations
- Troubleshooting
| Operators |
Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Learners can register for the ScienceLogic Certified Professional (SCP) online assessment once they have completed all three courses in the Professional Series. The ScienceLogic Certified Professional accomplishment allows you to demonstrate your knowledge of core SL1 functionality and use cases.
Duration: 90 minutes
Required Professional Series Courses:
- Welcome to SL1
- Onboarding & Discovery
- Monitoring & Events
| Operators |
Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Welcome to SL1 is a course for anyone who is going to use SL1 or needing a high-level introduction. It includes an overview of ScienceLogic SL1 platform capabilities, navigation, search, and reporting of collected data. Students will perform basic tasks in their own SL1 system with guidance from the instructor.
Duration: 4 hours
Topics include:
- Navigating and searching SL1
- Accessing operational data
- Running reports
- Accessing events and dashboards
Who should attend:
| Operators |
Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Onboarding & Discovery is designed for members of your operations team who are responsible for adding and configuring devices for monitoring. This course covers SNMP, PowerShell, and SSH method discovery plus VMware, AWS, and Azure cloud discovery.
Duration: 8 hours
Topics include:
- Discovering different devices
- Device configuration requirements
- Network requirements
- Verifying discovery
- Best practices
- Troubleshooting discovery
Who should attend:
| Operators |
Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Monitoring & Events is designed for members of your operations team who are responsible for applying monitoring policies, assigning thresholds, and responding to events.
Duration: 8 hours
Topics include:
- Introducing monitoring & events
- Collecting standard metrics
- Applying monitoring policies
- Introducing dynamic applications
- Confirming device monitoring
- Interacting with events and the event manager
- Managing automations
- Troubleshooting
Who should attend:
| Operators |
Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Learners can register for the ScienceLogic Certified Professional (SCP) online assessment once they have completed all three courses in the Professional Series. The ScienceLogic Certified Professional accomplishment allows you to demonstrate your knowledge of core SL1 functionality and use cases.
Duration: 90 minutes
Required Professional Series Courses:
- Welcome to SL1
- Onboarding & Discovery
- Monitoring & Events
Who should attend:
| Operators |
Power Users |
| Administrators |
Developers |
Expert Series
The ScienceLogic Expert Series of courses addresses the advanced features your team demands. SL1 can present your data on Dashboards, model Business Services, and execute Automations based on event detections.
Courses can be taken in any order.
- Dynamic Applications
- Business Services with Dashboards
- SL1 Administration Basics
- ScienceLogic Certified Expert
Dynamic Applications is a course for team members who need to understand Dynamic Applications and how they tie into event policies. This course teaches how to build SNMP and database Dynamic Applications, including configuration and performance management, alert functions, and Event Policies.
Duration: 8 hours
- Managing Dynamic Applications in the SL1 platform
- Collection methods
- Underlying database structure
- Properties, collections, presentations, thresholds, alerts
- Creating event policies
- Reviewing collected data via API
| Power Users |
Developers |
Business Services with Dashboards is designed for team members who will use SL1 to model high level business services, IT services, and device services. This course teaches how to design, model, configure and present business services to your end users.
Duration: 8 hours
- Understanding business services
- Modeling or defining a business service
- Configuring the business service
- Determining Health, Availability, and Risk (HAR)
- Templating a business service for repeated use
- Building dashboards to show business service data
| Power Users |
Developers |
SL1 Administration Basics covers standard administration tasks available in the user interface. This course will help with account administration, backups, data retention and more.
Duration: 8 hours
- Multitenancy, access control, and authentication
- Data retention and system size impact
- Setting global thresholds
- MAC vendors and de-duplication
- Managing system log messages
- Installing the SL1 Operational Insights powerpacks
- Ensuring a healthy system
| Power Users |
Developers |
Learners can register for the ScienceLogic Certified Expert (SCE) online assessment once they complete these three courses in the Expert Series and obtained their SCP certification. The SCE accomplishment allows you to demonstrate your knowledge of advanced SL1 functionality and use cases.
Duration: 90 minutes
Prerequisites:
- ScienceLogic Certified Professional Certification
- Dynamic Applications
- Business Service with Dashboards
- SL1 Administration Basics
| Power Users |
Developers |
- Dynamic Applications
- Business Services with Dashboards
- SL1 Administration Basics
- ScienceLogic Certified Expert
Dynamic Applications is a course for team members who need to understand Dynamic Applications and how they tie into event policies. This course teaches how to build SNMP and database Dynamic Applications, including configuration and performance management, alert functions, and Event Policies.
Duration: 8 hours
Topics include:
- Managing Dynamic Applications in the SL1 platform
- Collection methods
- Underlying database structure
- Properties, collections, presentations, thresholds, alerts
- Creating event policies
- Reviewing collected data via API
Who should attend:
| Power Users |
Developers |
Business Services with Dashboards is designed for team members who will use SL1 to model high level business services, IT services, and device services. This course teaches how to design, model, configure and present business services to your end users.
Duration: 8 hours
Topics include:
- Understanding business services
- Modeling or defining a business service
- Configuring the business service
- Determining Health, Availability, and Risk (HAR)
- Templating a business service for repeated use
- Building dashboards to show business service data
Who should attend:
| Power Users |
Developers |
SL1 Administration Basics covers standard administration tasks available in the user interface. This course will help with account administration, backups, data retention and more.
Duration: 8 hours
Topics include:
- Multitenancy, access control, and authentication
- Data retention and system size impact
- Setting global thresholds
- MAC vendors and de-duplication
- Managing system log messages
- Installing the SL1 Operational Insights powerpacks
- Ensuring a healthy system
Who should attend:
| Power Users |
Developers |
Learners can register for the ScienceLogic Certified Expert (SCE) online assessment once they complete these three courses in the Expert Series and obtained their SCP certification. The SCE accomplishment allows you to demonstrate your knowledge of advanced SL1 functionality and use cases.
Duration: 90 minutes
Prerequisites:
- ScienceLogic Certified Professional Certification
Required Expert Series Courses:
- Dynamic Applications
- Business Service with Dashboards
- SL1 Administration Basics
Who should attend:
| Power Users |
Developers |
Training Calendar
january, 2020
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can I contact for information related to training?
- All questions can be sent to: training@sciencelogic.com
How do I get to the on-demand training that is offered for no additional cost?
- Go to sciencelogic-university.litmos.com and follow the instructions to sign up for your account. Use your work email address.
What are the on-demand, self-paced training courses?
- SL1 Operator learning path comprises 17 short (8–15 minutes) courses covering basics and most of the features needed to get started using SL1.
- SL1 Dashboards learning path is 5 courses.
- Courses are available 24/7.
How much does training cost?
- ScienceLogic is dedicated to enabling your team and providing a great customer experience. To accomplish this, there is a large amount of training that is included with your product purchase so you can get the training you need. Contact us»
When is instructor-led training offered?
- Instructor-led training is available in a monthly recurring pattern and offered in both half-day and one-day formats.
I want to sign up for instructor-led training. Where can I see the courses and dates?
- Courses and dates are available on your dashboard in the ScienceLogic University, please go to sciencelogic-university.litmos.com and follow the instructions to sign up for your account. Remember to use your work e-mail address.
I see training courses. Can I get certified?
- Yes, certification assessments are available to everyone who has met the certain levels of training. You can register yourself into the certification course through the ScienceLogic University once the prerequisites have been met (see course details for further information).
What are the certification prerequisites?
- ScienceLogic Certified Professional (SCP) credential assessment may be taken after completion of these courses:
- ScienceLogic Certified Expert (SCE) assessment may be taken after you obtain the SCP credential and complete these additional courses:
Do I have to take the SCP certification test?
- The ScienceLogic Professional and Expert certifications tests are optional. Learners should decide for themselves if their goal is to get the certification.
Can I pick and choose which sessions to take?
- Learners may take the sessions out of order, but it is recommended that the courses be taken in order. For example, the session titled Welcome to SL1 should be taken prior to taking Onboarding & Discovery.
