OPNMGR day to day
For technicians who work in OPNMGR (OPNManager) every day: reading the fleet dashboard and per-firewall health, working incidents (acknowledge versus resolve) and maintenance windows, configuration backups compared against an approved baseline, what a restore involves, fleet configuration search, ringed update campaigns that never take down both members of a CARP pair, structured actions and bulk operations, and recovering an agent that has stopped checking in.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 45 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- OPNMGR · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Read the fleet dashboard and a firewall's health view, including gateways, tunnels, services, certificates and CARP state
- Work an incident correctly: acknowledge to stop notifications, and let it resolve when the condition clears
- Review configuration drift against the approved baseline and choose acknowledge, promote or escalate for restore
- Explain how update campaigns move through canary, pilot and production rings and how CARP pairs are handled
- Recover an agent that has stopped checking in using its log, its service and the per-firewall reinstall command
Course outline
- 1.OPNMGR day to dayVideo · 2 min
- 2.Dashboard, health and incidentsLesson · 15 min
- 3.Backups, drift and restoresLesson · 15 min
- 4.Updates, actions and agent troubleLesson · 15 min
- 5.OPNMGR day to day: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- OPNMGR README: quick start, compatibility, known limitations, upgrading
- OPNMGR docs/walkthrough-script.md: walkthrough transcript
- OPNMGR CHANGELOG.md: incidents, drift, rings, restore safety, two-factor, reinstall command
- OPNMGR SECURITY.md: agent authentication, secrets at rest, roles, sessions, hardening, AI redaction, audit log
- OPNMGR FEATURES.md: feature catalogue (health, backups, commands, statistics)
- OPNMGR docs/UPGRADING.md: upgrading the server and the agent fleet
- OPNMGR docs/AGENT_RECOVERY_GUIDE.md: agents that stop checking in
- MSP Zero: OPNMGR tool page (first deployment, know before you deploy)
- OPNsense documentation: Configure CARP (high availability, master and backup)
- OPNsense documentation: Backups (config.xml)
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