Datacenter End to End Monitoring Using System Center Ravi Sankar

Datacenter End to End Monitoring Using System Center Ravi Sankar Technology Evangelist Microsoft Corporation http://ravisankar.spaces.live.com/blog

Session Objectives Understanding the Challenges in Monitoring a Datacenter Capabilities of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Solution Examples

Agenda Introduction Monitoring Distributed Applications End User Perspective Monitoring Agentless Exception Monitoring Monitoring the Security Logs Monitoring Virtual Environment Cross Platform Monitoring & Interoperability Summary

IT Delivers Services; Not Servers Web WebOrders Orders Application Service Middlewar e Virtual Machine Client s Linux Web Server Physical Network Databas e

Monitoring Distributed Application Applications/ components that interact to provide a service to an end user Runs on many physical tiers - Scale out, over the internet, disparate networks Heterogeneous components - Legacy applications, Partner Web Services

Designing Distributed Applications Leverage Distributed Application Templates Design the top level logical components Capture what you know into the Model Component Groups Relationships It’s an iterative process, you can create/ remove/ update at anytime

Distributed Application Templates

DEMO Monitoring Distributed Applications

End User Perspective Monitoring An understanding of “end user experience” is required to gain an accurate view of a service’s operation Synthetic transactions act like an end user of the service and report back the results The synthetic transaction results can be used for reporting or as an alert to possible service problems

DEMO Synthetic Transaction

Agentless Exception Monitoring Unreported issues can drive reduced uptime and security AEM enables collection, viewing and reporting of application and operating system crashes Allows Enterprises to manage flow of crash information Aggregates error data for reporting

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AEM Report - Top N Applications AEM TopN Application crashes Expand this section to see a full description of this report Report Generated: 7/26/2006 4:30 PM Start/End date and time: From 7/1/2006 5:08 PM to 7/7/2006 5:08 PM Object(s): 2 Objects included in this report TopN Errors: 5 Cost per Crash 100 Top1 – 10 Errors Application Name Version Vendor Total volume Unique Users affected Unique Computers affected Crash Cost in Microsoft.MOM.UI.Console.exe 6.0.3093.0 Microsoft 12 1 10 1200 Microsoft.ACME.UI.Console.exe 6.0.3094.0 - 10 4 2 1000 Reports: TopN error groups Views: AEM Application State view AEM Error Group State View

AEM Report -Top Errors AEM TopN Errors report Expand this section to see a full description of this report Report Generated: 7/26/2006 4:30 PM Start/End date and time: From 7/1/2006 5:08 PM to 7/7/2006 5:08 PM Object(s): 2 Objects included in this report TopN Errors: 5 Top1 – 10 Errors Management Group TopN Application Name Version Module Woodgrove Bank 1 Microsoft.MOM.UI.Console.exe 6.0.3093.0 Hungapp Woodgrove Bank 2 Microsoft.MOM.UI.Console.exe 6.0.3094.0 Hungapp Reports: TopN Application crashes Views: Attributes View Version # of crashes 0.0.0 1 0.0.0 0.09 Avg daily Crash Response / freq available since 1 06/12/2006 13:30:00 06/12/2006 13:30:00 06/12/2006 13:30:00

DEMO Agentless Exception Monitoring

Monitoring the Security Logs Windows But all thesecurity events log is used for by generated generating Windows audit policies compliance reports are and performing stored in local security analysis computers Audi t Coll ecti on Serv ice (AC S) can extr act and stor e Win dow s secu rity logs for later anal ysis and repo rtin g

Audit Collection Service

DEMO Audit Collection Service

Monitoring the Virtual Environment Separate virtual Tight integration machine monitoring with applications infrastructure add would help resource complexity to the IT optimization environment Perf orm ance and Reso urce Opti miza tion (PRO ) feat ure in SCV MM 200 8 can act upo n the data provi ded by SCO M 200 7

Performance And Resource Optimization (PRO)

DEMO PRO Tips

Cross Platform Monitoring & Interoperability Organization s need endto-end visibility into the health and performance of IT infrastructur e Often this infrastructur e is comprised of a complex mix of different operating systems SCOM 2007 Cross Platform Extensions allow monitoring of Linux & Unix systems SCOM 2007 connectors for HP Openview & IBM Tivoli allows interoperabil ity

SCOM 2007 CPE Architecture

DEMO Cross Platform Extensions

Summary Today’s heterogeneous IT environment requires an integrated management approach. Microsoft System Center suite covers all aspects of IT infrastructure management System Center Operations Manager 2007 is an integrated monitoring solution for Windows, Linux and Unix systems covering both physical and virtual environments Reduce Complexity and Save

References SCOM Management Pack Catalog http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc53953 5.aspx SCOM Extensions by Quest http://www.quest.com/system-center/monitoringdiagnostics.aspx

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