Monitoring Data Centers and Windows Azure Application with

Monitoring Data Centers and Windows Azure Application with SCOM 2007 R 2 Sailaja Manda, SDET Microsoft Corporation sailajam@microsoft. com

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Agenda • SCOM platform overview • How can It be used in data centre monitoring • Demonstrate azure application monitoring

What is Data Center? Data Center / Ops Environment Is my LOB Application Healthy? – Meeting SLA Are the users of my LOB Application Happy? – Being Per formant Are Data center resources under utilized? – Cost Effective

What is SCOM? • Best of breed end to end management solutions for windows platform and beyond • Improved Service Levels across your IT environment with proactive monitoring. • Increase efficiency • Greater Control through role based architecture. • Extensibility

SCOM Platform Overview

SCOM Management Pack Presentation Views Templates Language Packs Knowledge Monitoring Manifest Type Definitions Discoveries Types Rules Relation Ships Monitors Tasks Overrides Diag/Recovery Secure References Reporting

• SCOM platform overview • How can It be used in data centre monitoring • Demonstrate azure application monitoring

Management Pack Catalog • • • SLA Monitoring Server Role Monitoring Platform Level Monitoring Device Monitoring Network Monitoring Application Level Monitoring

Data Center reflected by SCOM Print Server DPM Server Reflected by SCOM Data Center Microsoft introduced SCOM to solve device and server monitoring which comprise major workload. Ops. Mgr brings proactive monitoring with which could help be efficient and meet better SLA and flattens the linear relationship between people and systems which will also result in reducing cost. SQL servers From same PDU SLA Not Met Servers HR LOB Application

Agenda • SCOM platform overview • How can It be used in data centre monitoring • Demonstrate azure application monitoring

Windows Azure Platform

Azure Subscription Unique user account in Windows Azure

Hosted Service Instanc e 0 Instanc e 1 Instanc e. N Web Role Instanc e 0 Instanc e 1 Instanc e. N Work er Role – INTERNAL ONLY

Storage Service Storage Table Storage Blob Storage Queue Drive

Service Management API • The Service Management API provides programmatic access to much of the functionality available through the Management Portal – Deploy a service – Spawn instances – Get status of a deployment –…

Azure Diagnostics Role Instance (VM) Role Diagnostic Monitor Local directory storage: Diagnostic Output IIS Log & Failed Request Logs Performance Counters Windows Event Logs Data collection, Traces, . Net logs, Crash Dumps Schedul ed Transfer On Deman d

Guest. Book Service

Configuring Azure Service for Monitoring • Deploy application with full trust • The management group must be running Operations Manager 2007 R 2 Cumulative Update 3. • Windows Azure Diagnostics must be enabled • Windows Azure Diagnostics must be configured to forward diagnostic data to a Windows Azure storage account.

Azure Management Pack • The Windows Azure Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on Windows Azure • The management pack runs on a specified agent and then uses various Windows Azure APIs to remotely discover and collect instrumentation information about a specified Windows Azure application

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Performance Collection • Performance collection rules – ASP. NET Applications Requests/sec – Network Interface Bytes Received/sec – Network Interface Bytes Sent/sec – Processor % Processor Time Total – Logical. Disk Free Megabytes – Logical. Disk % Free Space – Memory Available Megabytes – INTERNAL ONLY

Monitors • Enabled: – Windows Azure Role Instance Status Monitor • Disabled: – Available Megabytes of Memory ! – Total CPU Utilization Percentage – INTERNAL ONLY

Health Rollup

Windows Azure Table Grooming • Three rules: – Windows Azure Role NT Event Log Grooming – Windows Azure Role Performance Counter Grooming – Windows Azure Role. NET Trace Grooming – INTERNAL ONLY

Alerting Rules • • • Hosted Service Not Found Invalid Certificate Invalid Hosted Service Name Management Client Authentication Failure Initialization Failure Remote Name Resolution Failure REST Operation Timed Out Storage Service Client Authentication Failure Storage Table Not Found – INTERNAL ONLY

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