Schneider Electric Sentinel January 2017 Presented by Krishnan
Schneider Electric Sentinel January 2017 Presented by: Krishnan Iyer, Director – Global Customer Support Confidential Property of Schneider Electric
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1. Introduction Ensure Optimal Health, Performance and Availability of your Wonderware system through Proactive Monitoring • Schneider Electric Sentinel is a new software application designed to help customers continuously monitor their Wonderware system, including: • • core Wonderware software performance attributes system application services computer health metrics connection status indicators • Sentinel generates alerts when those attributes exceed defined tolerance ranges and state changes. • When an attribute goes out of tolerance, the customer’s designated (internal/external) support team is notified and can respond proactively to prevent production interruption or unplanned downtime. • Schneider Electric Sentinel is an optional and exclusive benefit available for Premium or Elite Customer FIRST members. Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 3
2. Problem Statements Monitoring Issues Pinpointing errors Customers have to manually monitor their Wonderware applications and related systems Customers spend a lot of time trying to pinpoint the root cause of application and system performance issues System Diagnosis Proactive vs. Reactive Customers do not have a streamlined approach for identifying and diagnosing issues occurring in their production systems Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 4 Important system errors are often unaddressed and result in performance degradation and downtime
3. Benefits Improves Productivity Reduces Downtime • Eliminates guesswork • Provides detailed alerts • Streamlines diagnosing process • Identifies application degradation • Streamlines issue resolution Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 5 Maximises System Utilization • Enables preventive maintenance • Reduces complexity of managing an automation system
4. Overview Ensure Optimal Health, Performance and Availability of your Wonderware system through Proactive Monitoring • Schneider Electric Sentinel monitors critical aspects of running Wonderware applications and related computers Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 6
5. What does Schneider Electric Sentinel monitor? Platforms, Engines and DI Objects Archestr. A Services SQL Server Services Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 7 Performance Monitor Counters Historian Services MES Services Wonderware and Windows Services
6. Architecture Sentinel architecture includes: Sentinel Management Server Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 8 Sentinel Agents Permissions-based Monitoring Roles Customer-specified Machines to Monitor
7. Alerts and Notifications • Schneider Electric Sentinel constantly monitors the customer’s Wonderware system, and automatically dispatches alert notifications to a resource team that the customer designates. Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 9
8. Additional Sentinel-related Services • The following Schneider Electric Sentinel support services are offered by the experts at Wonderware Optional Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 10
Release Status for Sentinel Release Phase Activity Timeframe Alpha Distributors, System Integrators & small number of end user customers (2) COMPLETED May 2016 Beta 1 Distributors, System Integrators and additional end user customers (5) COMPLETED July 2016 Beta 2 End user customers (12), Distributors & System Integrators September – November 2016 * As of this moment, open to 1 additional customers (with remote support from Wonderware). Must be installed in a non-production environment. For more details, please contact your Wonderware West Sales Account Executive TODAY! In Progress / to complete November 18 th, 2016 Controlled Release Note: the Controlled Release is a fully supported / life cycle release – limited to 20 -25 customers in production environments. February 2017 With the release of P 1 Estimated End of Q 1 2017 *includes follow-up customer care from Wonderware General Availability Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 11
Software Asset Manager 3. 0 Current Release: 3. 0 SP 1 12
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Agenda – Software Asset Manager (SAM) And Sentinel – Proactive System Monitoring § About SAM § High-level Overview - How it works - Software Asset Manager 3. 0 Architecture § SAM as a Service § How YOU can obtain SAM for customer engagements Visit TEAM for the SAM Sales Brief and detailed presentations § SAM Technical Overview & Live Demonstration § Sentinel – Coming Soon! Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 14
SAM 3. 0 Road Map > Current Release 3. 0 SP 1 > June 2016 > Next Release 3. 0 SP 1 P 2 > Planned – available for download February 2016 Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 15
The Challenges SAM Helps to Solve: SAM is a software tool which aids customers in the management of licenses and software versions installed in their plant. Tracking licenses and updating software is time consuming. Manual Audits Compliance Issues Keeping Software Current Patch Management Confidential Property of Schneider Electric Customers have to physically audit and track software and licenses installed at their plant. Customers need a way to ensure that they are running licensed software to avoid compliance issues Customers need to manually compare installed software versions against currently shipping software It is time consuming and cumbersome to identify and apply relevant patches and upgrades for hundreds of computers 16
Software Asset Manager (SAM) v 3. 0 What Wonderware* software do I have installed? A Schneider Electric application that provides: § License inventory management and reporting Is my software current? § Software update & patch management services *Wonderware/Citect & Ampla Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 17
SAM 3. 0 - License Inventory Management for Wonderware | Citect | Ampla Software Discover and report on software and licences installed at your plant - On the production network - In a test environment - Non-networked machines Customer Benefits & Value - Eliminates the need for manual audit of computers and manual data entry/reporting of licenses. - Compliance with internal license audit requirements - Saves time and money! NO DATA is ever sent to Schneider Electric! Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 18
Software Asset Manager 3. 0 Features: Streamlined one-click installation Optimized application architecture Single client installation Hotfix detection (provided the Hotfix Manager utility was used) Enhanced Product support for Wonderware, Citect and Ampla Software Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 19
How it works • Detect • Detect Map the entire network of machines running Wonderware, Citect and Ampla licenses • Assess • Compare installed licenses with available version upgrades and patches Report Assess • Acquire • Download relevant software versions and patches • Deploy • Push updates to selected machines • Report • Generate reports on active and expired Wonderware, Citect and Ampla licenses for compliance purposes Confidential Property of Schneider Electric Deploy Acquire Software Asset Manager Process 20
Software Asset Manager 3. 0 Architecture Global Customer Support Corporate Environment Product Meta-Data Storage Product File Storage Site Meta-data Storage Operations Environment Disconnected Computers System A System B Software Asset Manager (SAM) Security • • Signed Application Integrated Single Sign-on User Authentication HTTPS/SSL Data Transfer 128 -bit Data Encryption Confidential Property of Schneider Electric Detect, Assess, Acquire, Deploy, Report Networked Computers System C 21
SAM 3. 0 - Patch Management for Wonderware | Citect | Ampla Software Automatic assessment of all installed Wonderware, Citect or Ampla software and checks for available updates - Versions, updates, service packs, patches, and hot fixes installed using the Hotfix Manager utility Customer Benefits & Value - Eliminates need to search website to download relevant patches - Helps you efficiently align your Wonderware, Citect or Ampla software on common versions/patches - Facilitates upgrade planning - Saves time and money! Confidential Property of Schneider Electric 22
Successes “We had a great run with Software Asset Manager 3. 0. Everything works as expected with no issues whatsoever. ” ~ David Bell, ATR Distributing Co. , Cincinnati “Software Asset Manager works really well and is quick in helping us identify and manage our software licenses. ” ~ Confidential Eric Petroskey, P&G, Alexandria LA Property of Schneider Electric 23
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FY 17 Technology Projects …
Key Projects 2017 – Highlights. . • Complete CCE for APAC, set foundation for 24 x 7 global support • Complete migration of all brands to Siebel • Complete project Berlin to enable multi-brand entitlement support and migrate all brands to GCSWeb • Build mobile app for GCSWeb and provide Chat function on GCSWeb • Reporting project: Update existing reports, add dashboard functionality, include analytics • Improve usage of OKM internally • Focus on streamlining processes across GCS – minimize technology platform customizations • Split CCE and OKM infrastructure from PA • SAM is in maintenance mode with potential expansion to other brands • Sentinel – make it ‘service ready’, add enhancements to enable GCS to provide support services • Nestle related projects • Develop GCSWeb and related utilities/applications for internal use (support engineers) Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 28
The Team … (playing to our strengths. . !) • Blend of onsite and offshore team + 3 rd party vendor resources • Key leaders well versed in business process and technology • Solid support from GCS stakeholders and IT • Julie Terry (CCE, Siebel plus all other technologies) • Giri + Cognizant (Siebel + Reporting) • Raul + Cognizant + Others (SAM, GCSWeb) • Michael Boor (UI, OKM Content, SAM/Sentinel) • Ray Ko (GCSWeb, OKM, Search) • Paritosh Shah (Managing India team + 3 rd party vendors) • Bhupendran, Syam, Manjunath, Guru (GCSWeb) • Kris Mudaliar (mobile apps, Berlin, Citect website) • Ed Laughery (Sentinel, SAM) Confidential Property of Schneider Electric | Page 29 • Peter Mauler (EURA) • Annie Cantin (PMO) • Guylen Galarnau • Daniela Tulbure • Minervanandan • Standardized processes • Stakeholder status updates • Fiscal responsibility
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