DevOps for Windows admins

Site24x7

Rex Peter

> Challenges faced by the infrastructure and application teams> Agent-based server monitoring flexibility> Performance metrics with agent-based server monitoring> Out-of-the-box Windows applications monitoring> Troubleshoot each of your apps at the code level: IIS |DevOps > Create your own application monitoring tool with plug-ins | DevOps> REST API for DevOps> Complement your ManageEngine Server

Agenda

> Need to offer high availability on the servers and network.

> Application's end-user experience should be excellent.

> Identify slowness in application / servers and optimize it periodically.

> MTTR : Identify issues faster and fix them.

Challenges faced by the infrastructure and application teams

Monitoring from the cloud - Agent based

Server monitoring

• Agent based monitoring• Supports Windows and Linux machines• Purely outbound communications for security purpose. • Auto discovery of Windows applications and helps DevOps to troubleshoot code level.• No credentials required to monitor performance metrics. • Proxy settings can be configured specific to each server

Easy ways to deploy agents in bulk

Windows Linux

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Remote servers monitored using Site24x7 server agent

• Distributed Remote Servers

• No need for dedicated network

• Helps Centralized monitoring

• Real-time monitoring

• Instant alerts

Monitored with Site24x7 server agents

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Server resources monitored• CPU utilization, CPU by core

• Memory utilization, Memory break up, emory pages

• Disk utilization, Individual disks

• Windows Service / Processes

• Event / Syslogs

• Rx/Tx statistics

Monitor your core application's services and processes

Start or stop

Start / Stop

Take action from your native Site24x7 mobile app:

• iOS

• Android

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Root cause analysis report during downtime

Top processes by:

CPU

Memory

Top processes by CPU and memory while the server's down

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Monitors the server interfaces Status of the interface | Rx or tx traffic | Errors | Bandwidth utilization

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Network monitoring capabilities with Site24x7

Auto-Discovery of your entire network.

Interface Monitoring

Supported Device Types: Storage WAN Accelerators Switches Printers Wireless Routers Firewalls UPS Load Balancers

Out-of-the-box monitoring with Site24x7 server agents.

Windows applications

Preconfigured Site24x7 Windows app monitoring

Server + IIS + APM Insight

Application monitoring

for DevOps

IIS server monitoring

Start/Stop a

site

Start/Stop App pools

IIS server app pools with actions

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IIS server: App resource statistics

IIS server app pools:

• Memory usage

• Network usage

• Exceptions

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Enhance your IIS monitoring with APM Insight

Toggle for APM

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Learn which traces are slowing down your IIS apps: Troubleshoot

Understand how your IIS apps work for users: Real user monitoring

Identify based on:

• Response time

• Device

• Browser

• ISP

• Geography

DevOps

Create your own monitoring using

plugins

Out of box Site24x7 plugins support in Github repository for all the above apps.

Create your own custom Windows & Linux based plugins monitor using Python, Shell, DLL, Batch, PowerShell, and VBScript.

Site24x7 Integrate with 4000+ Nagios Plugins available, it reduces the effort for you to create your own plugins script

Set threshold values for individual attributes in a plugin for immediate notifications if the set values are exceed.

View the performance charts for multiple plugins across servers in a single, understandable chart.

Site24x7 plugins | Create your own monitoring: DevOps

Two custom scripts: 1. Hardware metrics (VBScript) Cooling status, thermal status, power status...

2. Operating system objects (PowerShell script) Event, threads,process..

Site24x7 plug-ins demo

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Hardware metrics with VBScript

Hardware metrics output in Site24x7

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Operating system objects with PowerShell scripts

• Events

• Mutexes

• Processes

• Sections

• Semaphores

• Threads

Operating system objects' output in Site24x7

Resource checks

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Monitor key resources on your server

Avoid application failure |Content check

Create checks to monitor log files for specific alarming text that has the potential to crash the application.

Ex: Outofmemory

File checks: Access check | Permissions check | Size check | Last modified check | Content check

Directory checks: Size check | Subdirectory availability | File availability | Access check | Permissions check

File and directory checks

"If you don’t have logs available, you’re flying

blind."

Windows event log monitoring

Query the event logs from our server tools

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Event log rule monitoring

Get notified when important events occur.

Monitor by:• Event ID• Severity • Keyword

REST API Achieve all the operations without going to the client

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API lets you:

• Add monitors into Site24x7

• Modify/delete/suspend monitors

• Obtain availability and response time graphs

• View current uptime status and response time

• List the last 'x' downtimes

of all monitors

• Setup Schelde maintenance

• Obtain consolidated uptime and performance reports

• Our New UI is bult over API • Full API Documentation

Maintenance of a server in AWS

Schedule maintenance by calling the Site24x7 API within your application.

Shut down and start up the script to avoid false positives.

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Complement your ManageEngine

server

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Monitor your ServiceDesk Plus server via Site24x7's server agent ServiceDesk Plus

admin tab

Monitor from outside your data center

Real-time heart beat checks

Instant notifications

Track service: ManageEngine ServiceDesk

Process: java.exe postgres.exe

Self monitoring Site24x7 can help self-monitor any ManageEngine product server for free.

• Monitor availability

• Resources

• Services and processes

• Get instant notifications

• Any IT management on-premises products can be monitored.

Thank you!rex@zohocorp.com