Designing the Infrastructure and

Application Audit Tool

Chuck Czajkowskicczajkowski@Accelatis.com

Agenda

1. Accelatis Background

2. Problem Background

3. Goals

4. Where we are

5. What’s next

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A Comprehensive Approachto EPM System Management

Oracle Hyperion EPM Deployment

Empower Business Users & I.T.

Broad Approach to Application Performance Management

Deep LookInto the underlying systems

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Overall

Solution

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ManageAll Moving

PartsMonitor Apps &

InfrastructureAcross All

Environments

Root Cause Analysis

Best Practices

Performance Test

Integrated Throughout

SDLC

OptimizeEliminate

Bottlenecks

Support & Help DeskStreamline

Process

Problem Background

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Current State

1. Most infrastructure consulting partners have home-grown tools or processes for performing basic health checks and system reviews

2. Many generic industry standard audits exist

3. Details change from release to release

4. Oracle delivers Validation report

5. Lack of community-wide benchmark database

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Goals

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Goals

1. Build a platform for delivering audits without requiring server-installed software

2. Enable both Infrastructure and Application type audits

3. Enable performance benchmarking capabilities as well

4. Deliver most commonly-used audits and health checks

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Goals (cont)

5. Open platform to partners to build their specific needs

6. Leverage existing tools and reportso Add value by enabling comparison over time and across

servers/environments

7. Provide interface for users to compare benchmark results against rest of community

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Where We Are

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Where We Are

1. Platform is created

2. Basic audits are created

3. Basic reporting engine in place

4. Require input on specific checks and associated validation o ie: Trigger Disk Space < 10% or < XGB

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What it does

o Hyperion-specific as well as generic analysis of key Infrastructure settings and performance

o Issues are identified and recommendations provided based on best practices

o Detailed Proprietary Benchmarks to analyze database, disk and network performance help to uncover discrepancies between environments

o Types of checks include:o Accelatis Deployment Summaryo Accelatis Complianceo Throughput KPIs (database, disk, bandwidth, etc…)o TCP Chimney Setting and other non-Hyperion specific settingso Current Health Statuso Hyperion Instance Report

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Report

4 sections• Summary

o List of pass/fail records for each check/server

• Details and Recommendationso More insight into what was being checked, why it failed and

recommendations to address

• Snapshoto Listing of all settings leveraged in the review including all server

and product settings

• Executive Scorecardo Details of proprietary Accelatis KPIs and how this client relates

to others

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What’s Next

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Brainstorm

Determine priority for types of auditsa. Security

b. Pre-installation (major, minor, fix-pack?)

c. Post-installation (compare against snapshot)

d. Health Checks

e. Performance Benchmarks

f. Existing tools/reports

Reporting Engineg. Comparison over time

h. Comparison across servers/environments

Benchmarking and Analysisi. Version specific?

j. Company industry?

k. Environment size?

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Infrastructure

o Disk Spaceo TCP Settingso Local Security Policyo Network Adaptero Environment Variableso User Account Controlo Power Management

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Health

o Essbase Reference Appo HFM Reference Appo Planning Reference App

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Benchmarks

o Databaseo Disk IOo Network IOo Web/App server performance

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