Get everything you need to know to make the best use of the Cireson Portal with the expert himself, Travis Wright. From installation to configuration and a review of security how-tos, to deployment topologies for high availability, Travis will walk you through all sorts of Portal goodness over the course of two customer webinars - designed to get you on track and in line with best practices. AGENDA: -Explore deployment topologies for high availability -An examination of best practices for redundancy and -backup/recovery -Q&A session

1. Cireson Support Webinars
Travis Wright
Director of Product Management
High Availability for the Cireson Portal

2. Agenda
High Availability for ServiceManagement DB
High Availability for Cache Builder & Web Site

3. Review - Components & Communication
Cireson Portal
See previous Cireson Support Webinar – Installing the Cireson Portal:
https://vimeo.com/124985873

4. Deployment Topologies
Cireson Portal
SQL Server
Web Server

5. ServiceManagement Database Storage
Redundancy
Use RAID 1+0 (or 5)
Small/Medium
Enterprise

6. Using SQLAlways On Availability Groups
SMr
SMt
Note: SQL AO AG is only supported in v3.6+

7. Configuring SQLAO AG Connection
Either specify your AO AG instance at setup time or you can
change it in the web.config or cache builder config file
Web.config – C:inetpubCiresonPortalweb.config
Cache Builder config – C:inetpubCiresonPortalbinCireson.CacheBuilder.WindowsService.exe.config
Add a ConnectionTimeout to your connection string:
Server=sql;Database=ServiceManager;Trusted_Connection=True;Connection Timeout=150;
If you are connecting to an Always On Availability Group in Azure
you will need to change your connection string after installing the
Cireson Portal to point to the AO AG instance and use SQL
authentication instead of Windows authentication
Server=tcp:CLOUD SERVICE ENDPOINT;Database=ServiceManagement;User
ID=USERNAME;Password=PASSWORD;Trusted_Connection=False;Connection Timeout=150;

8. Web Farm

9. Distribution Options
SCSM MS
Cireson Portal Web Site
Cache Builder (Active)
SCSM MS
Workflow role
Cireson Portal Web Site
Cache Builder (Stopped)
If your SCSM MS hosting workflows is near constantly using 25% of total CPU
we recommend deploying a dedicated SCSM workflow management server
If you are installing the Cireson Cache Builder Service on a secondary server
set it to be disabled after installation:
Cireson Cache Builder can only be running on one server at a time.
2…n servers in farm

10. What’s Next?
What do you want to see next?
Recordings
Check out the Team Cireson Vimeo Channel:
http://www.vimeo.com/teamcireson
Thank You!!

11. Q&A