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Server Monitoring from the
Cloud
Windows / Linux Servers
Site24x7 Webinar
21st, Oct 2015

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• Introduction to Site24x7
• Server monitoring from the Cloud
• Working principle and prerequisite
• Windows & Linux Server monitoring
• IIS, SQL, MS Exchange Server monitoring
• VMware monitoring
• Security
• Upcoming Features
Agenda

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Windows & Linux Monitoring

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For all our Site24x7 location servers - we do monitoring using Site24x7
Monitor your remote branch office servers using - Site24x7 Server Agent

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Server monitoring from the Cloud

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Working Principle

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Prerequisites
• Windows
• RAM - 512 MB
• Processor Speed - 1.0GHz
• Disk Space - 30 MB
• Windows version XP and above
• Linux
• glibc version - 2.5
• Debian, Ubuntu,CentOS, RedHat, Madriva, Fedora, Suse, Amazon
Linux, Gentoo

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> Windows
- Metrics are captured with the help of Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) and Windows API
> Linux
- Metrics are captured using the commands top, df, free, ps.
Discovery

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• CPU Utilization
• by Processor, by Core, S/W and H/W Interrupts and Context switches
• Memory Utilization
• Used memory, Free Memory and Memory Pages(In/Out/Fault)
• Disk Utilization
• Individual Disk Utilization, Disk(I/O), Disk reads/writes
• Processes & Services
• CPU, Memory, Instances, Thread count, Handle count
• Network
• Speed, Packets, Data Transmitted & Received
• Resources
• Port, URL
• Event logs/Syslogs
• Analyze and view logs
Metrics Monitored

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Device snapshot

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CPU dashboard

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Memory dashboard

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Disk dashboard

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Services and process monitoring
Resource monitoring

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Server Traffic Monitoring

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Event log monitoring

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Server - Root Cause Analysis

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IIS Monitoring

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Microsoft IIS web server monitoring for
unparalleled performance

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• Windows Process Activation Services (WAS)
• World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3svc)
• Registry key query to confirm the IIS version
• Requires IIS version 7.0 and above
• Requires .Net version 3.0 and above.
Discovery

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Metrics monitored
• Sites
• Status & Binding
• Application
• Active Application Details
• Session & Cache Details.
• Application Pools
• Active Application Pool Details
• CLR Details

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IIS Server dashboard

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Sites on IIS server

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Applications dashboard

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Application pools

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MS SQL Monitoring

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Intelligent monitoring for top-notch
SQL performance and availability

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• Agent will look for "SQLSERVER%" service running on the Windows
Server
• Detect SQL version from registry
Discovery

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• Operations
• MS SQL Agent & Browser Service
• Active Connections
• Errors
• Transaction time
• Capacity Planning
• Memory & Buffer Management
• DevOps
• Lock & Latch Details
• Database
• Top Data Space Utilization & Log Space Utilization
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Metrics

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Operations

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Capacity Planning

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DevOps dashboard

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Database

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MS Exchange Monitoring

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Discovery
• Agent will look for MS Exchange service running on the Windows Server
• Supports Exchange Server 2007 and 2010

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MS Exchange Roles
• Mailbox
• Hub Transport
• Client Access
• Unified Messaging
• Edge Transport

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VMware Monitoring

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• On-Premise Poller
• Monitor your internal network/resources behind the firewall
• VMware vCenter
• Auto discover your entire virtual infrastructure
• VMware infrastructure
• Data Centers, Clusters, Resource Pools, ESX/ESXi, VMs
Discovery

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Working Principle

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• Visualize the vCenter infrastructure in a single view
• Data center, Cluster, ESX/ESXi hosts
• Performance Metrics
• CPU, Memory, Datastore, Network & Disk Utilization
• Hardware Metrics
• Monitor disk failures and Voltage problems
Metrics

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vCenter dashboard

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ESX/ESXi dashboard

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ESX/ESXi performance

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ESX/ESXi performance

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VM dashboard

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VM performance

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Complement your IT
Investments
Monitor your core application servers from outside data center

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Monitor ManageEngine's OpManager, ServiceDeskPlus and all ME applications
Server via Site24x7 for free

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The free Site24x7 monitoring service works with many of the most popular monitoring
products:
• ManageEngine
• HP
• Kaseya
• Nagios
• Solarwinds
• Ipswitch
to know more check out - https://www.site24x7.com/complement-your-it.html
Free Site24x7 Server monitoring service

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• Only outbound traffic no inbound traffic
• Secured Shell Connection on https with latest TLSv1.2 (Port: 443)
• Encrypted Connection
(TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, 128bit keys)
Security

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• Exchange 2013
• Log Monitoring
• File Monitoring
• Event Log Monitoring
• Directory Monitoring
• Biz Talk
• Share point
Upcoming Features

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• Enable Auto Upgrade to be on the latest agent
• Configure threshold on resource monitoring to get proactive notification.
• Enable RCA to get to know about the top processes that are consuming
CPU, memory, etc.
• Bulk Installation for Linux is done via Chef services.
• Bulk Installation for Windows is done in three ways
• Remote Commands
• Active Directory
• Custom Scripts
Best Practices

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Our Pricing Structure

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Email

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