Learn how to monitor your Windows/Linux server availability and performance from the cloud and gain insight into metrics that matter the most.

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

2. • 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

4. Windows & Linux Monitoring

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

6. Server monitoring from the Cloud

7. Working Principle

8. 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

9. > 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

10. • 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

11. Device snapshot

12. CPU dashboard

13. Memory dashboard

14. Disk dashboard

15. Services and process monitoring
Resource monitoring

16. Server Traffic Monitoring

17. Event log monitoring

18. Server - Root Cause Analysis

20. IIS Monitoring

21. Microsoft IIS web server monitoring for
unparalleled performance

22. • 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

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

24. IIS Server dashboard

25. Sites on IIS server

26. Applications dashboard

27. Application pools

28. MS SQL Monitoring

29. Intelligent monitoring for top-notch
SQL performance and availability

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

31. • 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
>
Metrics

32. Operations

33. Capacity Planning

34. DevOps dashboard

35. Database

36. MS Exchange Monitoring

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

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

39. VMware Monitoring

40. • 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

41. Working Principle

42. • 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

43. vCenter dashboard

44. ESX/ESXi dashboard

45. ESX/ESXi performance

46. ESX/ESXi performance

47. VM dashboard

48. VM performance

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

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

51. 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

52. • 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

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

54. • 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

55. Our Pricing Structure

56. Knowledge Base : https://support.site24x7.com/portal/home
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