Server and Application Monitor for the US Air Force
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The webinar covered SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor software for monitoring servers and applications. Key capabilities included starting, stopping, and restarting services, terminating rogue processes, rebooting servers, monitoring hardware, storage, and network interfaces. Integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager was also discussed. The webinar demonstrated the software and discussed deployment architecture, multi-vendor hardware monitoring, and submitting feature requests.
Server and Application Monitor for the US Air Force
- 1. 1 Federal Webinar Server & Application Monitor for the US Air Force 23 April 2013 Edward Bender, Lead Federal Sales Engineer, SolarWinds Sean Martinez, Federal Sales Engineer, SolarWinds ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 2. 2 Agenda » Welcome/Introductions » Remediation abilities including: start, stop & restart services, terminate rogue process, and reboot servers » Deployment architecture for enterprise scalability » Multi-vendor hardware monitoring for HP® & Dell® blade chassis systems » Windows® volume mount points monitoring » Windows storage performance monitoring metrics » Windows Server network interface monitoring » Integration with Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 » Q&A 2 ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 3. 3 Real Time Process Explorer » Found in the Management Resource. » Monitor and End Processes. » Node must be monitored via WMI in order to end processes. » Permission to End processes set in the User Account – SAM Settings. 3 ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 4. 4 Service Control Manager » Found in the Management Resource. » Similar in function to the Real Time Process Explorer. » Start/Stop/Restart and Manage services. » Node must be monitored via WMI. » Permission to Start/Stop/Restart services set in the User Account – SAM Settings. 4 ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 5. 5 Reboot Server » Found in the Management Resource. » Reboot the server. » Permission to reboot servers set in the User Account – SAM Settings. » Node must be monitored via WMI. 5 ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 6. 6 Deployment Architecture for Enterprise Scalability » Install remote pollers for easy monitoring of remote locations » For more Architecture options, you can search "product blog orion architecture“—top result will take you to our other options. ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 6
- 7. 7 Multi-Vendor Hardware Monitoring for HP & Dell Blade Chassis Systems » Power Supply, Fan Speed, Temperature, and more… ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 7
- 8. 8 Windows Volume Mount Points Monitoring » Mount and Monitor mount points. ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 8
- 9. 9 Windows Storage Performance Monitoring Metrics » Disk Latency, Disk Queue Length, Disk IOPS, For both Virtual Disks and Physical Disks ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 9
- 10. 10 Windows Server Network Interface Monitoring » Monitor interface metrics with WMI such as Bandwidth usage & errors. » WMI Polled Interfaces are considered part of the SAM module and do not impact your NPM Interfaces License. ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 10
- 11. 11 Server & Application Monitor Demo You can view this demo again by going into Solarwinds.com, select Server & Application Monitor as a Product and select Test Drive Demo ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- 12. 12 Integration with Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 » Alerts sent from SAM to SCOM and Performance data sent from SAM to SCOM automatically. » With SAM, you create nested maps that can provide an “at- a-glance” high-level status of critical servers and applications, while also supporting interactive drill-down capability which is all accessible from a standard web browser. » Available to Customers with Active maintenance you can download the SCOM connector in your Customer Portal under License & Maintenance> Additional Components ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 12
- 13. 13 How do I submit Feature Requests? » Thwack.solarwinds.com > Ideas & Feature Requests SolarWinds® Customers can vote to add the features into future releases. » Support » Sales ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 13
- 14. 14 ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. CAC/ Smart Card support for Federal Customers » Orion® products can all be configured to use DOD CAC or PIV card to login: KBA available from SolarWinds on how to configure IIS for this (search “CAC WEB Authentication” on SolarWinds web site Works for all Orion modules: • NPM, NCM, NTA, UDT, WPM, SAM, VNQM, UDT, Orion Patches tab, IPAM » Dameware® supports DOD CAC out of the box. New Hot Fix Released for support for multiple Certificates on same card 14
- 15. 15 ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Learn More » Watch a short demo video: http://www.solarwinds.com/sedemo » Download a free trial: http://www.solarwinds.com/downloads/ » Call: 877-946-3751 » Email: federalsales@solarwinds.com » Email: Our Government Reseller: solarwinds@dlt.com 15
- 16. 16 Q&A 16 Contact Us Call: 877-946-3751 Email: federalsales@solarwinds.com Email our Government Reseller DLT: solarwinds@dlt.com ©2013 SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Editor's Notes
- #15: Specifically, you will learn about some of the more important features that have been added to the SolarWinds products in the last few years and how Federal customers typically use them, including: Web Performance Monitoring Service and Process Monitoring VM to Host to Cluster Monitoring / Mapping VM Datastore to LUN to Storage Pool Monitoring / Mapping And others topics of interest to the Federal community
- #17: Note: Image is from the Microsoft Clip Art Library