Server Monitoring from the Cloud

Windows / Linux Servers

Site24x7 Webinar 21st, Oct 2015

• 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

Windows & Linux Monitoring

For all our Site24x7 location servers - we do monitoring using Site24x7

Monitor your remote branch office servers using - Site24x7 Server Agent

Server monitoring from the Cloud

Working Principle

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

> 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

• 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

Device snapshot

CPU dashboard

Memory dashboard

Disk dashboard

Services and process monitoring

Resource monitoring

Server Traffic Monitoring

Event log monitoring

Server - Root Cause Analysis

IIS Monitoring

Microsoft IIS web server monitoring for unparalleled performance

• 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

Metrics monitored

• Sites • Status & Binding

• Application• Active Application Details • Session & Cache Details.

• Application Pools• Active Application Pool Details• CLR Details

IIS Server dashboard

Sites on IIS server

Applications dashboard

Application pools

MS SQL Monitoring

Intelligent monitoring for top-notch SQL performance and availability

• Agent will look for "SQLSERVER%" service running on the Windows Server

• Detect SQL version from registry

Discovery

• 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

Operations

Capacity Planning

DevOps dashboard

Database

MS Exchange Monitoring

Discovery

• Agent will look for MS Exchange service running on the Windows Server

• Supports Exchange Server 2007 and 2010

MS Exchange Roles

• Mailbox

• Hub Transport

• Client Access

• Unified Messaging

• Edge Transport

VMware Monitoring

• 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

Working Principle

• 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

vCenter dashboard

ESX/ESXi dashboard

ESX/ESXi performance

ESX/ESXi performance

VM dashboard

VM performance

Complement your IT Investments

Monitor your core application servers from outside data center

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

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

• 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

• Exchange 2013

• Log Monitoring

• File Monitoring

• Event Log Monitoring

• Directory Monitoring

• Biz Talk

• Share point

Upcoming Features

• 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

Our Pricing Structure

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