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Case Study: DigitalGlobe Images the World and Assures Services with Unified Infrastructure Management Brad Morse

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Senior Staff Software Developer

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Agenda Introduction • Who is DigitalGlobe? System Health & Monitoring • Why CA Unified Infrastructure Management • Architecture & Implementation Strategy • Cost Avoidance & Cost Savings • Solving the Complex Problems


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Who is DigitalGlobe? FIVE SATELLITES PROVIDE ROBUST EARTH IMAGES • DigitalGlobe owns and operates the worlds most agile and

sophisticated constellation of commercial earth imaging satellites.

• On a daily basis, DigitalGlobe is capable of seeing more of the earth than any other commercial provider. Industry leader in archive content, and refresh rate.

• Complementing the responsive and flexible imaging capabilities are two other core competencies: value-added geospatial information and geospatial predictive analytics. Leveraging these capabilities in concert with research and development labs allows DigitalGlobe to routinely produce new and innovative solutions.


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• Enterprise Solution - Replace Open Source Tools - Initial Requirements - Selection Process

• Environment Complexities - High Performance Computing (HPC) - Private Cloud - Web Services - Remote Sites - Security

Why CA Unified Infrastructure Management?


Architecture

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• Terminology - Hub (UIM Server) - Robot (UIM Agent) - Probe (Module)

• Hub Infrastructure

- Primary / Secondary - Tunnel Hubs - Relay Hubs - Deploy Hubs

• Dedicated Robots

- Network - Storage - Datacenter

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Agentless Solutions (Generalized)

Agentless Solution

Remote Collector

Load Balancer

Web Server

Web Server Database

Server

Client

- Agentless solutions are generally out-of-band. - System health is derived from the perspective of the central collection point.

SNMP HTTP Telnet SSH RDP WMI ICMP FTP LDAP NTP DNS


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- Agents can be used to perform in-band health checks of complex systems. - System health is directly from the perspective of servers within the system.

Agent Based Solution (CA UIM)

Additionally, CA UIM agents can interrogate the local system in the same way a remote collector does in an agentless solution.

Agentless Solution

Remote Collector

Load Balancer

Web Server

Web Server Database

Server

Client

This reduces external variables that can interrupt or cause false-positives in agentless solutions.


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Best of Both Worlds

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Agentless Solution

Remote Collector

Load Balancer

Web Server

Web Server Database

Server

Client

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CA UIM can be used as a hybrid solution; combining remote collection points with select installations of agents.


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Standardize Monitoring Thresholds and Alerts - Every host will get a standard set of monitoring configuration regardless of

purpose • Windows host monitoring • Unix/Linux host monitoring • Network devices • Storage devices • Virtual hosts vs. physical hosts

Define Server Roles and Develop Monitoring Profiles - Identify groups of servers that serve a single function or provide a service - Develop configuration templates that can be applied to all hosts in a group

Implementation - Phases - Migration

Strategy


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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC)

Standard Monitoring

Individual Node Status Node Utilization (Used Capacity)

Controller Cluster Health Top 100 Systems by Paging Activity


Solving the Complex Problems

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VISUALIZATION OF METRICS FOR REVENUE GENERATING SYSTEMS

Processing Throughput

Processing Performance

Processing Rate


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Return On Investment – Case Study TRADITIONAL MONITORING MONITORING WITH CA UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

• More system uptime for acceptance testing effort

• Risk mitigation

• Dynamic Dashboards serve as Health Check

• Faster response time to system failure

• Proactive notifications for pending failures

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