Managing and Monitoring the Microsoft Application Platform

Damir Bersinic Ruth MortonIT Pro Advisor IT Pro AdvisorMicrosoft Canada Microsoft Canadahttp://blogs.technet.com/canitpro http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers

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Agenda

Application InfrastructureMonitoring Application TiersHandling Software UpdatesBackup and Recovery

Microsoft Application Platform Stack

Application Infrastructure

Monitoring Application Tiers

Why monitor?Determine if something is brokenDetermine if something is not performing wellDetermine if something will become an issue

What to monitor?Operating system and network?IIS and web tier componentsMiddle tier components and servicesDatabase tier and associated services?

Build-In Monitoring Tools

Web Tier (IIS 6)Performance MonitorLog Parser

Middle Tier (BizTalk Server 2006)BizTalk Administration ConsoleHealth and Activity Tracking (HAT)Business Application Monitoring (BAM)

Built-In Monitoring Tools

Data Tier (SQL Server 2005)Performance MonitorDynamic Management Views (DMVs)Management Studio ReportsSQL Server Profiler

DemonstrationUsing Log Parser to create a web log reportBizTalk Server Monitoring Tools SQL Server Management Studio reports

System Center Operations Manager 2007

End-to-End Service ManagementSDM-based system and health modelsDistributed application supportEnd-user perspective monitoring

Best of breed for WindowsOver 50 Management Packs (MPs)Agentless Exception Monitoring

Robust reporting and auditing

Reporting Data Warehouse - Long term data store - Supports high availability

What’s New?• Multiple management groups• Custom data warehouse

name

Reporting Server - Provides reports - Installed on SQL Reporting Services SP1

What’s New?• Console Integration

Agent - Used to monitor servers and clients

What’s New?• Leverages Active Directory

integration• Can be deployed using SMS,

Sys-Prep or Command Shell

OpsManager 2007 Components

New OpsManager 2007 Components

• Audit Database• - Stores security events• - Supports high availability

• Audit Collector• - Collects security events from the Audit Collection enabled agents

• Web Console Server• - Thin client much like OWA• - View topology diagrams and performance charts• - Run Tasks • Gateway Server• - Monitor agents in the untrusted domain• - Requires certificates

Distributed Application Monitoring Challenges

Visualizing distributed application structureDiscovering objects and componentsAssociating objects to componentsMonitoring “black box” applicationsSimulating users accessing distributed applications

DemonstrationUsing Distributed Application DesignerMonitoring Data Sources (SQL Server)Monitoring a Web Application

Handling Updates

Application UpdatesXcopy deployment of ASP.NET 2.0 updatesScripting multi-server deployment of updates

Operating System and Core Software UpdatesWSUS and SMSAutomatic Updates for servers should not be enabled

Hardware UpdatesUse availability and scalability techniques

Backup and Recovery

Built-in technologiesWindows Backup

Must use System State Backup to save IIS Metabase

SQL Server BackupMulti-server backup jobs available in SP2

BizTalk Server 2006 backupRelies on ensuring database is backed up

DemonstrationConfiguring multi-server backups jobs in SQL Server 2005 SP2

DPM v2

Clients

ActiveDirectory

File Serverswith Tape Library

DPM Servers

Online Snapshots

Exchange ServersSQL Servers

SharePoint Serversincluding clusters

Disk-based Recovery

Offline tape

Tape-based Archive

DPM v2

Continuous Data Protection for Windows Application and File ServersRapid & Reliable Recovery from disk instead of tapeAdvanced Technology for enterprises of all sizes

v2

Demonstration Installing DPM Agents on serversBacking up SQL Server data with DPM v2

Session Summary

System Center Operations Manager 2007 allows for monitoring of all elements of a distributed applicationPlanning for software and application updates ensures success and reduces downtimeSystem Center Data Protection Manager v2 allows for backup of file and database data

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