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Hands-On Labs: Introduction to CA UnifiedInfrastructure Management
Robert Vacante
DevOps
: API Management and Application Development
CA Technologies
Principal Product Manager
DO5X2 8L
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#CAWorld
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Abstract
This session will cover the basics of
Infrastructure Management (CA UIM)you build your knowledge on the gene
concepts, components and features th
UIM offers. We will also cover the maj
features that are now available withinUIM 8.35 release.
RobertVacante
CA Technologies
Principal Product
Manager
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Agenda
THE CA UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
HOW CA UIM WORKS
VISUALIZING YOUR DATA
DISCOVERING YOUR NETWORK
DEPLOYING A ROBOT
DEPLOYING AND CONFIGURING A PROBE TO GATHER DATA
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Key DriversMandates for the Solution
Lightweig
delivers entean
A single, comprehensive
and unified IT
monitoring solution
A
apps
Deploys robots to 100
servers in less than three
minutes
Simple
PowerfulFast
Unified
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CA Unified Infrastructure Management Benefits
Eliminate complexity.
Increase worker
productivity.
Better utilize technology.
Make your job easier.
Put customer needs first.
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Power & Payback of Unified MonitoringRapid Time to Value & Demonstrable ROI
*Source: IDC White Paper, sponsored by CA Technologies, Unified Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Increases Availability, MTTR and IT Staff Produ
2013 ** Source: Tech Validate Survey
4X IT Staff
ProductivityImprovements
Doubles
Productivity &Saves $250,000
Replaced Five
Monitoring Tools,Improved MTTR
Global Hotel Chain**Regional Bank* US Data Center
Provider*
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Key Capabilities
Multi-Tenant Customizable
Dashboards &
Reports
Highly Sc
Plug & PlayArchitecture
Unified Trending& Root Cause
Analysis
PowerfuVisualiza
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Monitoring best practices:
Avoid the temptation to use the full capabilities
Take an iterative product-release approach.
Increase customer value.
Focus on what is actionable.
Baseline approach.
Adherence to the principles of monitoring governanc
Large databases
Alarm floods
Users losing trust
Overall unmanageability of the system
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What you need:
Me
trends
Tools to help you understand and
visualize how your infrastructure is
performing now and in the pastt
pinp
th
Alerts to inform you of situations
requiring attentionBoth problemsnow and warnings of potential
situations in the future
Troubleshoot
PlanAlert
Visualize
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What you want:
Something ImportInfrastruct
UIM
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140+ Probes
Servers
Storage Virtualization
Networks
End-to-End Response
SDKs
Applications
Cloud/SaaS Databases
iSeries/as400
Gateways
HA/Clusters
Marketplace
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UIM
Something ImportInfrastruct
HUB
ROBOT
ROBOT
REPORTING
DASHBOARDS
ALARMS
PROBES
PROBE: Collects data from
services or applica
ROBOT: Provides connectivto connect to UIM
HUB: Central point of co
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Technical Architecture
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Domain
Domain
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Exercises:
Discover the network.
Deploy a robot.
Deploy the CDM probe.
Configure the CDM probe.
Visualize the monitoring
data.
UIM
HUB
ROBOT
PROBES
Something ImpoInfrastru
ROBO
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Discovery
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Discovery WizardUse the Discovery Wizard to set up the automated discovery of network d
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Authentication Tabs
Contains credentials for the discovery_agent probe t
and gather necessary information
Click New Credentials and define appropriate fields
enable the creation, editing, viewing and deletion of authentication pro
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Ranges Page
You can assign credentials to a range.
Ranges can be defined for specific discovery_agent p
specifies the portions of the network to discover:
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Schedule Page
Scheduled discovery does not interrupt a running dis
But that scheduled discovery is ignored
Run discovery stops currently running discovery
schedules single or recurring discoveries.
!
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You try it!
Exercise 1: Discover devices in your network.
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Robot Deployment
A t ti R b t D l t
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Automatic Robot Deployment
Deploy robots to all or selected members of a group. Deploy robot to specific system.
Basic or advanced search for systems to deploy robot
Import XML list of systems.
Use USM to deploy automatically to one or more systems
Y t it!
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You try it!
Exercise 2: Deploy a robot to a server to be monitore
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Probe Deployment
Package Archi e
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Package Archive
Local Archive
This archive resides on the hub, therefore the list will be theall robots connected to the hub.
There can be more than one version of a package on the loc
Web Archive Displays the list of probe packages on the CA UIM support a
You must have a valid login and password for the CA UIM suto download any package.
encompasses the local archive and Web archive.
You must deploy and configure probes to enable event and performance monitoring o
Local Archive
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Local Archiveshows all downloaded probe packages.
Web Archive
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Web Archiveincludes all probe packages available to be downloaded from the CA UIM
If you deploy a package from the Web Archive, it is first automatically
downloaded to the Local Archive before it is deployed to the robot.
Distribution Activity
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Distribution Activity is a log of probe package distributions along with the status of each dist
Packages can be deployed individually or in groups.
Probe Deployment
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Probe Deploymentdrags probes from the Archive to the Target.
When a probe is dropped on a hub, domain or group, the probe is
deployed to applicable subordinate robots.
You drag a probe from
the local archive.
and drop it onto
the target.
You try it!
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You try it!
Exercise 3: Deploy the CDM probe to the server.
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Probe Configuration
Probe Configuration
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Probe Configurationconfigures thresholds, severity and publishing of QoS data.
You try it!
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You try it!
Exercise 4: Configure the CDM probe.
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Visualization
Viewing Monitored Data:
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Viewing Monitored Data:
Built-in, easily customizable views to spot trends, opt
resources, etc. You will view the following portlets:
Device, alarm, metric and group data in the USM
Servers in the Unified Dashboards
View Monitored Data
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View Monitored DataSelect Device in the Navigation Pane, View QoS Data
To view the alarm for
a device, you can
click the Alarms icon
or the Alarms tab.
Alarms Tab
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Alarms TabView details, history and metrics of an alarm.
To view details, history
and metrics about an
alarm, you click the
More button.
The Actions
menu provides
available alarm
actions.
Alarm View
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a edisplays all current alarms including those not associated with a group o
Metrics and Groups Tabs
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Unified Dashboard Portlets
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To view the drilldown
report for a metric,
you double-click its
metric.
To view the drilldown report
for a server for a particular
metric, you click its name.
Viewing Monitored Data
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The following screenshots are examples of drilldown reports you can gene
Drilldown Reports Generated in the Unified Dashboards Portlet
Drilldown Reports
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Viewing Monitored Data in a Report
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You try it!
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Exercise 5: View the data being collected.
Extra Credit:
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PRD Dashboard
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