Managing and Monitoring the Microsoft Application Platform Damir Bersinic Ruth Morton IT Pro Advisor Microsoft Canada

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Agenda Application Infrastructure Monitoring Application Tiers Handling Software Updates Backup and Recovery

Microsoft Application Platform Stack

Application Infrastructure

Monitoring Application Tiers Why monitor? Determine if something is broken Determine if something is not performing well Determine if something will become an issue What to monitor? Operating system and network? IIS and web tier components Middle tier components and services Database tier and associated services?

Build-In Monitoring Tools Web Tier (IIS 6) Performance Monitor Log Parser Middle Tier (BizTalk Server 2006) BizTalk Administration Console Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) Business Application Monitoring (BAM)

Built-In Monitoring Tools Data Tier (SQL Server 2005) Performance Monitor Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) Management Studio Reports SQL Server Profiler

Demonstration  Using Log Parser to create a web log report  BizTalk Server Monitoring Tools  SQL Server Management Studio reports

System Center Operations Manager 2007 End-to-End Service Management SDM-based system and health models Distributed application support End-user perspective monitoring Best of breed for Windows Over 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 structure Discovering objects and components Associating objects to components Monitoring “black box” applications Simulating users accessing distributed applications

Demonstration  Using Distributed Application Designer  Monitoring Data Sources (SQL Server)  Monitoring a Web Application

Handling Updates Application Updates Xcopy deployment of ASP.NET 2.0 updates Scripting multi-server deployment of updates Operating System and Core Software Updates WSUS and SMS Automatic Updates for servers should not be enabled Hardware Updates Use availability and scalability techniques

Backup and Recovery Built-in technologies Windows Backup Must use System State Backup to save IIS Metabase SQL Server Backup Multi-server backup jobs available in SP2 BizTalk Server 2006 backup Relies on ensuring database is backed up

Demonstration  Configuring multi-server backups jobs in SQL Server 2005 SP2

DPM v2 Clients ActiveDirectory File Servers with Tape Library DPM Servers Online Snapshots Exchange Servers SQL Servers SharePoint Servers including clusters Disk-based Recovery Offline tape Tape-based Archive DPM v2 Continuous Data Protection for Windows Application and File Servers Rapid & Reliable Recovery from disk instead of tape Advanced Technology for enterprises of all sizes v2 v2

Demonstration  Installing DPM Agents on servers  Backing up SQL Server data with DPM v2

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

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