CMG St. Louis

Stephen SoodulCharles Johnson

Metron – expert trusted partner

• IT capacity specialists

– Capacity planning since 1986

– athene® is a complete ITIL aligned CP software solution

– Adaption and evolution with the enterprise

– Customers worldwide – large and complex IT environments

• Part of the IT community

– Co-authored Capacity Planning specification for ITIL

– Heavily involved with CMG (Computer Measurement Group)

• Training, Consulting and support

– Deliver solutions with longevity and sustainability

360⁰ Capacity Management

NetworkNetwork

Features

• Breadth of target platform coverage (physical and virtual)

• Scalability to thousands of targets

• Consistent, easy to use software across all platforms

• Fully automated management reporting

– Many trending and performance reports “out-of-the-box” included

• Analytical modeling engine for applications, physical servers and VMs

• Open platform – integrates data from other sources

• Built on ITIL Capacity Management foundation

athene® architecture

7

athene® core

CMIS

(SQL)

Integrator

Control

Center

athene®

athene®

athene® Acquire

UNIXWindow

s &

Hyper-V

z/OS

zVMLinux Oracle SQL

VMwar

e

SAN

(EMC,

Netapp, HP,

etc)

Network Data

Application

(SCOM, SAP,

solarwinds,

etc.)

Business

Other

tools

e.g.

alerting

Pull: sFTP, SMB, FTP

Push (windows only): FTPs

athene® architecture

8

athene® core

CMIS

(SQL)

Integrator

Control

Center

Inside the VMsWindows or Linux Acquire

(Memory, Applications, Users, OS Paging)

Cloud Support

Private

SES

(Quotas,

Send

Statistics)

AWS, Azure

(VM counts,

CPU, Disk,

Network)

ELB, Route 53, VPC, SNS,

CloudFront

Capture Pack

Script /

Processing

Hybrid

athene® Data Collection

Methods of data collection– athene® Acquire

– Agentless (VMWare, Windows, SQL, IIS, Exchange)

– Framework

– Integrator (Solarwinds, business data, etc.)

All methods fully automated

All methods centrally managed

Metron Capture Packs

athene® Key Functions

Dashboard Analysis AdviceHotspot

Virtualization Business Trending Modeling

athene® Portal

12

athene® 10.30

Service View Dashboard

– Enterprise Service Capacity

– Single pane of glass

– Business aligned with “Time to Live” value

– Datacenter metrics

www.metron-athene.com Commercial in Confidence

Service View Dashboard

Roadmap: Athene®Strategic Intent: Optimizing IT Infrastructure Capacity whatever the Platform

LATEST PLANNED UNDER CONSIDERATION

RELEASES/FEATURES 10.30 (Q3-2017)

▪ ServiceView

▪ Single pane service capacity health views

▪ Early warning system▪ Aligned with business

change via Days to Live thresholds

▪ Short, Medium and Long Term forecasting

▪ Integrator - REST API ▪ AWS and Azure coverage▪ Greater enterprise data

coverage▪ Reduction in agent

deployment▪ Enhanced dashboard reporting and

automation▪ Increased dynamic date

options▪ Visual alerts for exception

and recurrence reports▪ Percentile and Highest

Hour per day aggregation▪ Dashboard auto-refresh

▪ Additional metrics for SQL, ZIIP CPU and z/OS DB2

11.00 (Q1-2018)▪ Concentrator

▪ athene© SaaS▪ Cross platform data push

via HTTPS ▪ PCI compliant

▪ ServiceView enhancements▪ Integrator metrics▪ User customizable

templates▪ Reporting Enhancements

▪ Pre-defined chart domain templates

▪ User Defined Metrics▪ CMDB Integration

▪ Enhanced user descriptions

▪ CMDB Integration▪ Dynamic service group creation▪ Auto target creation▪ Enhanced user descriptions

▪ One minute data capture▪ Global timezone support

▪ UTC data capture▪ Global service data comparisons

▪ Multi CMIS chart reporting▪ Database Health ▪ Docker and Linux containers support▪ Cost Optimization▪ Metrics as Thresholds▪ Portal charts/dashboards annotation▪ REST API export

▪ Feed into Business Value Dashboards▪ Aegis

▪ What if modeling tool for cross platform environments, including virtual clusters and cloud

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