monitoring a suse linux enterprise environment with system center operations manager
DESCRIPTION
Learn the architecture and how you can monitor a SUSE Linux Enterprise environment using cross-platform extensions, which will be part of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and the new Novell Linux Management Pack. The management pack extends the default cross-platform capability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and provides monitoring and management capability of key services running on SUSE Linux Enterprise.TRANSCRIPT
Monitoring a SUSE® Linux Enterprise Environment with System Center Operations Manager
Alex DanoyanDistinguished EngineerNovell, [email protected]
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Agenda
Overview
Features
Architecture
Demo
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Customer's Challenge
• Linux servers are hosting applications that are critical to their daily business operations
• The ability to be alerted of an issue in real time and quickly stop, start, or restart a particular service without wading through a number of disparate tools is the key to reducing or eliminating expensive downtime
• Many customers with heterogeneous environments are suffering from “console sprawl” and use a variety of technologies and products, often ad hoc, to handle the non-Windows systems and applications
• The result is an increase in time, complexity and ultimately cost to manage this heterogeneous mix of tools in their environment
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Target Customers
• SMB to large enterprise• Has Windows servers• Is using or planning to use Linux for mission
critical applications (downtime is costly)• Invested in Microsoft’s System Center
Operations Manager• Has IT resource limitations
(too many tasks, too few people)• Lacks Linux expertise experience • Operating under budget constraints
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Supported Platforms
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 and higher
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
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Novell® Linux Management PackFeatures
• Packaged as self-extractable executable Installed directly into Operations Manager 2007
State monitoring for all Linux services
How Delivered
Start/Stop/Restart
State monitoring for all Linux services State monitoring for all Linux services
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Novell® Linux Management Pack Features (Continued)
• BIND/DNS. List of allocated DNS zones. Alerts
• DHCP Server. List of allocated DHCP subnets. Alerts
• SAMBA. List of shares, users, connections, sessions.
• NFS server. List of connections to NFS mount. Alerts
• LDAP server (OpenLDAP). List of active connections. Alerts
• Print server (CUPS). Alerts
• Firewall (SUSEfirewall2). Rule chains. Rules. Alerts.
In depth monitoring of the following:
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Novell® Linux Management Pack Integrated with Novell Support AdvisorIntegrated self-help tool
• Automated support and
diagnostics for SUSE®
Linux Enterprise Server,
Open Enterprise Server
(Linux) and associated
products
• Provides streamlined
way to perform proactive
and reactive system
diagnostic tasks in a
local, secure and
automated fashion
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Architecture
• Microsoft System Center: A management service and GUI
• Management Pack: An XML document that describes what is being managed, how to access it, what data is collected and what to do with it, also defines GUI.
• CIMOM: Common Information Model Object Manager. Based on OpenPegasus 2.9 with WS-Man stack.
• Providers: Code that “collects” the data and exposes it through the CIMOM
• Dependencies:– Microsoft SC OM 2007 R2 release
Systems CenterOperations Manager
Current and futureNovell® product
consumers
OpenWS-ManManagementPack (XML)
OpenPegasus CIMOM SFCB
CMPI Python IF
SCX CMPI providers Python providers
SUSE® / Red Hat Platform Novell SUSE Platform, RHELMicrosoft SC OM and SCX componentsNovell components
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Component Overview
OpsMgr
WS-Man
WS-Man
CIMOM
OpsMgrProviders
OSResources
Installer
MPsUI ExtensionAssemblies
ModulesDLL
OpsMgrSrv/UI
HealthService
SSHModules
WS-ManModules
SFTPModules
WinRMAPI
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Module Details
OpsMgr
WS-Man
WS-Man
CIMOM
OpsMgrProviders
OSResources
HealthService
SSHModules
WS-ManModules
SFTPModules
WinRM Putty Library
Enum
erate
Invoke
Get
Session
Execute Cm
d
Transfer Fi le
CIMOMOpenPegasuswith WS-Man
OpsMgrProviders
SSHDaemon
OSResources
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SCX Component Overview
OpsMgr
WS-Man
WS-Man
CIMOM
OpsMgrProviders
OSResources
RPM/depot/pkg Installer
WS-Manbinaries
Providerlibraries
CIMOMDaemon
OpenPegasuswith WS-Man
OSProviderMemoryProviderProcessProviderLogfile
Provider
CPUProvider
DiskProviderNetworkProviderSyslog
Provider
ScriptProvider
Ext APIProvider
File transProvider
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SCX Management Pack Hierarchy
Microsoft.LinuxSUSE.Library
Microsoft.Linux
RedHat.Library
Microsoft.HPUX.11iv2
Microsoft.HPUX.11iv3
Microsoft.Solaris.9
Microsoft.Solaris.10
Microsoft.AIX.5.3
Microsoft.Linux.
SLES.9
Microsoft.Linux.
SLES.10
Microsoft.Linux.
RHEL.4
Microsoft.Linux.
RHEL.5
Microsoft.Linux.Library
Microsoft.HPUX.Library
Microsoft.Solaris.Library
Microsoft.AIX.
Library
Microsoft.AIX.6.1
Microsoft.Linux.Library
SystemCenter.Libraries
System.Libraries
WS-Man.Libraries
MP for Cross-platformDependency on SCOM 2007 R2
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Novell® Linux MP Component Overview
OpsMgr
WS-Man
WS-Man
CIMOM
NLMPProviders
SLES
ISO imageInstaller
WS-Manbinaries
Providerlibraries
CIMOMDaemon
OpenPegasuswith WS-Man
CUPSProvider
DNSProvider
OpenLDAPProvider
NFSProvider
FirewallProviderDHCP
ProviderSAMBAProvider
ScriptProvider
Ext APIProvider
File transProvider
Components for Cross-platformSCOM 2007 R2Outside dependencyNovell components
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Novell® Management Pack Hierarchy
Novell.Linux.
Service.ABC
Novell.Linux.
Service.XYZ
Novell.AgentExtension.SLES10
Novell.Agent.ExtensionSLES11
Novell.Linux.SLES10.Service.ABC
Novell.Linux.SLES11.Service.ABC
Novell.Linux.SLES10.Service.XYZ
Novell.Linux.SLES11.
Service.XYZ
Novell.Linux.Library
Microsoft.Linux.Library
SystemCenter.Libraries
System.Libraries
WS-ManLibraries
Novell MP ServicesDependency on SCOM 2007 R2
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Finding Linux Servers
In the Operations Manager console, open the Discovery Wizard…
…Enter IP address range or other parameters, and then click “OK”.
The process of finding Linux servers to monitor is automated…
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Installation
…the Linux Services Management Pack only requires installation of a lightweight plug-in delivered via the same SSH channel.
By leveraging System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross-Platform Extensions…
…and installation of the Novell® Linux Management Pack is simple
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The Linux Management Pack from Novell® monitors all services and 7 of them in depth
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One of the servers is in a critical state. Let’s use the Problem Path tool to find the root cause
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With inline tasks, we can take immediate action to restart the service …
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… without ever leaving the Operations Manager console
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Success!
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In this Health Explorer view, we get detailed information about the Samba service including information about the issue we resolved earlier
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In the Performance View, we can take advantage of graphing capabilities in Operations Manager …
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...to analyze service performance based on a number of pre-determined criteria
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DNS Service
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DHCP Service Performance
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Novell® Linux Management Pack Availability
Evaluation available from:http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=QD-rc_brurs~
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