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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

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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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2

3

4

5

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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

Email

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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p

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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g

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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p

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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