This document discusses how DevOps teams can use Site24x7's agent-based server monitoring for Windows servers. It outlines key capabilities like monitoring server resources, Windows applications and services, network interfaces, and custom plugins. Site24x7 offers out-of-the-box monitoring of common Windows applications like IIS and allows starting/stopping application pools. It also provides a REST API for automating monitoring and maintenance. Site24x7 can help complement other tools like ManageEngine products by self-monitoring their servers.

1. DevOps for
Windows admins
Site24x7
Rex Peter

2. > Challenges faced by the infrastructure and application teams
> Agent-based server monitoring flexibility
> Performance metrics with agent-based server monitoring
> Out-of-the-box Windows applications monitoring
> Troubleshoot each of your apps at the code level: IIS |DevOps
> Create your own application monitoring tool with plug-ins | DevOps
> REST API for DevOps
> Complement your ManageEngine Server
Agenda

3. > Need to offer high availability on the servers and network.
> Application's end-user experience should be excellent.
> Identify slowness in application / servers and optimize it periodically.
> MTTR : Identify issues faster and fix them.
Challenges faced by the infrastructure and application teams

4. Monitoring from the cloud - Agent based
Server monitoring

5. • Agent based monitoring
• Supports Windows and Linux machines
• Purely outbound communications for security purpose.
• Auto discovery of Windows applications and helps DevOps to troubleshoot code level.
• No credentials required to monitor performance metrics.
• Proxy settings can be configured specific to each server

6. Easy ways to deploy agents in bulk
Windows Linux

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Remote servers monitored using Site24x7 server agent
• Distributed Remote
Servers
• No need for dedicated
network
• Helps Centralized
monitoring
• Real-time monitoring
• Instant alerts

8. Monitored with Site24x7 server agents

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Server resources monitored
• CPU utilization,
CPU by core
• Memory utilization,
Memory break up,
emory pages
• Disk utilization,
Individual disks
• Windows Service /
Processes
• Event / Syslogs
• Rx/Tx statistics

10. Monitor your core application's services and processes
Start or
stop

11. Start /
Stop
Take action from
your native Site24x7
mobile app:
• iOS
• Android

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Root cause analysis report during downtime
Top processes
by:
 CPU
 Memory

13. Top processes by CPU and memory while the server's down

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Monitors the server interfaces
Status of the interface | Rx or tx traffic | Errors | Bandwidth utilization

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Network monitoring capabilities with Site24x7
Auto-Discovery of your
entire network.
Interface Monitoring
Supported Device Types:
Storage
WAN Accelerators Switches
Printers
Wireless
Routers
Firewalls
UPS
Load Balancers

16. Out-of-the-box monitoring with Site24x7 server agents.
Windows applications

17. Preconfigured Site24x7 Windows app monitoring

18. Server + IIS + APM Insight
Application monitoring
for DevOps

19. IIS server monitoring
Start/Stop
a site

20. Start/Sto
p App
pools
IIS server app pools with actions

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IIS server: App resource statistics
IIS server app pools:
• Memory usage
• Network usage
• Exceptions

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Enhance your IIS monitoring with APM Insight
Toggle
for APM

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Learn which traces are slowing down your IIS apps: Troubleshoot

24. Understand how your IIS apps work for users: Real user monitoring
Identify based on:
• Response time
• Device
• Browser
• ISP
• Geography

25. DevOps
Create your own
monitoring using plugins

26.  Out of box Site24x7 plugins support in Github repository for all the above apps.
 Create your own custom Windows & Linux based plugins monitor using Python, Shell, DLL, Batch, PowerShell, and VBScript.
 Site24x7 Integrate with 4000+ Nagios Plugins available, it reduces the effort for you to create your own plugins script
 Set threshold values for individual attributes in a plugin for immediate notifications if the set values are exceed.
 View the performance charts for multiple plugins across servers in a single, understandable chart.
Site24x7 plugins | Create your own monitoring: DevOps

27. Two custom scripts:
1. Hardware metrics (VBScript)
Cooling status, thermal status, power status...
2. Operating system objects (PowerShell script)
Event, threads,process..
Site24x7 plug-ins demo

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Hardware metrics with VBScript

29. Hardware metrics output in Site24x7

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Operating system objects with PowerShell scripts
• Events
• Mutexes
• Processes
• Sections
• Semaphores
• Threads

31. Operating system objects' output in Site24x7

32. Resource checks

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Monitor key resources on your server

34. Avoid application failure |Content check
Create checks to monitor
log files for specific
alarming text that has
the potential to crash the
application.
Ex: Outofmemory

35. File checks:
Access check | Permissions check | Size check | Last modified check
| Content check
Directory checks:
Size check | Subdirectory availability | File availability | Access check
| Permissions check
File and directory checks

36. "If you don’t have logs
available, you’re flying
blind."

37. Windows event log monitoring

38. Query the event logs from our server tools

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Event log rule monitoring
Get notified when
important events occur.
Monitor by:
• Event ID
• Severity
• Keyword

40. REST API
Achieve all the operations without going to the client

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API lets you:
• Add monitors into Site24x7
• Modify/delete/suspend
monitors
• Obtain availability and
response time graphs
• View current uptime status
and response time
• List the last 'x' downtimes of
all monitors
• Setup Schelde maintenance
• Obtain consolidated uptime
and performance reports
• Our New UI is bult over API
• Full API Documentation

42. Maintenance of a server in AWS
Schedule maintenance
by calling the Site24x7
API within your
application.
Shut down and start
up the script to avoid
false positives.

43. Site24x7
Complement your
ManageEngine server

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Monitor your ServiceDesk Plus server via Site24x7's server agent ServiceDesk
Plus admin
tab
Monitor from outside your
data center
Real-time heart beat checks
Instant notifications
Track service:
ManageEngine ServiceDesk
Process:
java.exe
postgres.exe

45. Self monitoring
Site24x7 can help self-
monitor any ManageEngine
product server for free.
• Monitor availability
• Resources
• Services and processes
• Get instant notifications
• Any IT management on-
premises products can be
monitored.

47. Thank you!
rex@zohocorp.com