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Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

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Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

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Re: Impact of Infrastructure Automation Tools on Monitoring

berkay — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:56:41 -0000

Hi Matt,
The demo you had sounds very good. As you've also mentioned there are number of potential integration points between monitoring and infrastructure automation tools that would significantly increase the value of both sets of tools. I'm just beginning to explore them, and possibilities are indeed exciting.

Looking forward to learn more about your Chef integration when it becomes available!

Berkay

Re: Impact of Infrastructure Automation Tools on Monitoring

Matt Ray — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:28:53 -0000

Excellent post, some Zenoss users are already on this track. We've got integrations for Puppet (http://community.zenoss.org/do... and Cfengine (http://community.zenoss.org/do... and I'm working on the Chef integration (should have code available soon). Eventually the Zenoss cookbook for Chef should deploy a Zenoss server and automatically monitor the devices managed by Chef. One of the really exciting applications of tighter integration between infrastructure automation and monitoring is using the monitoring application to dynamically allocate or replace nodes in response to events (outages, heavy load, etc.). We demoed a bit of this at Velocity (Zenoss/Chef/Dyn) and should have another demo at OSCON.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

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Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

berkay — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:38 -0000

Agreed.
VMWare may be able to do more than bare metal jvm OS with Springsource, They can go further app the stack and create something like Google App Engine for the enterprise, without the limitations of GAE.

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

Bill — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:53:27 -0000

Spring is running on the JVM, just like JBoss etc. VMWare do not have to buy a Java framework to do JVM stuff.

VMWare could do a "bare metal" jvm os, and you could run Java app on top of that. You dont need Spring to do that.

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

williamlouth — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:27:09 -0000

Actually most of the other vendors such as Tivoli, HP and BMC do provide agents for the Java runtime though in most accounts they are disabled because of the large overhead they generally incur and the poor value delivered by what is collected. Tivoli has probably one of the worst track records in this regard followed by HP. Most customers buying into such products are also buying into the complete ITIL product management suite including help desks, cmdbs, slm, bsm,... which is completely out of the range & possibilities of Hyperic and its team.

You are probably right that Hyperic will target specifically Java now considering that SpringSource had indicated that they were going to do a complete rewrite which follows on from two other complete rewrites by JBoss and Hyperic itself. If a complete rewrite is underway then management would probably look to minimize risk and reduce the scope. That said I would not be surprised if Hyperic is not put to rest as VMware has already invested in tooling around its management console(s).

I still think we are a very long way away from are sort of automated dynamic provisioning until we can accurate collect and model the underlying software and system execution models.

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

berkay — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:04:25 -0000

William,

Thanks for the comment.Hyperic is typically compared to more generic monitoring tools like the ones I've mentioned above which typically don't have an agent on the box and rely on SNMP or WMI. SIGAR alone is a differentiator for Hyperic.

I understand your argument that deeper and more efficient insight into applications is needed to resolve scalability and performance problems (like provided by Jinspire)

By assigning CPU and memory, I was referring to elasticity rather than scalability/performance problem originating from the application. In a VMWare box with 32 CPUs and 128GB memory hosting multiple JVMs, VMWare can potentially change allocation of CPUs and memory to applications based on the load for each app, making better use of the available resources.

Re: Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions

williamlouth — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:45:53 -0000

"Hyperic is different than other solutions in the market it’s competing."

What exactly are you referring too? Hyperic is complete void of application interactions and largely relies on process level metrics (no context, no interaction, no activity chain, no correlation) published as MBeans and instrumented by developers of applications and technologies within the stack.

Assigning more cpu does not at all solve a scalability or performance problem in the cloud unless your are aware of the nature & profile of the activities (io bound, cpu bound, mixed) queued and how they interact (bottlenecks) with each other in competing for resources.

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

TwitterWP — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:08:18 -0000

This is very useful.

I have a client working with a "developer" who was saying how hard this was to do.

While not a developer myself i know the principles thanks for laying them out here.

Now I just need to find the time to write a spec to get this working so i can automate capture of Twitter WordPress related plugins etc.

Thanks for taking the time.

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

berkay — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:54:58 -0000

I fully agree that presentation layer is critical.

It sounds like you're looking for new UI components/paradigms. I think you're better of looking at a live system rather than screenshots. You can use the live demo on our website.
http://www.ifountain.com/rapid...

In RI, we mostly use typical components, grids, maps, pie charts, etc. key being presentation layer showing all the relevant information from disparate systems seamlessly. Another key point is the interaction between the components in a view. Components are dynamic, interaction in one component reflects on others,etc.

We found these are key enabler techniques to make presentation layer effective.

There are also some examples of different UI components. you can try
- service view tab, click on a menu in service view and select Get Event History (uses timeline to show events)
- select get Device locations to see google maps type integration.
- data is brought from the server as user moves around in the list views (live grid concept) which is key for the UI to scale to large systems.
- in search tabs, refinement of the search query as the user click on the results

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

J3ffG1ll — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:14:57 -0000

I found a few good screen captures on the ifountain link you provided, do you have more? imo the presentation layer is critical - i'm curious how rapidinsight has solved the problem beyond the typical gauge/pie chart/list solution.

Jeff

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

berkay — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:36:37 -0000

Hi Jeff, thanks for the comment, glad to hear you've found it useful.

It makes a lot of sense, events and performance are intertwined, and ops need to be able to correlate them at least visually hence the need to align the events and performance data as you've described.

In monitoring systems, performance exceptions are typically sent as events via snmp traps etc to the event management systems, bringing events from any source into the mgmt systems is essential but not always sufficient.
In addition to the consolidation of events, in RapidInsight, we've taken an approach that we describe as "integration in the presentation layer" http://www.ifountain.com/blog/...
where we combine all types of information (events, graphs, etc.) from multiple systems using a common model and user interface. This allows users to access performance reports/graphs in context of the events and vice versa.

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

J3ffG1ll — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:15:50 -0000

Berkay

Thanks for taking the time to blog this one... pushing external content into event stream data is getting hot! I've been working with an ISP who's attempting to align external-corp contextual event data with performance data to feed a performance database.

J3ffG1ll
J3ffG1ll.typepad.com

Re: Getting Groovy Processing XML, sending SNMP traps and RapidInsight

berkay — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:31:30 -0000

Hi Doug :)

What did you end up doing about this anyway?

Just to be sure, in the approach above, the only prerequisite that needs to be installed on the server is Java VM. The rest are just jar files (for groovy and snmp) and scripts that can be unzipped to any directory and executed. I understand that RapidInsight would be an overkill just for something like this, but even RI is works by simply unzipping it to a directory.
XMLSlurper is part of groovy so it's already there, SNMP part above uses some utility classes in RI so they would need to be extracted from there to be used standalone but it's doable.