Understanding the ins and outs of what can be monitored, and what you should be monitoring. Also learn how to remediate common application and server issues automatically to improve application availability.

1. Always Available Applications
How To Achieve This Goal with SolarWinds® SAM and SEUM
Presented by: Jeremy Morrill, Product Manager
COPYRIGHT © 2012, SOLARWINDS WORLDWIDE, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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2. Know What To Monitor
» What Critical Components Make up Your Application?
 Windows®/Linux®/Unix® Processes (via SNMP/WMI/RPC)
 Windows Services (vis SNMP/WMI/RPC)
 TCP Port Monitors
» How do you Ensure the Application is Performing Optimally?
 Windows Performance Counters (RPC/WMI)
 Java® JMX® Monitors
 SNMP Monitors
 Windows/Linux/Unix Script Monitors
» What Signature “Tells” Determine it’s not Behaving Normally?
 Windows Event Log Monitors / Syslog / SNMP Traps
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3. Synthetic End User Experience Monitoring
» Monitor Applications by Mimicking End User Behavior
DHCP DNS
FTP HTTP
HTTPS IMAP4
LDAP MAPI
ODBC Oracle
POP3 RADIUS
SQL TACACS+
» Monitor Complex Web Sites and Web Based Applications
Multi-Step Transactions AJAX/JavaScript®
Flash® & Silverlight® Java (Coming Soon)
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4. Expert Knowledge
» Include Detailed Descriptions in Each Component Monitor
 What Does This Metric Mean?
 Why is it Important to Monitor?
 How do I Solve or Troubleshoot Issues Should Problems Occur?
» Populate Warning & Critical Thresholds
 Understand When Application Performance Is Suffering.
 Visualize How Your Statistic Data Relates to These Thresholds.
» Enter User Notes
 Who do I Contact When There’s an Application Failure?
 Include Important Service Contract Information.
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5. Remediation
» Automate Application Recovery
 Restart Services
 Reboot Servers
 Terminate Processes
 Recycle App Pools
 Execute Scripts
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6. Q&A
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