SUSE Linux Enterprise is the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing - both in traditional client-server and in virtual environments - from the desktop to the datacenter. In this talk some basic information about the data for the monitoring of SUSE LINUX and which opportunities for monitoring SUSE LINUX offers will be given.

1. Novell® @ OSMC 2010
Inside SUSE Linux
Joachim Werner
Senior Product Manager
joe@novell.com
October 7th
2010

2. Novell

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Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of
partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT
environments, allowing people and technology to work
as one.
Deliver Clear Customer Value Across Three Focus Areas
The Novell® Mission
• Reduce Cost
• Manage Complexity
• Mitigate Risk
Making IT Work As One™
Data
Center
End-User
Computing
Identity and
Security
• Business Service
Management
• Virtualization and
Workload
Management
• Enterprise Linux
Servers
• Collaboration
• Endpoint
Management
• Enterprise
Linux
Desktops
• Identity and
Access
Management
• Compliance
Management

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Novell® at a Glance
Countries
Years of
Experience
Partners
Million in Revenue
FY 2009
Employees
Inventions
Million
in Cash Customers

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The Workload Lifecycle
Build
Secure
Manage
Measure
Intelligent
+ Management
+ IdentityWorkload
+ Customized OS
Both Intelligent and Standard Workloads
Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
Environments

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Novell® Identity
Manager
Novell® Access
Manager
Novell® Roles Based
Provisioning Module
Novell® Access
Governance Suite
Novell Privileged
User Manager
Novell® SecureLogin®
Novell® Cloud
Security Service
How Novell Delivers Intelligent
Workload Management
Build Secure Manage Measure
SUSE® Linux
Enterprise Server
SUSE® Studio
SUSE® Linux
Enterprise JeOS
Novell® ZENworks®
Configuration
Management
SUSE® Appliance
Toolkit
Novell® Workshop
Novell® Business Service
Manager
Novell® Business Service
Level Manager™
Novell® Business
Experience Manager™
Novell® myCMDB™
Novell® Sentinel™
Novell® Sentinel™
Log
Manager
Novell Compliance
Automation Solution
Novell Operations
Center
* Available by end of 2010
PlateSpin® Migrate
PlateSpin® Orchestrate
Novell® ZENworks®
Configuration
Management
PlateSpin® Recon
PlateSpin® Protect
Novell® Cloud Manager
Novell Server Manager
SUSE Manager

7. SUSE Linux Enterprise

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Balanced Development Process
Various open
source projects
Rapidly growing number of
projects and capabilities
Isolated efforts
Linux for
enthusiasts and
individuals
Technical previews
and leading-edge
applications
Rich package
set
Coordinated project
and integration
Kernel Xen Apache ...
openSUSE
11.0
openSUSE
11.1
openSUSE
11.2
openSUSE
11.3
openSUSE
x.x
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Hardened, secure
and supported
Certified for leading hardware
and software platforms
10-year support
guarantee
CUPS

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Modular Portfolio
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Appliance
OS
Developer
Tools
Bundles
SLES JeOS SLE SDK SLE POS
SLES for SAP,
Expanded
Support
SLED
Server
OS
Desktop
OS
Support
SKUs
High Availability Extension Real Time Extension Mono Extension
Optional extensions for high availability clustering,
deterministic computing and running .NET applications
Pay for only
what you need
Common Code
Base foundation
Level 3 Support Runs on x86,
x86_64, Itanium,
Power, and s390x

10. Monitoring
SUSE Linux Enterprise

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Monitoring Overview
• Low level
– smartmontools - Monitor for S.M.A.R.T. Disks and Devices
– sensors - Hardware health monitoring for Linux
– iptraf - TCP/IP Network Monitor
– pcp - Performance Co-Pilot
(system-level performance monitoring)
– sysstat - Sar and Iostat Commands for Linux
– perfmon
– blktrace, ltrace, strace
– systemtap - Instrumentation System
– AIDE – advanced intrusion detection environment
• High Level
– argus – network auditing tool
– nagios

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Monitoring I - WebYaST
Key Benefits
Just like YaST, WebYaST is also open source software, with
maintenance and support delivered by Novell as part of the
SUSE Appliance Program. Software vendors and third-party
developers are encouraged to develop modules—specifically
aimed at facilitating configuration of their application.
Key Features
• Initial configuration wizard
• Time, Time zone, NTP
• Status, soft-shutdown, reboot
• Monitoring (configurable)
• Update
• Network
• License/EULA and Registration
• Users
• Service start/stop/status
• Log visualization

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Monitoring II - Ganglia
• Usage in
– Novell PlateSpin Orchestrate
– Novell Cloud Manager
• Why Ganglia?
– For given use case gathering metrics was more important than alerting
– Ganglia does metrics out of the box
• Novell contributions
– Brad Nicholes from Novell has contributed a lot of pieces to the project,
mainly in the 3.1.x releases
• Modular interface
• support for modules written in Python (previously only C/C++,
very similar to Apache modules)
• Rewrite of the gmetad agent (Python)

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Monitoring III - Nagios
• Used within SUSE R&D Department
– Monitor internal services
– Monitor the openSUSE Build Service
• https://build.opensuse.org/monitor
• Nagios
– Version 3.2.0
– SNMP and NRPE in mixed usage
– Configurations managed in SVN
• PNP4Nagios with RRDtool
• Firefox alert plugin
• Our additional plugins are in the openSUSE Build
Service repository
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/SLE_11.1/x86_64/

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Monitoring III – Nagios II

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Best practise @ SUSE
• We join machines to groups that have certain
monitoring profiles instead of maintaining individual
configuration files per server
• We use nagios for checking maintenance contracts
• Hardening agents with AppArmor

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SUSE Linux Enterprise
High Availability Stack
SLES 10
Part of SLES 10
OCFS2 / EVMS2
DRBD 0.7
Yast2-HB
Heartbeat
openAIS
Yast2-Multipath
Pacemaker
Added in
SLE HA 11
OCFS2
general FS
HA GUI
Unified CLI
Yast2-DRBD
SLE HA 11
Web GUI
Samba
Cluster
Added in
SLE HA 11 SP1
Metro-Area
Cluster
Enhanced
Data Replication
Node Recovery
SLE HA 11 SP1
Cluster
Test Drive
Host Based
Mirror

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Future
• Icinga
• Shinken?
• Spacewalk as a framework?

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Making IT Work As One™

21. Intelligent Workload
Management

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Intelligent Workload Management
Intelligent Workload Management
enables IT organizations to manage
and optimize computing resources
in a policy-driven, secure and
compliant manner across physical,
virtual and cloud environments to
deliver business services for
end customers.
Intelligent
WORKLOAD
Management

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What Makes a Workload Intelligent?
Policy-driven
Understands its security protocols and processing requirements
Enables self-regulation and management according to business policy
Performance-optimized
Recognizes when it is at capacity
Finds alternative computing capacity as required to optimize performance
Identity-aware
Identity and access controls move with the workload between environments
Built-in log management and compliance reporting capabilities
Real-time event tracking, monitoring and alerting
Integrated
Works with existing and new management frameworks
Plugs into a business service management layer

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