The Professional Open Source Company JBoss Network Enterprise Manager A detailed description of some of the key features of the JBN Enterprise Manager console

2 The Professional Open Source Company Agenda Resource discovery. Ways to group resources. Creating fine-grained access control. Types of charts. Baseline metrics. Configuring alerts.

3 The Professional Open Source Company Resource Discovery Two mechanisms for adding managed resources to the inventory: Auto Scan Quick. Looks in the registry (windows only) and process table. File Scan Slow Searches the file system.

4 The Professional Open Source Company Grouping Resources 1.Compatible Groups All members must be of the same resource type, e.g. all JBoss 3.2 servers. 2.Applications Can contain any one of the following: set of Service resources, or set of Groups of Service resources.

5 The Professional Open Source Company Grouping Resources 3.Mixed Groups Can contain any one of the following: set of Groups, or set of Platforms, Servers and Services, or set of Applications. 4.Auto-Groups Created by JBN-EM, used to provide naturally-occurring/obvious groups.

6 The Professional Open Source Company Access control Permissions are stacked as resources are: Platform>Server>Service. A good use for Mixed groups is for doing access control. Define the group. Define the role. Associate them. Result: Users in that role will only be able to manage what is in that group.

7 The Professional Open Source Company More on Metrics: Charts Chart-types: Multiple Metrics, Single Resource Normal set of chart displayed on Monitor page. Single Metric, Single Resource Detailed view. Single Metric, Multiple Resources Seen when viewing charts for groups, e.g. auto-groups and compatible groups.

8 The Professional Open Source Company More on Metrics: Baselines Baseline for a metric: Low/High/Average values over a rolling time window. Useful for trend analysis, and generating appropriate alerts. Once a metric enters its high or low range, i.e. its OOB (Out Of Bounds), it is marked as a Problem Resource. Baselines can be Automatically calculated on a scheduled basis. Automatic calculation can be triggered manually. Baseline values can be specified manually.

9 The Professional Open Source Company Baseline notes This slide just contains extra notes and should not be displayed in the slide show

10 The Professional Open Source Company Baselines Notes This slide just contains extra notes and should not be displayed in the slide show

11 The Professional Open Source Company More on Alerts Can specify action invocation timing: Immediately upon detecting trigger condition. When frequency limit is exceeded in a given period. Can specify compound trigger events for an Alert: Event1 OR Event2 OR Event3. Event4 AND Event5. Alerts can be filtered conditionally: Disable alert until re-enabled manually or by recovery alert. Prevent alert storms by disabling alert after its fired the first time. Disregard control actions that are defined for related alerts. Multiple alerts will not trigger the same control action. Filter notification actions that are defined for related alerts. Multiple alerts will be aggregated and only a single alert notification (e.g. ) will be issued.

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13 The Professional Open Source Company Q & A Future WebEx presentations coming soon! Will demonstrate in more detail the features provided by JBN EM, e.g. the Command Line Shell, JBoss monitoring, Tomcat monitoring. Thanks for your time!