Cloud Infrastructure: Configuration and Deployment Analysis Report

This report comprehensively analyzes the configuration and deployment of cloud infrastructure, focusing on the architecture and components of an operations manager, including management servers, agents, and databases. It details agent installation methods, such as Active Directory and manual installation, and explores the use of the operations console for managing agents. The report delves into monitoring wizards, templates for process, Windows service, and TCP port monitoring, and the creation of management groups. It also covers the process of discovering and monitoring objects, server-side and client-side application performance monitoring, and methods for enabling server-side monitoring. Furthermore, the report discusses the creation of groups and queues within the service manager console, alert configuration, and integration pack deployment. Finally, the report concludes with an examination of cloud bursting, its benefits, and associated challenges such as data transfer and complex infrastructure limitations. This report provides a detailed understanding of cloud infrastructure management and its intricacies.

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Configuration and deployment of cloud infrastructure
Question 1.
a) The architecture of the operations manager is proposed to give a solid foundation to
monitoring of execution and availability, and for the meantime setting a construct
requirement with respect to the establishment and assets of work force. It contains several
components which include the following:
 Management server that manages the Data Access Server, the Agent manager and
the consolidator.
 Agents is an administration that is introduced on a PC that searches for setup
information and gathers data for investigation and detailing, determine the health
state of objects monitored such as SQL database or disk of logic and performs
assignments on request by an administrator or because of a condition. It enables
Operations Manager in monitoring UNIX, Windows and Linux systems of
operation.
 Database whereby it comprises of the data of configuration for the groups of
management and keeps the data of monitoring which is gathered and executed for
the group of management. (Guo et al. ,2012)
b) The Administrator profile comprises of access privileges to Operations Manager. The
Administrator profile incorporates the greater part of the benefits contained in every other
single profile.
The Read-Only Operator profile encloses benefits expected for clients who require read-
just access. It enables clients to get to views and view alarms.
The Report Operator profile contains benefits for getting to reports by clients. It awards
clients the authorization to see reports with respect to their extent of setup. (Smith, M.
B. ,2009)
Question 2.

a) Agents are required in the operations manager to gather design information and collects
information for detailing and investigation, defines the state of health of objects being
observed and executes assignments asked. (Etchevers et. al, 2011)
b) Active directory - The Operations Manager enhances the usage of the active directory to
assign computers that are managed by the agents to the groups of management.
Manual installation – this method is used after all the other methods have failed. The
setup is installed through a tool of distribution or run in a manual manner on the agent.
(Etchevers et. al, 2011)
c) Operation console is utilized as a part of establishment of at least one agent. The console
can likewise be utilized to manage agents that have been introduced utilizing the
Discovery Wizard. The console can be used to apply patches, arrange the server of
administration and bring up to date various versions of agents where the agents are
supposed to report. (Etchevers et. al, 2011)
Question 3.
Monitoring wizards are contained in the management pack templates that permit making of
finish situations of checking with inconsequential information. The wizard creates the needed
guidelines, monitors and even concentrations to execute the particular circumstance. The
setup of the wizard itself can be adjusted in the case that one requires to change the manner
in which monitoring is being carried out. The accessible formats include:
 Process monitoring template that enables one to observe whether a particular is
running in a computer. By utilizing this layout, you can execute two distinctive
essential situations: one may need the procedure to keep running for a specific
application and requires to be cautioned on the off chance that it isn't running, or one
may have to be alarmed on the off chance that you find that an undesirable procedure
is running.
 Windows Service Monitoring Template gives you a chance to discover and monitor
occurrences of a specific administration introduced on a PC that contains the
Windows. The template finds PCs executing the administration and after that uses

monitors and standards to try its accessibility and gather execution information. The
main data that is needed includes the name of the administration and the kinds of
monitoring needed in performance.
 TCP port template that monitors whether an application is available over the TCP. An
application to be tried may live on any PC regardless of the agent being installed on
the Operations manager or not. Every watcher hub ought to contain an installed
Operations Manager operator.
 Web Application Transaction Monitoring Template which Monitors the operation,
availability and performance of an application of the web. (Smith, M.B, 2009)
Question 4.
After the operation manager is installed, management groups are created. They involve a
database that reports the data warehouse, operational database and the management server.
 Administration of the management group and communication with the database is
managed by the management server. On the other hand, all plan data for the management group and storage of all monitoring
data that is accumulated and arranged for the management group are contained in the
operational database.
The following steps can be followed in order to discover and monitor objects:
 Computers to be managed are searched by the operation manager: The computers are identified. Installation of the agent on the computers that have been discovered follows. Configuration is sent to the agent upon requesting. Objects are discovered. The agent responds to the management server indicating that the
disk is available. The logic of monitoring is sent to the agent. All the logic of monitoring regarding the
disk is collected by the agent. The management server is sent the monitoring data.

 The logic of monitoring is updated when the process of change happens. (Ron et al,
2009)
Question 5.
i.
a) In the Operations console, Authoring workspace is selected.
b) Select Create a new distributed application after right clicking distributed
applications.
c) In the name box, type a name for the distributed application.
d) Select the template for the starting point of the distributed application.
e) Select the management pack and then click OK. (Ron et al, 2009)
ii.
a) Start the Operations console
b) Click Monitoring, and then select Discovered Inventory.
c) Click Change Target Type then select View all targets.
d) Select Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk, and then click OK
e) Select one of the instances
f) Select Change Target Type.
g) Select View all targets
h) Select Logical Disk (Server), and then click OK
i) Again select Change Target Type. Select View all targets.
j) Select Logical Disk, and then click OK.
k) Select one of the disks and then click the link on the computer name part of the
Path Name property shown in the Detail View. (Guo et al. ,2012)
Question 6.
Server side application execution checking uses WebLOAD which accumulates server-
side execution data from working structures, application servers, web servers and
database servers to empower you to perceive the primary driver of issues. Server side

data is indicated ceaselessly as a part of WebLOAD's results examination reports.
WebLOAD's worked in compromise with application execution organization (APM)
devices helps you do cause examination well beyond. Furthermore, WebLOAD supports
standard APIs through which servers reveal execution data, for instance, RSTATD,
Monitor, JMX, Windows Performance SNMP, JDBC and SSH. When you recognize an
execution issue using WebLOAD you can change to your APM gadget and relate the
WebLOAD trade to the server-side event. You can exactly recognize events behind
bottlenecks and quickly settle issues.
Client side application performance monitoring empowers estimating ongoing required
by an application to complete an exchange. The accompanying methodologies can be
utilized to monitor from a customer's side:
Synthetic Transactions technique uses reenacted exchanges to check the response time of
an application server and to affirm the got responses by standing out them from
effectively recorded reference exchanges. A couple of test framework administrators,
going about as clients in a framework, send sales to the application server of interest and
decide the time anticipated that would complete a trade. In the event that the response
time outperforms a configurable edge or the got server response isn't right, the
administrators exhort the chief by making occasions.
GUI based solution empowers metering genuine customer exchanges and evades the
necessity for getting to the client application's source code. As every customer request the
two starts and terminations changing a GUI part at the client side, simply watching GUI
occasions pass on the required information about start and end purposes of customer
exchanges. The product item presented at client site devices amasses the exchange data of
enthusiasm from a customer's point of view. (Ron et al, 2009)
Question 7.
i. To enable server side monitoring, the following can be carried out:
 Setting up of the Monitoring Agent of Rackspace.

 Creation of a configuration file on the server-side.
 Updating or deletion of server-side configuration. (Sanghvi et. Al, 2011)
ii. In the event that one wants to update the environment,
 update and save the YAML file
 followed by restarting the agent.
 Update the target server using the updated alarms and checks.
 Restarting the agent causes the changes made through the API to be overwritten
by the file of configuration. (Ferretti et. al ,2010)
Question 8.
i. .
a) Click Library in the service manager console.
b) Expand Library and then click Groups.
c) Click Create Group and click Next.
d) The following is performed on the general page:
 Provide a name for the group
 Type a description for the group.
 Select an unsealed management pack.
e) Click Add and then select a class in the Filter by class.
f) Type the search criteria to use to locate an object, and then click the filter button.
g) Select one or more items in the Available Objects list, click Add and then click
Ok.
h) On the Included Members page, click Next.
i) Click Create then close after completion message appears. (Sanghvi et. Al, 2011)
ii. .
1. In the Service Manager console, click Library.
2. Expand Library, and then click Queues.
3. Click Create Queue.

4. To complete the process, the following is done:
a. Click Next.
b. Type a name in the Queue name box.
c. Next to Work item type box, click the ellipsis button (...). Select a class and
then click OK.
d. Select the unsealed management pack then click Next.
e. Build the criteria to use to filter work items for the queue, and then click Next.
f. Click Create queue and Close. (Garcie-Luna-Aceves, J. J. ,2007)
Question 9.
i.
a) Click Administration in the Operations console.
b) Click Settings
c) Double-click Alerts
d) On the Alert Resolution States tab, click New
e) In Add Alert Resolution State, type a name for the resolution state and
select a value in the Unique ID box, and then click OK.
f) In Global Management Group Settings – Alerts, click OK. (Amarendran,
A., & Retnamma, M. V. ,2009)
ii.
a) Right-click Integration Packs in the navigation pane of Deployment
manager, click Deploy IP to Action Server or Client.
b) Select the integration pack and then click Next.
c) Inputting the name of the runbook server with the Runbook Designer
installed, click Add then click Next.
d) Selection of the Schedule installation check box, time and date from the
Perform installation list.
e) Installation of the Integration Packs.
f) Click Next and then Finish. (Sanghvi et. Al, 2011)
Question 11.

Cloud bursting is an application organization prototype in which an application continues
running in a private cloud or data center and blasts into an open cloud when the interest for
enrolling limit spikes. Its leverage is that, installments for the register assets are just made when
required. Its suggested for applications that perform exceedingly and are not basic in handling
data that isn't touchy. An application can be passed on locally and after that burst to the cloud to
meet peak demands, or the application can be moved to the overall population cloud to free up
close-by resources for business-fundamental applications.
Cloud bursting performs awesome for applications that don't depend upon a mind
boggling application transport structure or compromise with various applications, parts and
systems internal to the server farm.
Issues related with cloud bursting.
 This implies it doesn't bolster applications that rely upon each other in the framework
henceforth that winds up one of the test of cloud blasting.
 Another test is contradiction with different situations and furthermore its constrained in
accessibility in the administration apparatuses.
 Another issue is the information activity which comes to fruition in that, every one of the
information must be duplicated from the cloud and the information happens to be
tremendous since current applications contain a great deal of information.
 It doesn't likewise bolster complex foundation. (Jain, P., Rane, D., & Patidar, S. ,2011)

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