How to be a lion tamer

Keeping WebSphere under control with free tools - Wannes & Sharon share some tips and experience on the free tools they use daily to monitor Connections environments using FREE tools

Presented with Sharon James @IconUK 2016

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1. How to be a lion tamer
   (or keeping WebSphere under control with free tools)
   Sharon Bellamy James & Wannes Rams
   

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2. Sharon Bellamy James
   • IBM WebSphere since 1999 &
   Connections since 2 / 2008
   • Many years experience with
   migrations, installations, administration,
   integration, customization & DOCUMENTATION
   • Tiny bit of a Star wars & Disney fan
   • Charity fundraising Cosplayer/Costumer
   • Part of the team that brings you ICON UK
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3. Wannes Rams
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   • Domino since 2000, Sametime since version 6.5.1
   Connections since 2.01
   • Many years experience with
   architecture, migrations, installations,
   integration, customization
   • Owner at Ramsit
   • Hard core (average) table tennis player
   • Social Connections User group board member
   

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4. Overview
   • Nagios
   • WebSphere PTT
   • Nmon Visualizer
   

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5. • https://www.nagios.com
   • Nagios Core - The open source industry standard in IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting
   • Download Core: https://www.nagios.org/downloads/nagios-core/
   • https://exchange.nagios.org – for 3rd party plugins and add ons
   • Nagiosql (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosql/ www.nagiosql.org ) - GUI configuration
   interface
   • Front ends – Looking glass - https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-%28GUIs-
   and-CLIs%29/Web-Interfaces/Nagios-Looking-Glass/details
   

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6. • IS FREE !!! – well open source
   • Linux based – runs on RHEL or CENTOS
   • Super easy to set up – very well DOCUMENTED J
   • Features:
   Monitoring - System metrics, network protocols, applications, services, servers, and network infrastructure
   Alerting - Nagios sends alerts when critical infrastructure components fail and recover. Alerts can be delivered via email,
   SMS, or custom script.
   Reporting - Provide a historical record of outages, events, notifications, and alert response for later review. Availability
   reports help ensure your SLAs are being met.
   

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9. Nagios & Websphere
   • Basic WAS monitoring
   • Up or Down check on soap port of each server
   • Up or Down of host machine – via a ping or host up command
   • Plugins:
   https://github.com/yannlambret/websphere-nagios - JVM heap monitoring, Server thread pools monitoring - including
   hung thread detection, JTA transactions monitoring,JDBC datasources monitoring, JMS connection factories
   monitoring, JMS 1.0 listeners status monitoring, SIB queues depth monitoring, HTTP sessions monitoring, Clustering
   support, Administrative security support
   https://github.com/dvarounis/perfservmon - Perfservmon is a Nagios Plugin for IBM Websphere Application
   Server(WAS) using the perfservlet web application that comes with each WAS installation. Can monitor - Heap Usage,
   Web Container Thread Pool Usage, ORB Thread Pool Usage, JDBC Connection Pool Usage, Live HTTP Sessions, JMS
   SIB Destination(Queue, Topic) Metrics
   

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10. Nagios & HTTP
    • Basic HTTP monitoring
    • Ports up / down on 80, 443 and 8008
    • Can monitor for specific codes 500 / 404 etc.
    • WAS plugins in the previous slides also monitor HTTP sessions.
    

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11. Nagios & DB
    • Basic up and down check
    • Lots of plugins for monitoring
    • https://github.com/angoca/monitor-db2-with-nagios - bunch of really useful stuff
    - check_hadr_status - works with V10.5
    - check_tablespace_size – 9.7 and up
    - check_db2diag –9.7 and up
    - check_instance_up – 9.7 and up
    - check_instance_memory – 9.7 and up
    - check_last_backup – 9.7 and up
    - check_log_consumption – 9.7 and up
    - check_log_usage – 9.7 and up
    

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12. Performance indicators WebSphere
    • WebSphere Application Server Performance Tuning Toolkit (PTT)
    • Free, Eclipse based tool provided by IBM
    • Yes, it’s free and from IBM and it works J
    

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13. WebSphere Application Server Performance
    Tuning Toolkit (WAS PTT)
    • Benefits:
    • No install on servers
    • Real time
    • Rule based
    • Easy to use interface
    

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14. WAS PTT
    • Install:
    • Download, unzip, run…
    • Configuration
    

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15. Data Collection
    

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16. Visual reports
    

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17. Visual reports
    

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18. Visual reports
    

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19. Visual reports
    

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20. Visual reports
    

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21. Visual reports
    

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22. Visual reports
    

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23. Reports
    • Ability to run reports (pdf, csv)
    

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24. WAS PTT
    • Ability to get tuning data (and update them)
    

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25. WAS PTT
    • Ability to generate:
    • Thread Dump
    • Heap Dump
    • Enable Trace
    • Show Connection Pool contents
    • Get Server Logs
    

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26. How to find performance indicators
    HTTP Server: mod_status
    • Apache module
    • HTML Interface:
    Ex. : http://www.apache.org/server-status
    

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27. How to find performance indicators
    HTTP Server: mod_status
    

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28. How to find performance indicators
    HTTP Server: mod_status
    • Easy to setup in httpd.conf
    

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29. Nmon Visualizer
    • Easier than the excel file
    • Open source tool
    • Developed by IBM to monitor Smartcloud
    • Apache 2.0 License
    • nmon files from Linux and AIX, IOStat files, IBM Verbose GC logs,
    Windows Perfmon & ESXTop csv data and JSON data
    

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30. Nmon Visualizer
    

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31. Nagios & DB2 Monitoring
    • Each script is individually configurable
    • Edit the script directly or use GUI config (nagiosQL)
    • Alerting settings are configured at
    Nagios level
    

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32. Nagios & DB2 Monitoring
    • https://github.com/angoca/monitor-db2-with-nagios
    • check_connection_qty - quantity of connections on the database and the state
    they are currently in, lockwait, connecting, rollback etc ..
    • check_database_connection – checks a connection to the DB
    • check_database_size – set threshold alerts, etc.
    • check_lock_wait – 10.5 and above – checks lock waits
    • check_memory_usage - usage memory: total, free, usage
    • check_open_files – open files per instance
    

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33. References and links
    • Performance Tuning Toolkit
    • http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/downloads/performtuning.ht
    ml
    • Mod_status
    • http://www.tecmint.com/monitor-apache-web-server-load-and-page-statistics/
    • Nmon Visualizer
    • http://nmonvisualizer.github.io/nmonvisualizer/
    

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34. References and links
    • Nagios
    • Core Download - https://www.nagios.org/downloads/nagios-core/
    • Nagios Exchange - https://exchange.nagios.org
    • DB2 Plugins - https://github.com/angoca/monitor-db2-with-nagios
    http://www.dbatodba.com/db2/scripts-db2/nagios-plugins/
    • WebSphere Plugins - https://github.com/yannlambret/websphere-nagios
    https://github.com/dvarounis/perfservmon
    

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35. Any Questions?
    

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36. Thank you
    http://socialshazza.com
    dilftechnical
    @socialshazza
    http://ramsit.com/blog
    wannesrams
    @wannesrams
    

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