ITRS Geneos Training

Module 201: Introduction to Geneos

23 September 2011

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Introduction to Geneos: Admin

Introductions
Facilities
Technology
Health & Safety
This module lasts for 30 minutes.

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Introduction to Geneos: Objectives

At the end of this module, you will be able to explain the
concepts and architecture of Geneos:
Fundamental concepts of Geneos
High-level architectural overview
Real world examples of Geneos functionality

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Introduction to Geneos
Geneos Applications

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Geneos Applications: Introduction

Geneos is the general product name for a family of

system management and monitoring products.
Geneos is designed to address the monitoring and
system management needs of critical real-time
applications.

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Geneos Applications: Generic

Infra structure and hardware monitoring

Process Monitoring, I.E. Batch jobs, information flow
Application Monitoring
Latency and feed handling
Database Monitoring
Network monitoring
OS Monitoring
Market data
And many more, spilt over 130 plug-ins and 27 OS Flavours

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Introduction to Geneos
Geneos
Architecture
ITRS Geneos
Training

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3-Tier Architecture
Visualisation

Active
Consoles

Consolidation

Gateways

Instrumentation

Net Probes
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Geneos Architecture

Net Probe
(Runs as a process on
the box)

Server / PC

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Geneos Architecture
Net Probe

Data Views
(Simple tables of strings)
System X
Sampler

System Z
Sampler
System Y
Sampler

System X

System Y

Samplers / Plug-ins
(These terms are
interchangeable)

System Z

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Geneos Architecture
Net Probe

Data Views
Disk
Sampler

Latency
Sampler
CPU
Sampler

Disk partitions

Set of CPUs

(Which are simple

tables of strings)

Samplers / Plug-ins
(These terms are
transposable)

Trading system

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Geneos Architecture
A Data View

Head lines
Table cells
The term Managed
Variable can be, and is,
used for table cells and
headlines.
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Geneos Architecture
Server
Gateway
(Runs as a process on
the box)

Data views are

sent to the
Gateway

TCP / IP
Communication

Net probes
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Geneos Architecture
Gateway
There is likely to be a
lot of data.
How do we know
which tables and
table cells are
interesting at a
given point in time?

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Geneos Architecture
We use Rules, which
define Severity where
selected conditions
are breached.

Severity Colours
cells
Now we can scan the
tables for colour.
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Geneos Architecture
There may be a lot of
tables though.

So we Propagate
severity, such that data
views inherit the
highest severity from
their contents.

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Geneos Architecture: A Rule

if %processorTime > 90 then

severity critical
run GeneosAlert
else if %processortime > 80
severity warning
else
severity ok
endif

93

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Geneos Architecture: Severities

Severity

Numeric value

Colour

Undefined

Grey

OK

Green

Warning

Yellow

Critical

Red
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Geneos Architecture: Managed Entities

Gateway
Managed Entities are
used to group together
related data views
from a net probe.

Entity X

They are given user

defined names.

Entity Y
Entity Y
Net probe

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Geneos Architecture: Managed Entities

Examples of the use of entities:
A probe is monitoring both infrastructure and
hardware, the designer would like the samplers to
appear in different logical entities, rather than
combined
A designer has 5 SQL toolkits that monitor a
process, 3 are dev and 2 are prod, entities are used
to spilt them up
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Geneos Architecture
Windows PC

Active Console
A standard windows
application, run from
an .exe
TCP / IP
Communication

Gateway(s)

Net probe(s)
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Geneos Architecture
Active Console
Provides a
visualisation on your
environment in a
configurable GUI.

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Geneos Architecture: Other Outputs

Gateway
E-mail
SMS

Database

Scripts

(Not required for

Monitoring, just
recording)

Web
Pages
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Geneos Architecture
Active Console(s)
(Visualisation)

Gateway(s)
(Consolidation)

Net probe(s)
(Instrumentation)
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Geneos Architecture: Data Items

The Term Data Item is used to represent any of
the following:
Gateway
Probe
Managed Entity
Sampler / Plug-in
Data view
Table cell / Managed Variable
Headline / Managed Variable
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Geneos Architecture: Setup and Persistence

Active
Console

Gateway Setup
Editor
1) Edit and commit

Gateway

2) Runtime Reconfiguration
3) Save the new setup
<xml doc>
<Gateway>
</gateway>
</xmldoc>

Gateway(s)

Net probe(s)
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4) The gateway reconfigures the net probes.

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3-Tier Architecture
Visualisation
Dockables,
Dashboards

Consolidation

Active
Consoles

Gateways

Rules, Severity,
Managed Entities
Instrumentation
Plug-ins,
Samplers, dataviews

Net Probes
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