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Monitoring Astellia Solution

Monitoring Astellia Solution

Training Objectives
After having successfully completed the course,
the participants will be able to:
Install the VM
Display alarms, graphs, reports and maps
Acknowledge alarms
Modify thresholds
Schedule downtimes
Generate a report

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Agenda
1. Monitoring: Objectives and architecture
2. Installation
3. Simple usage

Display alarms
Display trends
Display reports
Display maps

4. Advanced usage

Modify thresolds of alarms

Schedule downtime
Generate a report

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Objectives of Astellia
monitoring solution
To be aware of
Hardware issues (snmp traps)
System issues (resources overflows, process stopped )
Issues with Astellia applications (task ASM stopped, KPI overflow
)

To graph trends over a period of time

System KPI: CPU usage
Astellia KPI: TA computing, Cigale availability

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Nagios Architecture 1/2

Nagios server

Redhat server

Windows server

agent

PSU

agent

VIPCARE

agent

Ocean

agent

UA

agent

Web
service

PAA

Neptune

agent

TA

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Nagios Architecture 2/2

Centreon: administration, monitoring (alarms and graphs)

Nagvis: maps (ASM groups/subgroups)
Business Intelligence (BI): report
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Synchronization
Asm -> Centreon: script asm2centreon; launched every night
Centreon (admin)-> Nagios: after each update on Centreon

Nagios -> Centreon (monitoring): native

ASM-> Nagvis: script asm2nagvis; launched every night
Nagios -> Nagvis: native
Nagios -> BI: through jobs
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Agenda
Installation of the VM

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Installation
Cockpit is released as a virtual appliance OVA.
After deploying the OVA, you may have to change the
ressources depending of the size of the datacenter to
monitore

Parameters to be set up on the VM (see MU/MI):

network, apache certificates, mail, ntp
In IHM, set @ip of the centralized ASM server
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Installation
On monitored servers,
install the agents (except for the probes)
Configure SNMP with nagios @ip
Configure ASM controlers to send traps to Cockpit

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Agenda
Simple usage
Display
Display
Display
Display

alarms
trends
reports
maps

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Alarms
Log on as astellia-user on the web interface
Status overview

3 parts: nagios/hosts/services

Alarm details

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Alarms on services 1/3

Launch ASM via Centreon

Filter on:
Service problems

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Alarms on services 2/3

Host services

Hostgroup services

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Alarms on services 3/3

Service group (=PF) services

Only search on a host is functioning.

Then all services of all services groups of this host are displayed

Services with a specific name

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Alarms on hosts 1/2

Filter on:
Host problems

Hostname

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Alarms on hosts 2/2

Hostgroup

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Log of alarms
Possible to get all alarms for a specific period (even if
disappeared)

Filter on:

Hostgroup
Host
Servicegroup
Service

Specify the log period and the kind of alarms you want to display
Export to csv file
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Acknowledge 1/2
In the Monitoring tab: tick the service

More actions > Services: Acknowledge

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Acknowledge 2/2
Sticky: disable notifications until the host/service recovers
Notify: send an email about ack action
Persistent: comment stays, even after removing the ack
Comment: who is in charge? Actions to be taken, etc.

An icon appears when an alarm is acknowledged

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Graphs 1/3
In the Monitoring tab
Click on the graph icon

Open Views tab>Graphs tab

Filter on:
Host
Servicegroups
Service
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Graphs 2/3
3 ways to change the time period for graph
Last XX hours/days
Select a time period

Zoom
Click twice on magnifier

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Graphs 3/3
2 ways to save graphs
As png image
As csv file

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Reports
Report view: list reports by report type

Ressource view: list reports by Host Group or Service Groups

Filter on time periods, dates of generation, frequency or

report names
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Maps 1/2
Drill up/down based on ASM groups/subgroups

Consolidated status
Launch ASM from Nagvis

ASM must be installed where the browser runs

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Maps 2/2
Hover with the mouse to view a status summary

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Agenda
Advanced usage
Modify thresolds of alarms
Schedule downtime
Generate a report

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Thresholds 1/2
Log on as astellia-admin on the web interface
Thresholds can be modified on
a single host
In the monitoring tab, select the service you want to modify

Click on monkey wrench icne and change thresholds

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Thresholds 2/2
all hosts

Modify the service template

Dont forget to push the Centreon updates to Nagios Core (cf. slide 7)

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Schedule DownTime 1/2

It can be useful to disable alarms during maintenance
periods.
On a host/hostgroup

Maintenance period
Fixed
Comment
Disable associated service
checks
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Schedule DownTime 2/2

Same thing can be done on a service

Same options as before

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Create a report 1/2

Create a report

Specify:
Name
Report model: system, cigaleGn etc
Output format: pdf, word, excel etc
Language: fr, en
Hosgroups or hosts
Users to be notified by email
Execution mode: immediate, scheduled (periodically, one shot)
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Create a report 2/2

Set user access level rights to all users
Log on as admin

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Thank you
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Pratical
Together: configure ASM on PSU, @ip in ASM, @ip in snmp
service, @ip in Ocean conf file (alarmsnmpmanager.ini)
Add the ASM servers to centreon:
Ip of ASM server in Centreon
Script synchro nagios

Display all service alarms

Display all services of a specific host
Modify a threshold
Acknowledge an alarm
Display KPI graph after a while (ex:CPU)
Display nagvis

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