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Mediation Pack for• AppDynamics• Dynatrace• DC RUM• Aternity• Splunk• CA APM (Introscope)• CA UIM• MF(HP) APM• NetIQ AppManager• ExtraHop• New Relic• Oracle OEM
IBM Operations AnalyticsPredictive Insights
Version 1.4Dec 22, 2017
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Agenda• Overview
• Prerequisite Information
• Key setup steps
• Installation
• Setup for example sources
• Configure output
• Output files, Models and Sharing
• Trouble Shooting
• Walkthrough Demo
• Operations Analytics Media Resources
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Overview
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Overview
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Mediators
Single platform supporting multiple Mediators
AppD
Aternity
Splunk
DCRum
Predictive InsightsCSV
CSV Files
Dynatrace
CA APM
ExtraHop
CA UIM
MF APM
NetIQ AppManager
New Relic
Oracle OEM
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Prerequisites
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Prerequisite Information
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Key Setup Steps
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Key Setup Steps
§ Installation
§ Configure one or more ‘Mediators’ which extract the data from the supported sources
§ Configure the single ‘Predictive Insights’ ‘Core’ for output
§ Start the desired metric extraction ‘tasks’ for each of the data sources. This should result in Predictive Insights CSV files being produced
§ Configure Predictive Insights for ingestion using its ‘Mediation Tool’ in the normal way. Sample Predictive Insights ‘model’ files are provided as a starting point.
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Installation
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Installation
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Deployed directory contents
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Setup example mediatorAppDynamics
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Deploy AppD Mediation Pack - Overview
§ Create AppD mediator
§ Configure ’connectivity’
§ Configure metric extraction schedule
§ Check ‘connectivity’
§ Configure metrics to be extracted
§ Configure output for Predictive Insights
§ Start metric ‘task’
§ Note: The main documentation (Spl_AppD_Dyna_Ater_MedPack_v1.4.pdf) supplied in the zip package describes the specific configuration/setup for each of mediators.
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Deploy AppD Mediation Pack§ Point your web-browser to http://<server>:7457
§ Select Mediators and then, the ‘Create’ option
• Select desired ‘Mediation Pack Type’ and provide instance name
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Deploy AppD pack cont – basic config
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• Set a schedule – typically matches downstream ‘Aggregation’ interval
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Deploy AppD pack cont. – check connection
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Deploy AppD pack cont. – metric configuration
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§ You choice of metrics depends on what is available in the upstream system
§ Use Auto-Configure Application
Select desired Application
Select Tiers
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Configure Predictive Insights o/p
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Configure output to Predictive Insights§ All o/p is controlled via a single config
§ Then from the ‘Configure’ option
§ Configure actual settings
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Start metric extraction task
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Start Metric Extraction Task§ Under the Left-hand side menus, select ‘Tasks’ and then ‘Fetch Metrics’ :
§ Then press ‘Schedule’ to start the metric extraction task
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Output files, Models and Sharing
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Predictive Insights CSV files
§ Files output to here :• $MediatorsDataHome/{mediator-type}/{mediator-instance-name}/metrics/ibm/
• Eg. /var/cache/j9accelerators/appdynamics/appd1/metrics
§ Format
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§ Timestamp• Format (SimpleDateFormat) – all UTC: yyyyMMddHHmmss
§ File creation• current.csv => actual
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Installing ’models’
§ A sample set of Predictive Insights models are provided
§ Assuming that you have a Predictive Insights Mediation ‘project’ dir established, copy those files from the installation distribution to that dir
• cp /usr/share/j9accelerators/ibm/pamodel/* ~/workspace/MyIntegrationProject
§ These models are a *starting point*
§ You may want to change them for your particular environment
§ Minimally, you should change the file path to point at your chosen files
§ Group name might need to change depending on what you named your ‘instance’• E.g. change ‘all’ in these two locations
§ <name>APPDYNAMICS</name><groups>
<name>all</name><timestampKey>
<sources><name>appdynamics-all</name><DataEntitySource>
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Moving data from Mediators to Predictive Insights
§ Use any of the standard Predictive Insights techniques
§ Add ‘scadmin’ to ‘j9Accelerators’ group and modify file permissions to share
§ Create files with ‘all’ r/w permissions
§ Create cron job to copy/move files from Mediators to Predictive Insights
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Troubleshooting
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Trouble Shooting
§ No files in o/p dir ?
§ Ensure there is data in the upstream source
§ Check ‘connection’
§ Single extractions should pass before moving on to scheduled extractions
§ Check logs (/var/logs/j9accelerators/) for issues
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Walkthrough Demo
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