Deploy resource monitoring - Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud - page 144

Thought experiment
Travel booking application at Margie's Travel
T The developers at Margie's Travel have just deployed a .NET application across sev-
eral virtual machines on your organization's perimeter network. One VM hosts the
IIS segment, and another hosts the web application's database tier. This application
is supposed to be available to users around the world.
With this information in mind, answer the following questions:
1. Which service should you configure to verify that the external web application is
available to people around the world?
2. What would you configure to monitor the web application as a single entity?
3. What would you configure so that you can assess and monitor the performance
of the web application?
Objective summary
■ You can tune a management pack so that it presents you with information that is rel-
evant for your particular environment.
■ Tuning involves configuring overrides for monitors and rules that change how each of
these work.
■ When tuning a sealed management pack, you store the overrides in a separate un-
sealed management pack
■ Synthetic transactions allow you to create monitors for a variety of items, including
UNIX and Linux processes, Windows Services, web applications, and OLE DB data
sources
■ Global Service Monitor allows you to configure remote monitoring of externally avail-
able web applications
■ Application Performance Monitoring allows you to configure advanced monitoring for
.NET and WCF applications
■ Distributed application models allow you to create models of applications that depend
upon multiple disparate segments.