Datasheet FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring Manager V1.

Datasheet
FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud
Monitoring Manager V1.1
A Monitoring Cloud Service for Enterprise OpenStack Systems

Cloud Monitoring Manager

OpenStack promises to bring the agility, cost efficiency and usability of
an infrastructure cloud service (IaaS) into every data center. Therefore,
enterprises are rapidly adapting OpenStack, making it an essential
layer in their IT landscape.
The more central this cloud layer becomes in IT, the more important it
becomes to monitor the underlying systems in order to guarantee
high service levels.
OpenStack is complex and highly distributed. Therefore, achieving
high availability, which is typically required from cloud services, is
challenging. Gaining deep insight into such complex systems is a long
process. Integrations with existing monitoring solutions is expensive
and time-consuming. Finally, as OpenStack systems can become large,
the huge amount of produced monitoring and log data may lead to
severe performance problems in traditional monitoring tools.
FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring Manager is an entirely
open software solution that provides all the means to collect, store,
display, and analyze all the monitoring and logging data of a
production OpenStack system. Its extensive testing with selected
target distributions (see Section Technical Details) provide a stable,
enterprise-ready turn-key monitoring and logging solution, avoiding
tedious integration work which is required by traditional monitoring
solutions. In addition, its scalable architecture is capable of mastering
both medium and large size OpenStack deployments.
FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring Manager is based on
open source software, using the official “big tent” OpenStack project
Monasca as core technology. This makes it the best solution for
enterprise-grade OpenStack monitoring.

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Features and benefits

Main features Benefits

OpenStack Monitoring
■ Pre-configured to collect all important monitoring data of ■ Ensure availability and high service quality of an OpenStack-based
OpenStack services, middleware and underlying infrastructure of cloud service
supported distributions (see Section Technical Details) ■ Suitable for large-scale OpenStack deployments
■ Scalable technologies and high performance data processing ■ Gain deep insights into the system by advanced analysis methods
■ Efficient data storage for long-term historic data retention time ■ Easily scalable together with the growth of the data center
■ Alarms and notifications
■ A powerful dashboard for advanced graphical analysis of historic
data

Log Management
■ Based on Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana
■ A state-of-the-art search engine for log data
■ Powerful graphical analysis
■ Scalable for high logging throughput
■ Identify problems early and find the root cause quickly
■ Minimize time-to-fix: avoid down-times and negative customer
impact

Monitoring-as-a-Service
■ Configurationless VM monitoring for end users ■ Increase the value proposition of an OpenStack-based cloud
offering
■ Drive degree of automation for end users

Multi-tenancy
■ Application of the OpenStack tenant model ■ Collaborative team work via OpenStack projects
■ Authentication via Keystone

Open Source
■ Based on the official OpenStack project Monasca ■ Transparency and control
■ All components are based on open source software

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Topic

Graphical Analysis
An intelligent presentation of real-time and historic data is an
effective method to gain deep insight into the status of system. This
comprises the recognition of trends or anomalies, which is
fundamental in detecting and avoiding errors or a lack of resources.
Having detected a (potential) problem, a drill-down analysis using
graphic tools is an effective means to rapidly find either the root cause
of a problem, or indicators that help to eliminate the problem.
FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring Manager features two
dashboard technologies for graphical analysis: Grafana for metrics and
Kibana for log data. Both dashboards are entirely open source and
developed in open community projects. Each dashboard represents
the most powerful solution for the two different use cases (metrics and
logs).
are also distributed over multiple services that may run on a large
number of nodes. A common way to tackle this problem is to
introduce a centralized log management tool. Besides its metrics-
based monitoring functionality, FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud
Monitoring Manager features a logging solution that is based on three
base technologies: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. This
combination, also known as ELK Stack, is the probably most
commonly used open source solution for centralized log management.
It features a state of the art search engine, allowing efficient search
queries on the entire collected log records, and a dashboard for
powerful graphical representation and analysis (see Section Graphical
Analysis). All components are scalable, to master the high data load of
a large OpenStack system. In addition to the pure ELK stack, all
logging-related data that is exchanged between the involved
components is buffered in a high-performance distributed message
queue. This further improves the performance and scalability behavior.

Open Source Technologies

FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring Manager is entirely
based on open source software components. Its core technology is
Monasca, which has been an official OpenStack project since
November 2015. FUJITSU became part of Monasca in January 2015,
and has been actively contributing source code since. Here, a
highlight is a set of features for log management, described above,
which greatly extends the functionality of Monasca.

Alarming for Dynamic Cloud Applications

Most of the existing monitoring tools were originally written for
traditional IT systems. A characteristic of those systems is that they
typically run over long periods and big changes happen rarely. The
picture is significantly different when looking at modern cloud
applications. These applications are often designed in such a way that
the underlying (virtual) infrastructure can be changed frequently so as
to achieve characteristics, such as elasticity or fault tolerance.
FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring Manager has been
designed from the start as a monitoring service for cloud native
applications. There is thus an alarm template mechanism that is not
limited to monitoring a single resource (as is typical in traditional
monitoring tools), but can also analyze an elastic set of resources. One
example of such an alarm definition could be to “trigger an alarm if
the average CPU idle time of all machines that host Service X falls
below twenty percent”. Such a definition mechanism monitors the
overall health of the entire infrastructure and is tolerant to down-
scaling or failing nodes without additional configuration efforts.
At the other hand, FUJITSU Software ServerView Cloud Monitoring
Manager is equally capable of monitoring single, static infrastructure
entities, such as the physical machines that host OpenStack services.

Logging in OpenStack
A large-scale OpenStack system may produce massive amounts of log
data depending on its size and configuration. The sources of log data

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Technical Details

Monitoring Server
Hardware
Operating System
FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX, BX and TX
Notes(Recommended) CPU: Intel® Xeon® E5-2660 v2, 2.20 GHz or more
Memory : 64 GB DIMM (DDR3) or more
Installation directory: 2 GB or more
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (Intel64)

Supported OpenStack Distributions

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 8
Operating System Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (Intel64)
Preset metrics for OpenStack Check existence of process, HTTP Response for OpenStack services (Nova,
Neutron etc.)
Check the performance of dependent database (RabbitMQ, MySQL, PostgreSQL
etc.)
System metrics for virtual/physical servers(CPU, network traffic, memory usage,
disk usage), process check etc.

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