Contents Overview 1 Defining Management Strategies 2 Identifying Management Processes 7 Generating Information on the Status Analyzing the Collected Data 26 Selecting Response Strategie
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Overview 1
Defining Management Strategies 2
Identifying Management Processes 7
Generating Information on the Status
Analyzing the Collected Data 26
Selecting Response Strategies 28
Review 30
Module 11:
Windows 2000 Network Services Management
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This module provides students with the information and decision-making processes needed to design a plan for managing network services
At the end of this module, students will be able to:
Define the strategies for managing the network services
Identify the processes used to execute the management plan
Select the appropriate methods to generate information on the status of the services
Select the appropriate methods to analyze collected data
Select appropriate response strategies
There is no lab in this module
Course Materials and Preparation
This section provides you with the materials and preparation needed to teach this module
Required Materials
To teach this module, you need the following materials:
Microsoft® PowerPoint® file 1562B_11.ppt
Preparation Tasks
To prepare for this module, you should:
Review the contents of this module
Read any relevant information provided in the Windows 2000 Help files, the Windows 2000 Resource Kit, or materials on the Instructor CD
Be familiar with processes and procedures for detection, notification, and response to both critical and noncritical variations in network services
Be familiar with strategies for generating information about the status of the network services
Understand methods for analyzing the collected data
Be familiar with reactive and proactive responses to status information
Review discussion and demonstration material and be prepared to lead class discussions on the topics
Read the review questions and be prepared to elaborate beyond the answers provided in the text
Presentation:
75 Minutes
Lab:
00 Minutes
Trang 4Module Strategy
Use the following strategy to present this module
Defining Management Strategies
A successful management plan for network services includes strategies that permit detection of, and response to, changes in the network services The management strategies define policies, procedures, and processes that permit the network administrator to respond to, verify, and anticipate variations in the service
In this section:
• Explain that the highest priority in a management plan must be to detect and respond to critical events such as service or network failures The need to monitor design compliance and anticipate the need for design changes is a lower priority Point out that strategies for responses to service variations can be reactive, proactive, manual, or automatic
• Emphasize that management strategies must define processes to respond
to the service variations automatically, or provide notification to operations staff for manual responses
• Point out that verifying compliance with the design specifications requires both the monitoring and testing of the services
• Emphasize that requirements for the services infrastructure will change over time as needs for resources change Operations staff can use collected information about the consumption of resources to anticipate the need for changes to the network design
• Point out that the management plan must include processes to provide feedback and control of the network services infrastructure The processes must be designed to obtain the current status of the services, verify service compliance, and predict trends
Identifying Management Processes The management plan must include processes to provide feedback and control of the network services infrastructure The processes must be designed to obtain the current status of the services, verify compliance of the service operation, and respond to service variations Emphasize that any plan to monitor and respond to service variations is often part of a larger management system, such as Microsoft Systems Management Server, or third-party management solutions
Generating Information on the Status of the Services Emphasize that obtaining the operational status of a service requires information about individual service providers and network conditions, and verification that client requests receive appropriate responses
In this section:
• Emphasize that the collection of status information for analysis is critical
to the process of monitoring the individual services and the overall network
• Point out that command-line network tools and utilities can be used to test and analyze service and network operation and variation Explain that these tools and utilities can be used interactively, or their output stored in files for later analysis
Trang 5• Explain that System Monitor, which is found within the Performance console allows you to obtain real-time data and collect logs
• Make sure students understand the illustration, scenario description, and directions for the Discussion Direct them to read through the scenario and answer the questions Be prepared to clarify if necessary Lead a class discussion on the students’ responses
• Emphasize that Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can be used to both derive the status of hosts and control hosts in a
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network Point out that in a Windows 2000 network, SNMP is an optional component Emphasize that SNMP may be required to support services
if the infrastructure has devices that are already managed and configured
by using SNMP
• Emphasize that Event logs are useful to calculate uptime based on service stop/starts, and to analyze errors and status changes Point out that the Event Log service starts automatically when you start
Windows 2000
• Emphasize that acquiring the necessary status information requires the automated accumulation of logs, or the running of command-line utilities and programs Discuss the use of scripts and programs to provide scheduled automation
• Emphasize that Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provides
a single point of integration through which status information from many sources within a computer can be accessed Mention the sample scripts on the Student CD
Analyzing the Collected Data The status of the network services can be generated from real-time data, accumulated logs, and calculated result sets The analysis processes, either manual or automatic, draw on the collected status information to create a final result set This result set can then be used to respond to service variations
Selecting Response Strategies Emphasize that the time taken to return a service to full operation is a function of the time taken to detect and respond to the failure, and the time
to repair Point out that minimizing the time taken to detect and respond to service variations, or to provide automated responses to service variations, can reduce the impact of failures and variations
Trang 7Overview
Defining Management Strategies
Identifying Management Processes
Generating Information on the Status of the Services
Analyzing the Collected Data
Selecting Response Strategies
An essential component of a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 networking services infrastructure design is the management of the network services An effective management plan for network services can ensure that the functionality, security, availability, and performance of the network services, and the network, continue to meet the specifications of your infrastructure design
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
Define strategies for managing the network services
Identify the processes used to execute a management plan
Select the appropriate methods to generate information about the status of the services
Select the appropriate methods to analyze collected data
Select appropriate response strategies
In this module, you will
evaluate and develop the
management strategies
required to manage a
Windows 2000 networking
services infrastructure
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Management StrategiesMonitor All DNS Activity
Responding to Service Variations
Verifying Compliance with Design
Anticipating Changes to a Design
Management Plan for DNS
Policies, Procedures, Processes
Policies, Procedures, Processes
Policies, Procedures, Processes
A management plan for network services is generated from strategies and permits detection of, and response to, changes in the network services Your management plan defines policies, procedures, and processes that permit you to respond to, verify, and anticipate variations in the service
The highest priority in your management plan must be to detect and respond to critical events such as service or network failures At a lower priority, you must monitor design compliance and anticipate the need for design changes The strategies defining your management plan can specify reactive, proactive, manual, or automatic responses to service variations
The management plan for network services is only one component of a larger network management plan The larger plan manages the network and
applications that are supported in the organization You must give consideration
to how the services management plan integrates with any larger network management plan
A services management plan includes strategies for:
Responding to service variations as they occur
Verifying that current operations are compliant with the design specifications
Anticipating the need for changes to the network services design
Management strategies must include processes and procedures used to continuously acquire the current status, analyze the collected data, and specify appropriate responses
strategies must define
processes and procedures
for detection, notification,
and response to both critical
and noncritical variations in
network services
Trang 9Responding to Service Variations
Services and Servers Unavailable
Client Requests Not Resolved
Threshold Values Exceeded
Calculated Values Outside Specification
You must detect network service variations, such as the failure of a service, and respond appropriately to restore operation Your strategies must define
processes to respond to the service variations automatically, or provide notification to operations staff for manual responses
Typically, immediate detection, notification, and responses are required when:
Services or servers are unavailable
Client requests for services fail
Threshold values are exceeded
Calculated values are outside the specifications
Wherever possible, an effective management plan defines processes to detect
and respond to service variations before failure occurs
Immediate notifications of service variations are required when operations staff must make the response If your strategies include processes to automate responses to service variations, these processes must also include notifications
to operations staff of automated system responses that have occurred
Slide Objective
To describe typical service
variations that require
immediate detection and
response strategies
Lead-in
Your management plan
must determine which
service variations require
immediate detection, along
with the required responses
to these variations
Ask students to give
examples of services and
threshold values that are
critical in their organizations
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You can design your management plan to verify compliance with the design specifications either manually or automatically To verify that services are operating within the required specifications, it may be necessary to analyze both threshold values and accumulated data
Manual Testing
You cannot verify some aspects of a design, such as the testing of server redundancy, by using automatically collected data These design aspects require the definition of the appropriate manual processes and procedures to ensure that the services are compliant
Scheduled Audits, Availability, and Redundancy Tests
The security and access permissions for a service are often modified over time You can conduct regular audits to ascertain compliance with security, and access design specifications
If the service infrastructure consists of multiple servers providing redundancy and load balancing, tests will confirm compliance with the design
specifications Your compliance testing procedures can specify that servers or services be stopped to test the response of either automated or manual reconfiguration procedures
Slide Objective
To describe how to ensure
that functionality, security,
availability, and
performance are within the
design specifications
Lead-in
To verify compliance with
the design specifications,
you must include both the
monitoring and testing of the
services
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Include monitoring processes in your management plan to measure service uptime, service performance, and service-to-service interaction The operations staff can use these measurements to verify compliance with the design
Service-to-service interaction
You must monitor interaction between services, such as replication between multiple WINS servers, or DNS to WINS query traffic, to ensure compliance with the specifications Your management plan must include analysis of replication schedules, replication traffic, and service interaction traffic
Trang 12Anticipating Service Infrastructure Design Changes
Change Design?
Change Design?
Collected Data
Collected Data
Analysis
Router
The resources required to support the services infrastructure, and the requirements of the infrastructure, can change over time For example, a WINS database requires more disk resources as the database grows In addition, day-to-day operations management, and automatic changes, can alter the services infrastructure enough to require design changes Although most of these changes are minor, over time, the cumulative effect can be significant
Include in your management strategies processes to measure the change in resource needs for your services The measurement processes require the accumulation of information about the consumption of resources over time Operations staff uses this information to anticipate the need for changes to the network design
For example, when you release a new application to users, it might increase the load on the DNS service Monitoring the response of the DNS service will show
a decrease in performance as the client load increases Although the DNS service might currently comply with the design specifications, monitored data shows a trend indicating that redesign is necessary to support this new application
If you must design your management plan to predict the need for future changes to the design specifications, you must include processes for trend analysis by using the monitored data
Slide Objective
To describe the possible
methods of anticipating the
need for changes to the
services network design
Lead-in
In your strategy, you must
include the processes
necessary to anticipate
when design changes will
be required
Note
Trang 13Identifying Management Processes
Status of the Services
Analysis of Relevant Data
Response to Service Variations
Status
Analysis Response
You must design processes in your management plan to provide feedback and control of the network services infrastructure For example, you need
immediate warning when a required service stops so that the appropriate action can be taken to restore operation
Design the processes for your management plan to:
Obtain the current status of the services or the services infrastructure
Analyze collected data to verify service operation and compliance with the design, and use trend analysis to predict when compliance will be
compromised
Respond to service variations to bring services back into compliance
Any plan to monitor and respond to service variations is often part of a larger management system, such as Microsoft Systems Management Server, or third-party management solutions
The acquisition of status information, along with the analysis of data, can be automated or manual
You must design processes
in your management plan to
monitor the status of the
services, analyze collected
data, and respond to service
variations
Note
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Data Collection Strategies
Tools and Utilities
Performance Logs and Alerts
Discussion: Acquiring Data with Logs and Alerts
SNMP
Event Logs
Scripting and Programming Solutions
Windows Management Instrumentation
To obtain the operational status of a service requires information about individual service providers and network conditions, and verification that client requests receive appropriate responses When the data available from a single source is not extensive enough to give a complete picture of service operation, you can use a combination of several tools and sources to derive the status
To obtain the necessary information for assessing a service, you can use the following sources:
Data collection strategies
Tools and utilities
Performance Logs and Alerts
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Event logs
Scripting and programming solutions
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Slide Objective
To describe how to establish
the status of the services
Lead-in
You can use a combination
of tools and sources to
obtain status information
about the individual service
providers and the overall
network
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In-band data collection The status data flows across the same network that
is used for services and user data This data flow will impact the network if large amounts of data are collected, or network failures occur
Out-of-band data collection The status data flows through separate logical
or physical network connections The data collection network is not affected
by failures in the network being used for services and user data
Select in-band data collection when the network infrastructure is tolerant, or has redundant paths Use an out-of-band strategy when the network
failure-infrastructure is not fault tolerant, and the network failures would prevent data collection
Slide Objective
To describe the strategies
available for the collection of
status information about
services
Lead-in
You need to design
strategies to accumulate
status information about
services and the overall
network
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In a centralized monitoring strategy, the status data is accumulated and analyzed at a central location This central location can be a management station or a central node within a larger management system; it is typically a host running a set of management tools and programs Centralized data collection increases network usage, which can degrade network performance In the case of a network failure, no status data will be available
If the centralized data collection strategy is designed to operate even when
network and node failures exist, then you must plan to use out-of-band data
collection This means providing different paths for data collection For example, you can use a series of dial-up modems, or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) connections, that are not part of the normal data network for data collection
Distributed Data Collection
A distributed monitoring strategy accumulates the data on many nodes within the services infrastructure This accumulation allows the data to be processed before being sent to a management node, thereby significantly reducing the amount of data that is processed at the management node Collecting the status
at distributed locations allows localized responses to failures This can be important when the strategy must allow for the independent operation of locations when network failures occur
Generated Events
Event notification requires that the monitored service provide information about its current status, or that some external software is used to monitor the service for status changes Active service monitoring can generate events, send event notification, and in some cases, automatically restart a service
Performance Logs and Alerts events
System Monitor allows events to be generated by running an application when set thresholds are exceeded This allows status information to be written to a log file, thereby providing an event that is sent directly to the operations staff or to
an intermediary monitoring application
Service monitor events
The service monitors available for use depend on which products are installed Service recovery and monitoring is built into the Windows 2000 operating system and is provided in products such as Microsoft Exchange Server On detecting a failure, service monitors restart the failed services, restart the server,
or run a program to send notification of failure events
SNMP events
Adding SNMP to Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) allows use of SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) definitions to assess the current service operation When SNMP is installed on a Windows 2000–based computer, SNMP traps may be generated based on the events written to the Event logs and defined in the MIB for that particular service
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Status Information
Tools and Utilities
WAN Link
Router
You can use command-line network tools and utilities to test the status of both the services and the network infrastructure You can use the information collected by these tools and utilities to analyze service and network operation and variation You can use the tools and utilities interactively or store their output in files for later analysis
You can use the following tools interactively to provide status information:
Network Monitor A tool used to monitor the network data stream for all of
the information (called frames or packets) that is transferred over a network
The Network Monitor supplied with Windows 2000 captures data sent to and from the computer on which it is running The version of Network Monitor available with Microsoft Systems Management Server can capture all network data
Netdiag A utility that performs a series of tests to isolate networking and
connectivity problems; it is also used to determine the functional state of your network client Netdiag does extensive testing of the computer on which it is run, including checking the availability of WINS and DNS Netdiag is installed with the support tools, which are available in the
\Support\Tools directory of your Windows 2000 CD
Ping A utility used to troubleshoot IP-level connectivity Ping allows you to
specify the size of packets to use (the default is 32 bytes), how many to send, whether to record the route used, what Time to Live (TTL) value to use, and whether to set the "don't fragment" flag Ping provides a minimum average and maximum roundtrip time (RTT), which is useful to analyze where routing delays occur
Tracert A route-tracing utility that displays a list of nearside router
interfaces from the routers along the path between a source host and a destination Tracert uses the IP TTL field in Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Requests and ICMP Time Exceeded messages to determine the path from a source to a destination through an IP
internetwork
Slide Objective
To describe the tools and
utilities that can be used to
generate network and
service status information
Lead-in
You can use a variety of
network tools and utilities to
analyze the operational
status of the network
services
Trang 18Pathping A route-tracing tool that combines the features of Ping and
Tracert with additional unique information Over a period of time, Pathping sends packets to each router on the path to a final destination, and then computes results based on the packets returned from each hop Pathping shows the degree of packet loss at any given router or link, so you can pinpoint which routers or links might be causing network problems
Nslookup A utility used for troubleshooting DNS problems, such as host
name resolution failure Nslookup displays a command prompt and shows the host name and IP address of the local DNS server You can then perform interactive queries to test DNS name resolution
Netstat A utility used to display protocol statistics and current TCP/IP
connections You can display the connection status and throughput statistics for TCP/IP interfaces in the computer
Nbtstat A utility that displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP
connections that use NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) When a network is functioning normally, NetBT resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses
Trang 19Performance Logs and Alerts
Server Performance
Network Performance
Infrastructure Performance
Centralized Collection
Distributed Collection
System Monitor, which is found within the Performance Console, allows you to obtain real-time data and collect logs The Performance Console also includes Performance Logs and Alerts to provide logging and notification of changes in
a service It does this by setting triggers on appropriate counters You can automate the collection process by specifying a schedule
System Monitor and Performance Logs and Alerts support a large number of objects, and can access counters covering many aspects of an object’s operation You can select the objects and counters to suit your particular infrastructure DHCP, WINS, DNS, and RAS Objects exist to supply the status
on these services
System Monitor log files can be generated on individual servers, or the data can
be obtained from multiple servers by a single instance of System Monitor, and written to a centralized log To ensure the smallest file sizes, always log data by using the binary format
You can select a strategy for data collection:
Centralized, if the number of counters is low, the collection interval is long,
Slide Objective
To describe how
Performance Logs and
Alerts can be used to obtain
data and trigger alerts
Lead-in
You can use Performance
Logs and Alerts to obtain
real-time data, and to collect
data logs
Note