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Operations Managementin the Application Lifecycle

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Agenda

• Overview Dev/Ops

• SCOM 2012– Monitoring applications– Integration with TFS

• PreEmptive Analytics

• IntelliTrace in Production

Application Lifecycle Management in 2012

Define• Requirements• Validation• Prioritization• Release Plan

Develop• Iteration Plan• Develop• Test

Operate• Monitor• Support• Upgrade

DefineIdeation

OperateDeployment to feedback

DevelopIdea to working software

• PowerPoint Storyboarding• Agile Planning

• Suspend & Resume• Code Reviews• Feedback Collection• Unit Testing• Exploratory Testing• Continuous Integrations• Continuous Deployments

• SCOM Integration• IntelliTrace in Production• PreEmptive Analytics

A day in the life…

Hello, Help desk? The application is broken… again.

Ok… We’ll get right on it…

Hmmm… Server looks fine.

Network is good. Must be the app…

Hey Development? Your app is broken

again. Please fix it.

WTF??? Here we go

again…

Agenda

• Overview Dev/Ops

• SCOM 2012– Monitoring applications– Integration with TFS

• PreEmptive Analytics

• IntelliTrace in Production

“The App” in the world of Infrastructure

• Operations/IT supports Infrastructure & Applications– Infrastructure supports applications– The Cloud is shifting focus to the application

• Applications aren’t inherently easily monitored– Application instrumentation is an afterthought– Instrumentation is inconsistent

• IT can’t be an expert on each application

What is System Center?

• System Center is a family of operations management applications

• Historically used to monitor system and network health

• SC 2012 Supports:– Infrastructure management and

monitoring– System deployment and

configuration automation– Application Management

• Application Performance Management (APM)– Integrated in 2012– Leverages AVICode purchase

from October 2010– Supports .NET and Java

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.NET APM with SCOM 2012

Operations Manager

reports issues

Bridge the Gap between Ops and Dev

APM with System Center Operations Manager:

• Out of box App Discovery and Monitoring

• Help IT isolate and triage application issues

• No noticeable impact on throughput of the app

• Less than 5% CPU impact for the managed server

• No need to write custom SC management packs or instrument the code

• Useful information for efficient escalation to development

Hmmm… It looks like an application problem. Let me send you some actionable information so that we can resolve

the issue quickly!

Wow… This is enough useful information

that I might be able to fix this today!

DEMONSTRATION

SCOM 2012 and TFS

• Capturing application events in SCOM 2012

• Assigning to Development

• Reviewing issues in TFS

• Closing the loop

Agenda

• Overview Dev/Ops

• SCOM 2012– Monitoring applications– Integration with TFS

• PreEmptive Analytics

• IntelliTrace in Production

What is PreEmptive Analytics?

• PreEmptive Solutions has been know for their Dotfuscator obfuscation tools

• PreEmptive Analytics (PA) Runtime Intelligence Service was released in 2010:– What features are people

using – Where in the world are they – When are they using it – What are their machines like

• PreEmptive Analytics (PA) for TFS provides incident tracking for Team Foundation Server

PreEmptive Analytics for TFS

• Runtime data transmitted from instrumented applications– Binaries are instrumented after the compilation process– Instrumentation supports existing and emerging platforms– Integrated into optimization and security platforms as needed– Built-in support for personal privacy and opt-in policy enforcement

• Data is filtered and aggregated based on rules and forwarded to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server as work items– Aggregates and analyzes exceptions and automatically creates work

items based upon your rules and operational thresholds. – Can respond within seconds or in cadence with your development sprint.

• Intelligent, feedback-driven development– Understand how the app is behaving in production– Developers can prioritize fixes based on quantitative data

• Community Edition – Free and out-of-the-box with TFS 2012

A day in the life… with PA

Hmmm… The application is throwing some

exceptions – I should let the development team

know.

PA for TFS Installation

• Install:– Log into the TFS Application Tier and Access TFS Admin

Console – Click the installation link and walk through the wizard– Provide an account used to create/sync Work Items– Provide an endpoint

(e.g., VSALM:8000/message/EndPoint.ashx)

• Configure:– Add a TFS and collection– Apply team project(s)

• Create the Incident Work Item Type• Creates the All Incidents Work Item Query• Adds two reports

– As needed, modify exception sets

Configuring Assemblies for Instrumentation

• Optionally, add the PreEmptive functional attributes in the source code– Reference the PreEmptive.Attributes assembly– Add a Setup attribute to a startup method:

[PreEmptive.Attributes.Setup(CustomEndpoint=“vsalm:8000/message/EndPoint.ashx”)]

– Add a Teardown attribute to a shutdown method:[PreEmptive.Attributes.TearDown()]

– Build the .NET solution

• Create and build a Dotfuscator project– Select the input assemblies– For each assembly to report on…

• Add an ExceptionTrackAttribute• Add a BusinessAttribute with the CompanyKey GUID• Add a ApplicationAttribute with the Application GUID• Optionally, add functional attributes to setup and tear down

– Build the project

PreEmptive Analytics Incident Reports

• Available as “Incident” work items in TFS– Work Item type and query

installed with server– Uses a custom work item

control to display details

• Provides standard reports for viewing summary data:– Incidents Over Time– Open Incidents

• Incident data includes:– Applications– Businesses– Components– Faults– Chain of exceptions– Stack trace

DEMONSTRATION

PreEmptive Analytics

• Installing and configuring the server

• Instrumenting the client

PA for TFS - Community Edition Restrictions

• Community edition is limited to:– On-premises data repository– One TFS Instance– Two Team Projects– Three rules per Project– .NET Only

• Professional (paid) edition includes:– Customizable exception rule types– Thrown and caught exception processing– Custom data support– Java, Win 32/64 C++ or JavaScript– SSL Support– Technical Support

Agenda

• Overview Dev/Ops

• SCOM 2012– Monitoring applications– Integration with TFS

• PreEmptive Analytics

• IntelliTrace in Production

What is IntelliTrace?

• “Application flight recorder”– Captures events during application execution

• Dynamically instruments code– Can capture selected events– Can also capture call information (more intensive)

• Records program execution flow

• Records program data – parameters & return values

• Supports analysis and replay of the logs from within the Visual Studio debugger

What is IntelliTrace?

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ApplicationInstrumentation

(Manual)Log File

Without IntelliTrace

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With IntelliTrace • Record• Playback• Rewind

IntelliTrace

IntelliTrace in 2010 and 2012

• In Visual Studio 2010– Highly configurable

• Capture selected events• Can capture call information

– Can be used in development, directly from Visual Studio

– From a test environment, log files can be captured and replayed in Visual Studio

• In Visual Studio 2012– All of the above– Can be used in production– No “installation” required– Uses PowerShell scripts:

• Start Collection• Get Collection Status• Stop Collection

DEMONSTRATION

IntelliTrace in Production

• ‘Install’ IntelliTrace

• Prepare the server

• Turn on IntelliTrace

• Capture the events

• Turn off IntelliTrace

• Review the results in development

Summary

• One of the next gaps being bridged by Microsoft with Visual Studio 2012 is Development Operations

• Visual Studio 2012 integrates with Microsoft System Center 2012– System Center supports Application Performance Management– Issues reported in TFS directly from operations and SCOM

• Microsoft partner PreEmptive has released PreEmptive Analytics for TFS which will allow your applications to “phone home” directly without IT involvement

• Microsoft has expanded IntelliTrace so that actionable logs can be captured in production and then consumed by developers for troubleshooting.

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