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• Oracle Products Reflect Key Trends Shaping Enterprise 2.0

  - by kellsey.ruppel(at)oracle.com

  Following up on his predictions for 2011, we asked Enterprise 2.0 veteran Andy MacMillan to map out the ways Oracle solutions are at the forefront of industry trends--and how Oracle customers can benefit in the coming year. 1. Increase organizational awareness | Oracle WebCenter Suite Oracle WebCenter Suite provides a unique set of capabilities to drive organizational awareness. In particular, the expansive activity graph connects users directly to key enterprise applications, activities, and interests. In this way, applicable and critical business information is automatically and immediately visible--in the context of key tasks--via real-time dashboards and comprehensive reporting. Oracle WebCenter Suite also integrates key E2.0 services, such as blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds, into critical business processes, including back-office systems of records such as ERP and CRM systems. 2. Drive online customer engagement | Oracle Real-Time Decisions With more and more business being conducted on the Web, driving increased online customer engagement becomes a critical key to success. This effort is usually spearheaded by an increasingly important executive role, the Head of Online, who usually reports directly to the CMO. To help manage the Web experience online, Oracle solutions are driving a new kind of intelligent social commerce by combining Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle WebCenter Services, and Oracle Real-Time Decisions with leading e-commerce and product recommendations. Oracle Real-Time Decisions provides multichannel recommendations for content, products, and services--including seamless integration across Web, mobile, and social channels. The result: happier customers, increased customer acquisition and retention, and improved critical success metrics such as shopping cart abandonment. 3. Easily build composite applications | Oracle Application Development Framework Thanks to the shared user experience strategy across Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Fusion Applications and many other Oracle Applications, customers can easily create real, customer-specific composite applications using Oracle WebCenter Suite and Oracle Application Development Framework. Oracle Application Development Framework components provide modular user interface components that can build rich, social composite applications. In addition, a broad set of components spanning BPM, SOA, ECM, and beyond can be quickly and easily incorporated into composite applications. 4. Integrate records management into a global content platform | Oracle Enterprise Content Management 11g Oracle Enterprise Content Management 11g provides leading records management capabilities as part of a unified ECM platform for managing records, documents, Web content, digital assets, enterprise imaging, and application imaging. This unique strategy provides comprehensive records management in a consistent, cost-effective way, and enables organizations to consolidate ECM repositories and connect ECM to critical business applications. 5. Achieve ECM at extreme scale | Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Exadata To support the high-performance demands of a unified and rationalized content platform, Oracle has pioneered highly scalable and high-performing ECM infrastructures. Two innovations in particular helped make this happen. The core ECM platform itself moved to an Enterprise Java architecture, so organizations can now use Oracle WebLogic Server for enhanced scalability and manageability. Oracle Enterprise Content Management 11g can leverage Oracle Exadata for extreme performance and scale. Likewise, Oracle Exalogic--Oracle's foundation for cloud computing--enables extreme performance for processor-intensive capabilities such as content conversion or dynamic Web page delivery. Learn more about Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 solutions.

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• links for 2010-12-08

  - by Bob Rhubart

  What's a data architect? A comic dialog by one who knows: Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham. Webcast: Oracle Business Intelligence Forum - December 15, 2010 at 9:00 am PT "The Oracle Business Intelligence Online Forum is a half-day virtual event that offers you a unique opportunity to see, in one place, the full portfolio of Oracle’s Business Intelligence (BI) offerings, and to learn what sets Oracle apart from the rest. Hear Oracle executives and industry analyst, Howard Dresner, present the current state of Business Intelligence, along with a series of customers who will share their case studies of putting analytics in action." Oracle Rolls Out Private Cloud Architecture And World-Record Transaction Performance | Forrester Blogs "Exadata has been dealt with extensively in other venues, both inside Forrester and externally, and appears to deliver the goods for I&O groups who require efficient consolidation and maximum performance from an Oracle database environment." -- Richard Fichera, Forrester Seven ways to get things started: Java EE Startup Classes with GlassFish and WebLogic "This is a blog about a topic that I realy don't like. But it comes across my ways over and over again and it's no doubt that you need it from time to time. Enough reasons for me to collect some information about it and publish it for your reference. I am talking about Startup-/Shutdown classes with Java EE applications or servers." -- Oracle ACE Director Markus "@myfear" Eisele." Monitoring Undelivered Messages in BPEL in SOA 10g (Antony Reynolds' Blog) "I am currently working with a client that wants to know how many undelivered messages they have, and if it reaches a certain threshold then they wants to alert the operator. To do this they plan on using the Enterprise Manager alert functions, but first they needs to know how many undelivered instances are out there." SOA author Antony Reynolds VirtualBox Appliances for Developers "Developers can simply download a few files, assemble them with a script , and then import and run the resulting pre-built VM in VirtualBox. This makes starting with these technologies even easier. Each appliance contains some Hands-On-Labs to start learning." -- Peter Paul van de Beek Oracle UCM 11g Remote Intradoc Client (RIDC) Integration with Oracle ADF 11g "It's great we have out of the box WebCenter ADF task flows for document management in UCM. However, for complete business scenario implementations, usually it's not enough and we need to manage Content Repository programmatically. This can be achieved through Remote Intradoc Client (RIDC) API. It's quite hard to find any practical information about this API, but I managed to get code for UCM folder creation/removal and folder information." -- Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis Interview with Java Champion Matjaz B. Juric on Cloud Computing, SOA, and Java EE 6 "Matjaz Juric of Slovenia, head of the Cloud Computing and SOA Competence Centre at the University of Maribor, and professor at the University of Ljubljana, shares insights about cloud computing, SOA and Java EE 6." White Paper: Oracle Complex Event Processing High Availability "This whitepaper describes the high availability (HA) solutions available in Oracle CEP 11g Release 1 Patch Set 2 and  presents the results of a benchmark study demonstrating the performance of the Oracle CEP HA solutions."

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• UPK Hands-on Labs at OHUG

  - by Karen Rihs

  Going to OHUG, June 18-22? Be sure to attend one or more UPK hands-on labs! Choose from Basic, Advanced, What's New, and Prebuilt Content!   Oracle User Productivity Kit 11.1 Workshop – Basic Stephen Armbruster, Oracle Corporation June 19, 2012, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. June 20, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. The User Productivity Kit (UPK) is a comprehensive, cost-effective, customizable solution that helps your organization quickly create the critical documentation, training, and support materials needed to drive project team and user productivity throughout the lifecycle of your software. The User Productivity Kit provides system process documentation, user acceptance test scripts, comprehensive instructor-led training materials, web-based training materials, role-based performance support, and complete documentation. Also provided is the UPK Developer, which serves as a single-source development and customization tool to enable rapid content creation and customization. The User Productivity Kit delivers: Business process documentation for fit-gap analysis - providing time and cost savings that jump-start your implementation or upgrade User Acceptance test scripts to help test applications prior to go-live State-of-the-art instructional design tools to rapidly build and tailor documentation, instructor-led training materials, and web-based training to fit organizational needs Live-application performance support with transactional and procedural information to maximize user efficiency. By registering for this hands-on UPK workshop, participants will use UPK to build an application job aid and simulation that can be used as performance support for the application. But hurry, space is limited! Oracle User Productivity Kit 11.1 Workshop – Advanced Stephen Armbruster, Oracle Corporation June 20, 2012, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. This special workshop is for those already familiar with UPK and will cover advanced concepts. In this workshop, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of working with the UPK Developer. Following this workshop, you will be able to: Create publishing categories Add a logo to a publishing project Publish using the newly created category Configure your own library view Manage topic history in a multi-user environment Oracle User Productivity Kit 11.1 Workshop – What’s NEW! Stephen Armbruster, Oracle Corporation June 19, 2012, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. June 21, 2012, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. This special workshop is for those already familiar with UPK and will focus on the new features included in the latest version 11.1. In this workshop, you will review most of the new features included in the UPK Developer. Oracle User Productivity Kit 11.1 Workshop – Prebuilt Content Stephen Armbruster, Oracle Corporation June 19, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. June 21, 2012, 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. This special workshop is for those already familiar with UPK and will focus on the latest version 11.1. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to demonstrate how to: Import prebuilt content Modify content frames Add a decision frame Translate a topic into Spanish Stephen Armbruster is a principal sales consultant, specializing in HCM and UPK applications for Oracle over the past twelve years. In addition to his current role, he serves as an ambassador for the Fusion User Experience (UX) team and is tasked with evangelizing the UX for end users across all Oracle brands (Fusion, PSFT, JDE, and EBS).  He is also a trusted advisor to Oracle’s Product Management teams related to Learning Management Systems (LMS). Prior to joining Oracle, he was an instructor as well as an instructional technologist working in the medical diagnostics, high tech, and information management industries. As an expert in both LMS and UPK, he regularly speaks at Oracle conferences including Oracle OpenWorld and OHUG on topics that span using Oracle solutions to accomplish employee training, certification, and user adoption. His presentations are both entertaining and engaging.

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• What's New in Oracle's EPM System?

  - by jmorourke

  Oracle’s EPM System R11.1.2.2  is now generally available to customers and partners on the download center.  Although the release number doesn’t sound significant, this is a major release of Oracle’s Hyperion EPM Suite with new modules as well as significant enhancements across the suite.  This release was announced back on April 4th as part of Oracle’s Business Analytics Strategy launch, so analytics is a key aspect of the release.  But the three biggest pieces of news in this release are Oracle Hyperion Planning support for the Exalytics In-Memory Machine, the new Project Financial Planning Application and the new Account Reconciliations Manager module. The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine was announced back in October 2011, at Oracle OpenWorld.  It’s the latest installment from Oracle in a line of engineered systems that combine Oracle Sun hardware, with Oracle database and application technologies – in solutions that are designed to provide high scalability and performance for specific tasks.  Exalytics is the first engineered system specifically designed for high performance analytics.  Running in-memory versions of Oracle Essbase, as well as the Oracle TimesTen database and Oracle BI tools, Exalytics provides speed of thought response times for complex analytic processes with advanced visualizations.  Early adopter customers have achieved 5X to 100X faster interactivity and 6X to 10X faster planning cycles.  Hyperion Planning running with Oracle Exalytics will support enterprise-wide planning, budgeting and forecasting with more detailed data, with hundreds to thousands of users across an organization getting speed of thought performance. The new Hyperion Project Financial Planning application delivered with EPM 11.1.2.2 is also great news for Oracle customers.  This application follows on the heels of other special-purpose planning applications that Oracle has delivered for Workforce and Capital Asset planning.  It allows Project Managers to identify project-related expenses and revenues, plan and propose new projects, and track results over time. Finance Managers can evaluate and compare different projects, manage the funding process, monitor and report the actual financial results and impacts of projects and project portfolios. This new application is applicable to capital projects, contract projects and indirect projects like IT and HR projects across all industries.  This application is a great complement to existing Project Management applications, and helps bridge the gap between these applications, and the financial planning and budgeting process. Account reconciliations has to be one of the biggest bottlenecks and risks in the financial close and reporting process, and many organizations rely on spreadsheets and manual processes to perform this critical process.  To help address this problem, Oracle developed an Account Reconciliation Manager module that is being delivered as part of Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management.   This module helps automate and streamline account reconciliations and eliminates the chances for errors, omissions and fraud.  But unlike standalone account reconciliation packages, it’s integrated with the rest of the Oracle Hyperion Financial Close suite, and can integrate balances from any source system.  This can help alleviate a major bottleneck in the financial close process, increase accuracy and reduce risk, and can complement existing investments in Hyperion Financial Management, as well as Oracle and non-Oracle transaction processing systems. Other enhancements in this release include an enhanced Web 2.0 interface for Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), configurable dimensionality in HFM, new Predictive Planning feature in Hyperion Planning, new Detailed Profitability feature in Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management, new Smart View interface for Hyperion Strategic Finance, and integration of the Hyperion applications with JD Edwards Financials. For more information about Oracle EPM System R11.1.2.2 check out the links below: Press Release:  http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1575775 Product Information on O.com:  http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/business-analytics/overview/index.html Product Information on OTN:  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/epm/downloads/index.html Webcast Replay:  http://www.oracle.com/us/go/index.html?Src=7317510&Act=65&pcode=WWMK11054701MPP046 Please contact me if you have any questions or need additional information – [email protected]

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• T-SQL in Chicago – the LobsterPot teams with DataEducation

  - by Rob Farley

  In May, I’ll be in the US. I have board meetings for PASS at the SQLRally event in Dallas, and then I’m going to be spending a bit of time in Chicago. The big news is that while I’m in Chicago (May 14-16), I’m going to teach my “Advanced T-SQL Querying and Reporting: Building Effectiveness” course. This is a course that I’ve been teaching since the 2005 days, and have modified over time for 2008 and 2012. It’s very much my most popular course, and I love teaching it. Let me tell you why. For years, I wrote queries and thought I was good at it. I was a developer. I’d written a lot of C (and other, more fun languages like Prolog and Lisp) at university, and then got into the ‘real world’ and coded in VB, PL/SQL, and so on through to C#, and saw SQL (whichever database system it was) as just a way of getting the data back. I could write a query to return just about whatever data I wanted, and that was good. I was better at it than the people around me, and that helped. (It didn’t help my progression into management, then it just became a frustration, but for the most part, it was good to know that I was good at this particular thing.) But then I discovered the other side of querying – the execution plan. I started to learn about the translation from what I’d written into the plan, and this impacted my query-writing significantly. I look back at the queries I wrote before I understood this, and shudder. I wrote queries that were correct, but often a long way from effective. I’d done query tuning, but had largely done it without considering the plan, just inferring what indexes would help. This is not a performance-tuning course. It’s focused on the T-SQL that you read and write. But performance is a significant and recurring theme. Effective T-SQL has to be about performance – it’s the biggest way that a query becomes effective. There are other aspects too though – such as using constructs better. For example – I can write code that modifies data nicely, but if I haven’t learned about the MERGE statement and the way that it can impact things, I’m missing a few tricks. If you’re going to do this course, a good place to be is the situation I was in a few years before I wrote this course. You’re probably comfortable with writing T-SQL queries. You know how to make a SELECT statement do what you need it to, but feel there has to be a better way. You can write JOINs easily, and understand how to use LEFT JOIN to make sure you don’t filter out rows from the first table, but you’re coding blind. The first module I cover is on Query Execution. Take a look at the Course Outline at Data Education’s website. The first part of the first module is on the components of a SELECT statement (where I make you think harder about GROUP BY than you probably have before), but then we jump straight into Execution Plans. Some stuff on indexes is in there too, as is simplification and SARGability. Some of this is stuff that you may have heard me present on at conferences, but here you have me for three days straight. I’m sure you can imagine that we revisit these topics throughout the rest of the course as well, and you’d be right. In the second and third modules we look at a bunch of other aspects, including some of the T-SQL constructs that lots of people don’t know, and various other things that can help your T-SQL be, well, more effective. I’ve had quite a lot of people do this course and be itching to get back to work even on the first day. That’s not a comment about the jokes I tell, but because people want to look at the queries they run. LobsterPot Solutions is thrilled to be partnering with Data Education to bring this training to Chicago. Visit their website to register for the course. @rob_farley

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• Xsigo and Oracle's Storage

  - by Philippe Deverchère

  Xsigo, a virtual network infrastructure provider, has recently been acquired by Oracle. Following this acquisition, one might ask ourselves why it is important to Oracle and how Oracle's storage is going to benefit on the long term from this virtualized infrastructure layer. Well, the first thing to understand is that Virtual Networking addresses both network and storage connectivity. Oracle Virtual Networking, as the Xsigo technology is now called, connects any server to any network and storage, so this is not just about connecting servers to the Internet or Intranet. It is also for a large part connecting servers to NAS and SAN storage. Connecting servers to storage has become increasingly complex in the past few years because of the strong emergence of virtualization at the Operating System level. 50% of enterprise workloads are now virtualized, up from 18% in 2009, resulting in a strong consolidation of various applications in a high density server footprint. At the same time, server I/O capability increased 8x in the last 8 years. All this has pushed IT administrators to multiply the number of I/O connections in the back-end of their physical servers, resulting in a messy and very hard to manage networking infrastructure. Here is a typical view of a rack back-end when no virtual networking is used. We consider that today: - 75% of users have ten or more Ethernet ports per server - 85% of users have two or more SAN ports per server - 58% have had to add connectivity to a server specifically for VMs - 65% consider cable reduction a priority The average is 12 or more ports per server, resulting in an extremely complex infrastructure to manage. What Oracle wants to achieve with its Oracle Virtual Networking offering is pretty simple. The objective is to eliminate the complexity through a dramatic reduction of cabling between servers and storage/networks. It is also to provide a software based management system so that any server can be connected to any network or any storage, on demand, and without physical intervention on the infrastructure. At the end of the day, the picture on the left shows what one wants to get for the back-end of customer's racks: just a couple of connections on each physical server to provide a simple, agile and fast network infrastructure for both storage and networking access. This is exactly what the Oracle Virtual Networking solution does. It transforms a complex, error-prone, difficult to manage and expensive networking infrastructure into a simple, high performance and agile solution for the data center. Practically speaking, and for the sake of simplicity, imagine that each server just hosts a minimal number of physical InfiniBand HCAs (Host Channel Adapter) with two links (for redundancy) onto the Oracle Fabric Interconnect director. Using the Oracle Fabric Manager software, you'll then be able to create virtual NICs and HBAs (called vNIC and vHBA) that will be seen by the servers as standard NICs and HBAs and associate them to networks and storage systems which are physically connected to the back-end of the director through standard Fibre Channel and Ethernet GbE/10GbE ports. In addition to this incredibly simple "at-a-click" connectivity capability, the Oracle Virtual Networking solution offers powerful features such as network isolation, Quality of Service, advanced performance monitoring and non-disruptive reconfiguration, migration and scalability of networking infrastructure. So let's go back now to our initial question: why is Oracle Virtual Networking especially important to Oracle's storage solutions? After all, one could connect any storage in the back-end of the Oracle Fabric Interconnect directors, right? The answer is pretty simple: since Oracle owns both the virtualized networking infrastructure and the storage (ZFS-SA, Pillar Axiom and tape), it is possible to imagine several ways in the future to add value when it comes to connect storage to a virtualized storage network: enhanced storage capabilities, converged management between storage and network, improved diagnostic capabilities and optimized integration resulting in higher performance and unique features/functions. Of course, all this is not going to be done overnight, and future will tell us is which evolutions come first. But there is little doubt that the integration of Xsigo within Oracle is going to create opportunities for Oracle's storage!

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• Abstracting entity caching in XNA

  - by Grofit

  I am in a situation where I am writing a framework in XNA and there will be quite a lot of static (ish) content which wont render that often. Now I am trying to take the same sort of approach I would use when doing non game development, where I don't even think about caching until I have finished my application and realise there is a performance problem and then implement a layer of caching over whatever needs it, but wrap it up so nothing is aware its happening. However in XNA the way we would usually cache would be drawing our objects to a texture and invalidating after a change occurs. So if you assume an interface like so: public interface IGameComponent { void Update(TimeSpan elapsedTime); void Render(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice); } public class ContainerComponent : IGameComponent { public IList<IGameComponent> ChildComponents { get; private set; } // Assume constructor public void Update(TimeSpan elapsedTime) { // Update anything that needs it } public void Render(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice) { foreach(var component in ChildComponents) { // draw every component } } } Then I was under the assumption that we just draw everything directly to the screen, then when performance becomes an issue we just add a new implementation of the above like so: public class CacheableContainerComponent : IGameComponent { private Texture2D cachedOutput; private bool hasChanged; public IList<IGameComponent> ChildComponents { get; private set; } // Assume constructor public void Update(TimeSpan elapsedTime) { // Update anything that needs it // set hasChanged to true if required } public void Render(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice) { if(hasChanged) { CacheComponents(graphicsDevice); } // Draw cached output } private void CacheComponents(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice) { // Clean up existing cache if needed var cachedOutput = new RenderTarget2D(...); graphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(renderTarget); foreach(var component in ChildComponents) { // draw every component } graphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(null); } } Now in this example you could inherit, but your Update may become a bit tricky then without changing your base class to alert you if you had changed, but it is up to each scenario to choose if its inheritance/implementation or composition. Also the above implementation will re-cache within the rendering cycle, which may cause performance stutters but its just an example of the scenario... Ignoring those facts as you can see that in this example you could use a cache-able component or a non cache-able one, the rest of the framework needs not know. The problem here is that if lets say this component is drawn mid way through the game rendering, other items will already be within the default drawing buffer, so me doing this would discard them, unless I set it to be persisted, which I hear is a big no no on the Xbox. So is there a way to have my cake and eat it here? One simple solution to this is make an ICacheable interface which exposes a cache method, but then to make any use of this interface you would need the rest of the framework to be cache aware, and check if it can cache, and to then do so. Which then means you are polluting and changing your main implementations to account for and deal with this cache... I am also employing Dependency Injection for alot of high level components so these new cache-able objects would be spat out from that, meaning no where in the actual game would they know they are caching... if that makes sense. Just incase anyone asked how I expected to keep it cache aware when I would need to new up a cachable entity.

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• HOWTO Turn off SPARC T4 or Intel AES-NI crypto acceleration.

  - by darrenm

  Since we released hardware crypto acceleration for SPARC T4 and Intel AES-NI support we have had a common question come up: 'How do I test without the hardware crypto acceleration?'. Initially this came up just for development use so developers can do unit testing on a machine that has hardware offload but still cover the code paths for a machine that doesn't (our integration and release testing would run on all supported types of hardware anyway).  I've also seen it asked in a customer context too so that we can show that there is a performance gain from the hardware crypto acceleration, (not just the fact that SPARC T4 much faster performing processor than T3) and measure what it is for their application. With SPARC T2/T3 we could easily disable the hardware crypto offload by running 'cryptoadm disable provider=n2cp/0'.  We can't do that with SPARC T4 or with Intel AES-NI because in both of those classes of processor the encryption doesn't require a device driver instead it is unprivileged user land callable instructions. Turns out there is away to do this by using features of the Solaris runtime loader (ld.so.1). First I need to expose a little bit of implementation detail about how the Solaris Cryptographic Framework is implemented in Solaris 11.  One of the new Solaris 11 features of the linker/loader is the ability to have a single ELF object that has multiple different implementations of the same functions that are selected at runtime based on the capabilities of the machine.  The alternate to this is having the application coded to call getisax() and make the choice itself.  We use this functionality of the linker/loader when we build the userland libraries for the Solaris Cryptographic Framework (specifically libmd.so, and the unfortunately misnamed due to historical reasons libsoftcrypto.so) The Solaris linker/loader allows control of a lot of its functionality via environment variables, we can use that to control the version of the cryptographic functions we run.  To do this we simply export the LD_HWCAP environment variable with values that tell ld.so.1 to not select the HWCAP section matching certain features even if isainfo says they are present.  For SPARC T4 that would be: export LD_HWCAP="-aes -des -md5 -sha256 -sha512 -mont -mpul" and for Intel systems with AES-NI support: export LD_HWCAP="-aes" This will work for consumers of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework that use the Solaris PKCS#11 libraries or use libmd.so interfaces directly.  It also works for the Oracle DB and Java JCE.  However does not work for the default enabled OpenSSL "t4" or "aes-ni" engines (unfortunately) because they do explicit calls to getisax() themselves rather than using multiple ELF cap sections. However we can still use OpenSSL to demonstrate this by explicitly selecting "pkcs11" engine  using only a single process and thread.  $ openssl speed -engine pkcs11 -evp aes-128-cbc ... type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 54170.81k 187416.00k 489725.70k 805445.63k 1018880.00k $ LD_HWCAP="-aes" openssl speed -engine pkcs11 -evp aes-128-cbc ... type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 29376.37k 58328.13k 79031.55k 86738.26k 89191.77k We can clearly see the difference this makes in the case where AES offload to the SPARC T4 was disabled. The "t4" engine is faster than the pkcs11 one because there is less overhead (again on a SPARC T4-1 using only a single process/thread - using -multi you will get even bigger numbers). $ openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc ... type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 85526.61k 89298.84k 91970.30k 92662.78k 92842.67k Yet another cool feature of the Solaris linker/loader, thanks Rod and Ali. Note these above openssl speed output is not intended to show the actual performance of any particular benchmark just that there is a significant improvement from using hardware acceleration on SPARC T4. For cryptographic performance benchmarks see the http://blogs.oracle.com/BestPerf/ postings.

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• SQLAuthority News – Speaking at Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference 2013 – Singapore

  - by pinaldave

  Two years ago I spoke at Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference 2011, Singapore and I had a fantastic time to present to the Singapore audience. The session was very well received and lots of interest was generated. The event is back again this year and with much bigger scale. I will be presenting on SQL Server and Sharepoint subject at the conference. Session Details: Title: Performance in 60 Seconds – Database Tricks Every SharePoint Developer & Admin MUST Know Abstract: SharePoint Developers and System Administrators often come across situations where they face a slow server response, even though their hardware specifications are above  par. This session is for all the SharePoint Developers who want their server to perform at blazing fast speed but want to invest very little time to make it happen. We will go over various database tricks which require absolutely no time to master and require practically no SQL coding at all. After attending this session, Developers will only need 60 seconds to improve performance of their database server in their SharePoint implementation. Date and Time: January 18, 20013 - 3:15 PM-4:15 PM Location: Max Atria is located at Singapore Expo, 1 Expo Drive, Singapore Tel 65 6403 2160 This session will cover lots of interesting tips and tricks about SQL Server and SharePoint co-exists together. I promise that every attendee will walk out with a trick which they can walk out of session and directly apply to their production server to improve its performance. The event is going to be again fantastic event – if you are in Singapore – you must not miss this event. If you are planning vacation – this is the right time to take days off and travel to Singapore for vacation. The event features over 30 sessions to choose from, focus on three areas of business gain: Exploring Information, Improving Productivity and Making it Work. This event has an excellent line up of international speakers (speakers traveling from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and India). Register early to reserve a spot at your choice of more than 30 classes taught by Microsoft Certified Masters, MVPs, and other top SharePoint experts! Here I have attempted to answer a few of the questions which every SharePoint professional half: Which sessions suit my skill level? Click here. What sessions are right for me? Click here. Which sessions are of my interests? Click here. Which sessions are on when? Click here. If you register by next Friday, 14, December – you can save $126 on the regular price of the conference. Prizes, Giveaways and … I love conference goodies – I collect them as a souvenir . This event is known for its generous prizes. The first 100 people to register on the day will get a SPECIAL gift at the event. Additionally there are exhibitor booth give away too. Here is the page listing all the prizes and giveaways. Do leave a comment or send me email if you are going to the event, we can sit together and have a coffee. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology

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• World Record Siebel PSPP Benchmark on SPARC T4 Servers

  - by Brian

  Oracle's SPARC T4 servers set a new World Record for Oracle's Siebel Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP) benchmark suite. The result used Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Industry Applications Release 8.1.1.4 and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running Oracle Solaris on three SPARC T4-2 and two SPARC T4-1 servers. The SPARC T4 servers running the Siebel PSPP 8.1.1.4 workload which includes Siebel Call Center and Order Management System demonstrates impressive throughput performance of the SPARC T4 processor by achieving 29,000 users. This is the first Siebel PSPP 8.1.1.4 benchmark supporting 29,000 concurrent users with a rate of 239,748 Business Transactions/hour. The benchmark demonstrates vertical and horizontal scalability of Siebel CRM Release 8.1.1.4 on SPARC T4 servers. Performance Landscape Systems Txn/hr Users Call Center Order Management Response Times (sec) 1 x SPARC T4-1 (1 x SPARC T4 2.85 GHz) – Web 3 x SPARC T4-2 (2 x SPARC T4 2.85 GHz) – App/Gateway 1 x SPARC T4-1 (1 x SPARC T4 2.85 GHz) – DB 239,748 29,000 0.165 0.925 Oracle: Call Center + Order Management Transactions: 197,128 + 42,620 Users: 20300 + 8700 Configuration Summary Web Server Configuration: 1 x SPARC T4-1 server 1 x SPARC T4 processor, 2.85 GHz 128 GB memory Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 iPlanet Web Server 7 Application Server Configuration: 3 x SPARC T4-2 servers, each with 2 x SPARC T4 processor, 2.85 GHz 256 GB memory 3 x 300 GB SAS internal disks Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Siebel CRM 8.1.1.5 SIA Database Server Configuration: 1 x SPARC T4-1 server 1 x SPARC T4 processor, 2.85 GHz 128 GB memory Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) Storage Configuration: 1 x Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array 80 x 24 GB flash modules Benchmark Description Siebel 8.1 PSPP benchmark includes Call Center and Order Management: Siebel Financial Services Call Center – Provides the most complete solution for sales and service, allowing customer service and telesales representatives to provide superior customer support, improve customer loyalty, and increase revenues through cross-selling and up-selling. High-level description of the use cases tested: Incoming Call Creates Opportunity, Quote and Order and Incoming Call Creates Service Request . Three complex business transactions are executed simultaneously for specific number of concurrent users. The ratios of these 3 scenarios were 30%, 40%, 30% respectively, which together were totaling 70% of all transactions simulated in this benchmark. Between each user operation and the next one, the think time averaged approximately 10, 13, and 35 seconds respectively. Siebel Order Management – Oracle's Siebel Order Management allows employees such as salespeople and call center agents to create and manage quotes and orders through their entire life cycle. Siebel Order Management can be tightly integrated with back-office applications allowing users to perform tasks such as checking credit, confirming availability, and monitoring the fulfillment process. High-level description of the use cases tested: Order & Order Items Creation and Order Updates. Two complex Order Management transactions were executed simultaneously for specific number of concurrent users concurrently with aforementioned three Call Center scenarios above. The ratio of these 2 scenarios was 50% each, which together were totaling 30% of all transactions simulated in this benchmark. Between each user operation and the next one, the think time averaged approximately 20 and 67 seconds respectively. Key Points and Best Practices No processor cores or cache were activated or deactivated on the SPARC T-Series systems to achieve special benchmark effects. See Also Siebel White Papers SPARC T4-1 Server oracle.com OTN SPARC T4-2 Server oracle.com OTN Siebel CRM oracle.com OTN Oracle Solaris oracle.com OTN Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition oracle.com OTN Disclosure Statement Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Results as of 30 September 2012.

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• Crime Scene Investigation: SQL Server

  - by Rodney Landrum

  “The packages are running slower in Prod than they are in Dev” My week began with this simple declaration from one of our lead BI developers, quickly followed by an emailed spreadsheet demonstrating that, over 5 executions, an extensive ETL process was running average 630 seconds faster on Dev than on Prod. The situation needed some scientific investigation to determine why the same code, the same data, the same schema would yield consistently slower results on a more powerful server. Prod had yet to be officially christened with a “Go Live” date so I had the time, and having recently been binge watching CSI: New York, I also had the inclination. An inspection of the two systems, Prod and Dev, revealed the first surprise: although Prod was indeed a “bigger” system, with double the amount of RAM of Dev, the latter actually had twice as many processor cores. On neither system did I see much sign of resources being heavily taxed, while the ETL process was running. Without any real supporting evidence, I jumped to a conclusion that my years of performance tuning should have helped me avoid, and that was that the hardware differences explained the better performance on Dev. We spent time setting up a Test system, similarly scoped to Prod except with 4 times the cores, and ported everything across. The results of our careful benchmarks left us truly bemused; the ETL process on the new server was slower than on both other systems. We burned more time tweaking server configurations, monitoring IO and network latency, several times believing we’d uncovered the smoking gun, until the results of subsequent test runs pitched us back into confusion. Finally, I decided, enough was enough. Hadn’t I learned very early in my DBA career that almost all bottlenecks were caused by code and database design, not hardware? It was time to get back to basics. With over 100 SSIS packages and hundreds of queries, each handling specific tasks such as file loads, bulk inserts, transforms, logging, and so on, the task seemed formidable. And yet, after barely an hour spent with Profiler, Extended Events, and wait statistics DMVs, I had a lead in the shape of a query that joined three tables, containing millions of rows, returned 3279 results, but performed 239K logical reads. As soon as I looked at the execution plans for the query in Dev and Test I saw the culprit, an implicit conversion warning on a join predicate field that was numeric in one table and a varchar(50) in another! I turned this information over to the BI developers who quickly resolved the data type mismatches and found and fixed “several” others as well. After the schema changes the same query with the same databases ran in under 1 second on all systems and reduced the logical reads down to fewer than 300. The analysis also revealed that on Dev, the ETL task was pulling data across a LAN, whereas Prod and Test were connected across slower WAN, in large part explaining why the same process ran slower on the latter two systems. Loading the data locally on Prod delivered a further 20% gain in performance. As we progress through our DBA careers we learn valuable lessons. Sometimes, with a project deadline looming and pressure mounting, we choose to forget them. I was close to giving into the temptation to throw more hardware at the problem. I’m pleased at least that I resisted, though I still kick myself for not looking at the code on day one. It can seem a daunting prospect to return to the fundamentals of the code so close to roll out, but with the right tools, and surprisingly little time, you can collect the evidence that reveals the true problem. It is a lesson I trust I will remember for my next 20 years as a DBA, if I’m ever again tempted to bypass the evidence.

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• Library order is important

  - by Darryl Gove

  I've written quite extensively about link ordering issues, but I've not discussed the interaction between archive libraries and shared libraries. So let's take a simple program that calls a maths library function: #include <math.h int main() { for (int i=0; i<10000000; i++) { sin(i); } } We compile and run it to get the following performance: bash-3.2$ cc -g -O fp.c -lm bash-3.2$ timex ./a.out real 6.06 user 6.04 sys 0.01 Now most people will have heard of the optimised maths library which is added by the flag -xlibmopt. This contains optimised versions of key mathematical functions, in this instance, using the library doubles performance: bash-3.2$ cc -g -O -xlibmopt fp.c -lm bash-3.2$ timex ./a.out real 2.70 user 2.69 sys 0.00 The optimised maths library is provided as an archive library (libmopt.a), and the driver adds it to the link line just before the maths library - this causes the linker to pick the definitions provided by the static library in preference to those provided by libm. We can see the processing by asking the compiler to print out the link line: bash-3.2$ cc -### -g -O -xlibmopt fp.c -lm /usr/ccs/bin/ld ... fp.o -lmopt -lm -o a.out... The flag to the linker is -lmopt, and this is placed before the -lm flag. So what happens when the -lm flag is in the wrong place on the command line: bash-3.2$ cc -g -O -xlibmopt -lm fp.c bash-3.2$ timex ./a.out real 6.02 user 6.01 sys 0.01 If the -lm flag is before the source file (or object file for that matter), we get the slower performance from the system maths library. Why's that? If we look at the link line we can see the following ordering: /usr/ccs/bin/ld ... -lmopt -lm fp.o -o a.out So the optimised maths library is still placed before the system maths library, but the object file is placed afterwards. This would be ok if the optimised maths library were a shared library, but it is not - instead it's an archive library, and archive library processing is different - as described in the linker and library guide: "The link-editor searches an archive only to resolve undefined or tentative external references that have previously been encountered." An archive library can only be used resolve symbols that are outstanding at that point in the link processing. When fp.o is placed before the libmopt.a archive library, then the linker has an unresolved symbol defined in fp.o, and it will search the archive library to resolve that symbol. If the archive library is placed before fp.o then there are no unresolved symbols at that point, and so the linker doesn't need to use the archive library. This is why libmopt needs to be placed after the object files on the link line. On the other hand if the linker has observed any shared libraries, then at any point these are checked for any unresolved symbols. The consequence of this is that once the linker "sees" libm it will resolve any symbols it can to that library, and it will not check the archive library to resolve them. This is why libmopt needs to be placed before libm on the link line. This leads to the following order for placing files on the link line: Object files Archive libraries Shared libraries If you use this order, then things will consistently get resolved to the archive libraries rather than to the shared libaries.

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• HERMES Medical Solutions Helps Save Lives with MySQL

  - by Bertrand Matthelié

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} HERMES Medical Solutions was established in 1976 in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a leading innovator in medical imaging hardware/software products for health care facilities worldwide. HERMES delivers a plethora of different medical imaging solutions to optimize hospital workflow. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} HERMES advanced algorithms make it possible to detect the smallest changes under therapies important and necessary to optimize different therapeutic methods and doses. Challenges Fighting illness & disease requires state-of-the-art imaging modalities and software in order to diagnose accurately, stage disease appropriately and select the best treatment available. Selecting and implementing a new database platform that would deliver the needed performance, reliability, security and flexibility required by the high-end medical solutions offered by HERMES. Solution Decision to migrate from in-house database to an embedded SQL database powering the HERMES products, delivered either as software, integrated hardware and software solutions, or via the cloud in a software-as-a-service configuration. Evaluation of several databases and selection of MySQL based on its high performance, ease of use and integration, and low Total Cost of Ownership. On average, between 4 and 12 Terabytes of data are stored in MySQL databases underpinning the HERMES solutions. The data generated by each medical study is indeed stored during 10 years or more after the treatment was performed. MySQL-based HERMES systems also allow doctors worldwide to conduct new drug research projects leveraging the large amount of medical data collected. Hospitals and other HERMES customers worldwide highly value the “zero administration” capabilities and reliability of MySQL, enabling them to perform medical analysis without any downtime. Relying on MySQL as their embedded database, the HERMES team has been able to increase their focus on further developing their clinical applications. HERMES Medical Solutions could leverage the Oracle Financing payment plan to spread its investment over time and make the MySQL choice even more valuable. “MySQL has proven to be an excellent database choice for us. We offer high-end medical solutions, and MySQL delivers the reliability, security and performance such solutions require.” Jan Bertling, CEO.

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• BI&EPM in Focus November 2012

  - by Mike.Hallett(at)Oracle-BI&EPM

  Customers ·       San Diego Unified School District Harnesses Attendance, Procurement, and Operational Data with Oracle Exalytics, Generating $4.4 Million in Savings ·       NilsonGroup chooses Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine as their solution to access critical data to keep its stores competitive with real-time Mobile BI:  Video ·       Nykredit, in the Danish Financial Sector, describes their experiences from testing the Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine: Video  ·       Sodexo chose Oracle Exalytics as their business analytics platform:  Video ·       AstraZeneca (US, Canada, MedImmune) Improves Insight, Analytics, and Reporting, Enterprisewide with Unified Planning on a Single Platform ·       Experian Consolidates Reporting Systems for One, Global View of Financial Data and Improves Planning for Continued Growth ·       Munchkin Gives its Line of Children’s Products Plenty of Room to Grow in an Upgraded Enterprise Application Environment ·       Top 20 EPM Customer Snapshots, in One Handy Booklet (link) ·       Customer and Partner Successes: Link to Complete Archive Enterprise Performance Management ·       Nov 15: Is Hope and Email the Core of your Reconciliation Process? (link) ·       Replay: Integrated Business Planning, Featuring Leggett & Platt (link) ·       Whitepaper: The New Competitive Advantage - Strategic CIO's Embrace the Cloud (link) ·       Press: Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Driving Significant Improvements in Budget Management and Reporting for Public Sector Organizations (link) ·       Enterprise Performance Management Video Feature Overviews, Now Available on YouTube (link) ·       NEW Solution Brief - Oracle Hyperion Planning on the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine (link) ·       For Insurance sector: Datasheet for new release V2.0 - Oracle Quantitative Management and Reporting for Solvency II (link) ·       Whitepaper FSN 2012: Managing Risk and Uncertainty, an Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning (link) ·       NEW Datasheet for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (link) ·       Blog: Planning in the Cloud - For Real Business Intelligence ·       Press: Latest Release of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine Software Enables Customers to View and Analyze Data at the Speed of Business (link) ·       Press: New Release (11.1.1.6.2BP1) of Oracle Business Intelligence Enables Users to Quickly Access and Analyze Key Business Information, Anytime, Anywhere (link) ·       Mark Hurd Interviewed on USA Today about Big Data & Analytics (link) ·       Whitepaper: Mastering Big Data - CFO Strategies to Transform Insight into Opportunity (link) ·       Nov 15: Improve Asset Utilization. Achieve Greater Profitability: Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Analytics (link) ·       Replay: Oracle Enterprise Asset Mgmt Analytics and Oracle Manufacturing Analytics (link) ·       Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges (link) ·       Webcast Replay: Overview of Oracle Endeca Informational Discovery (link) ·       OBIEE 11g: Required and Recommended Patches and Patch Sets (link)

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• Profiling Startup Of VS2012 &ndash; JustTrace Profiler

  - by Alois Kraus

  JustTrace is made by Telerik which is mainly known for its collection of UI controls. The current version (2012.3.1127.0) does include a performance and memory profiler which does cost 614€ and is currently with a special offer for 306€ on sale. It does include one year of free upgrades. The uneven € numbers are calculated from the 799€ and 50% dicsount price. The UI is already in Metro style and simple to use. Multi process, attach, method recording filter are not supported. It looks like JustTrace is like Ants a Just My Code profiler. For stuff where you do not have the pdbs or you want to dig deeper into the BCL code you will not get far. After getting the profile data you get in the All Methods grid a plain list with hit count and own time. The method list for all methods is also suspiciously short which is a clear sign that you will not get far during the analysis of foreign code. But at least there is also a memory profiler included. For this I have to choose in the first window for Profiling Type “Memory Profiler” to check the memory consumption of VS.  There are some interesting number to see but I do really miss from YourKit the thread stack window. How am I supposed to get a clue when much memory is allocated and the CPU consumption is high in which places I should look? The Snapshot summary gives a rough overview which is ok for a first impression. Next is Assemblies? This gives you a list of all loaded assemblies. Not terribly useful.   The By Type view gives you exactly what it is supposed to do. You have to keep in mind that this list is filtered by the types you did check in the Assemblies list. The By Type instance list does only show types from assemblies which do not originate from Microsoft. By default mscorlib and System are not checked. That is the reason why for the first time my By Type window looked like The idea behind this feature is to show only your instances because you are ultimately responsible for the overall memory consumption. I am not sure if I do like this feature because by default it does hide too much. I do want to see at least how many strings and arrays are allocated. A simple namespace filter would also do it in my opinion. Now you can examine all string instances and look who in the object graph does keep a reference on them. That is nice but YourKit has the big plus that you can also look into the string contents.  I am also not sure how in the graph cycles are visualized and what will happen if you have thousands of objects referencing you. That's pretty much it about JustTrace. It can help the average developer to pinpoint performance and memory issues by just looking at his own code and instances. Showing them more will not help them because the sheer amount of information will overwhelm them. And you need to have a pretty good understanding how the GC and the CLR does work. When you have a performance issue at a customer machine it is sometimes very helpful to be able a bring a profiler onto the machine (no pdbs, …) and to get a full snapshot of all processes which are in the problematic use case involved. For these more advanced use cased JustTrace is certainly the wrong tool. Next: SpeedTrace

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• How to construct SELinux rules for a Glassfish server

  - by tronda

  I'm running Glassfish 3.1 on a CentOS 6 solution and by default SELinux is enabled. I have installed Sun's JDK version 1.6.0_29 on the server and extracted the Glassfish 3.1.1 to /opt/glassfish-3.1.1 with a link /opt/glassfish pointing to the latest Glassfish version. I've also created a system user named glassfish with a home directory /home/glassfish. When running with SELinux enabled I get all sorts of errors. For instance I'm not able to create the domain. I kind of like the concept of SELinux, and would like to be able to have SELinux enabled. I have the following requirements for the Glassfish server: Listening to port 8080 and 8081 Other ports 7676: JMS 8686: JMX monitoring, 4848: Admin console Forwarding from apache to Glassfish through mod_jk and port 8009 Starting OpenMQ as an separate process which listens to 7676 and it's JMX monitoring port 7776 Able to read and write files at a specified area (different from home directory) Able to use /tmp/ for temporary files I am aware of the audit2allow tool when running in permissive mode, but I struggle with understanding the rules that is generated from this tool, and thought that setting up these rule manually the first time would help me understand the SELinux rules better than the simplistic examples that I've seen so far. Can someone with SELinux experience help me form these SELinux rules with comments describing each part of the rules?

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• Dell Management Packs in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2?

  - by bwerks

  Hey all, I recently set up SCOM in a small business network environment. The root management server is a Dell Poweredge 2950, and I'd like to use SCOM to monitor it using Dell's management packs. I've imported the management packs into the SCOM deployment and followed Dell's installation instructions, but it doesn't seem to be fully working yet. Currently, the Diagram views in the Dell tree (Monitoring tab) seem to show me the server's place in the network topology, so it seems that at least part of it is working. However, none of the reports under "Performance and Power Monitoring Views" provide any information. When clicking on one of them (Power Consumption (Watts), for instance), the display area is blank and there is a tooltip visible that reads "No performance counter is selected. To select a counter, place a check mark in the Show column in legend below." However, in the legend, there's nothing there for me to check. I've installed OpenManage 6.2 on the server as per the Dell documentation, but I don't know what else I could have done that I missed. Does this sound like a familiar problem to anyone?

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• Finding out why Dell Controler is Degraded

  - by Kyle Brandt

  I installed open manage on a couple of my PE 2950s for snmp monitoring of the RAID. All the checks seem to come back okay except for controllerState: [root@aMachine ~]# snmpwalk -v 2c -c bestNotToPostPasswords myMachine -m +StorageManagement-MIB controllerstate StorageManagement-MIB::controllerState.1 = INTEGER: degraded(6) Other checks seems to indicate the battery, LD, and physicals disks are all good unless I missing something. Can anyone tell if I am missing something or neglecting something import in my RAID monitoring/understanding? I get degraded for both these servers I have set up. A walk of the entire storage management tree for on of them: StorageManagement-MIB::softwareVersion.0 = STRING: "3.2.0" StorageManagement-MIB::globalStatus.0 = INTEGER: warning(2) StorageManagement-MIB::softwareManufacturer.0 = STRING: "Dell Inc." StorageManagement-MIB::softwareProduct.0 = STRING: "Server Administrator (Storage Management)" StorageManagement-MIB::softwareDescription.0 = STRING: "Configuration and monitoring of disk storage devices." StorageManagement-MIB::displayName.0 = STRING: "Server Administrator (Storage Management)" StorageManagement-MIB::description.0 = STRING: "Configuration and monitoring of disk storage devices." StorageManagement-MIB::agentVendor.0 = STRING: "Dell Inc." StorageManagement-MIB::agentTimeStamp.0 = INTEGER: 1273842310 StorageManagement-MIB::agentGetTimeout.0 = INTEGER: 5 StorageManagement-MIB::agentModifiers.0 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::agentRefreshRate.0 = INTEGER: 300 StorageManagement-MIB::agentMibVersion.0 = STRING: "3.2" StorageManagement-MIB::agentManagementSoftwareURLName.0 = "" StorageManagement-MIB::agentGlobalSystemStatus.0 = INTEGER: nonCritical(4) StorageManagement-MIB::agentLastGlobalSystemStatus.0 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::agentSmartThermalShutdown.0 = INTEGER: notApplicable(3) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerName.1 = STRING: "PERC 5/i Integrated" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerVendor.1 = STRING: "DELL" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerType.1 = INTEGER: sas(6) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerState.1 = INTEGER: degraded(6) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerRebuildRateInPercent.1 = INTEGER: 30 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerFWVersion.1 = STRING: "5.0.2-0003" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerCacheSizeInMB.1 = INTEGER: 256 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerCacheSizeInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerPhysicalDeviceCount.1 = INTEGER: 5 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerLogicalDeviceCount.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerRollUpStatus.1 = INTEGER: nonCritical(4) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerComponentStatus.1 = INTEGER: nonCritical(4) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerNexusID.1 = STRING: "\\0" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerAlarmState.1 = INTEGER: disabled(2) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerDriverVersion.1 = STRING: "00.00.03.05 " StorageManagement-MIB::controllerPCISlot.1 = STRING: "embedded" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerClusterMode.1 = INTEGER: notApplicable(99) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerMinFWVersion.1 = STRING: "5.2.1-0067" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerMinDriverVersion.1 = STRING: "00.00.03.21" StorageManagement-MIB::controllerChannelCount.1 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerReconstructRate.1 = INTEGER: 30 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerPatrolReadRate.1 = INTEGER: 30 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerBGIRate.1 = INTEGER: 30 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerCheckConsistencyRate.1 = INTEGER: 30 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerPatrolReadMode.1 = INTEGER: automatic(1) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerPatrolReadState.1 = INTEGER: stopped(1) StorageManagement-MIB::controllerPatrolReadIterations.1 = INTEGER: 162 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerEntry.57.1 = INTEGER: 99 StorageManagement-MIB::controllerEntry.58.1 = INTEGER: 99 StorageManagement-MIB::channelNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::channelNumber.2 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::channelName.1 = STRING: "Connector 0" StorageManagement-MIB::channelName.2 = STRING: "Connector 1" StorageManagement-MIB::channelState.1 = INTEGER: ready(1) StorageManagement-MIB::channelState.2 = INTEGER: ready(1) StorageManagement-MIB::channelRollUpStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::channelRollUpStatus.2 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::channelComponentStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::channelComponentStatus.2 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::channelNexusID.1 = STRING: "\\0\\0" StorageManagement-MIB::channelNexusID.2 = STRING: "\\0\\1" StorageManagement-MIB::channelBusType.1 = INTEGER: sas(8) StorageManagement-MIB::channelBusType.2 = INTEGER: sas(8) StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureName.1 = STRING: "Backplane" StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureVendor.1 = STRING: "DELL" StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureState.1 = INTEGER: ready(1) StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureProductID.1 = STRING: "BACKPLANE " StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureType.1 = INTEGER: internal(1) StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureChannelNumber.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureRollUpStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureComponentStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureNexusID.1 = STRING: "\\0\\0\\0" StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureFirmwareVersion.1 = STRING: "1.00" StorageManagement-MIB::enclosureSASAddress.1 = STRING: "50019090B4C67200" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNumber.2 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNumber.3 = INTEGER: 3 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNumber.4 = INTEGER: 4 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskName.1 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskName.2 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:1" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskName.3 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:2" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskName.4 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:3" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskVendor.1 = STRING: "DELL " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskVendor.2 = STRING: "DELL " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskVendor.3 = STRING: "DELL " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskVendor.4 = STRING: "DELL " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskState.1 = INTEGER: online(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskState.2 = INTEGER: online(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskState.3 = INTEGER: online(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskState.4 = INTEGER: online(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskProductID.1 = STRING: "ST3146755SS " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskProductID.2 = STRING: "ST3146755SS " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskProductID.3 = STRING: "ST3146755SS " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskProductID.4 = STRING: "ST3146755SS " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSerialNo.1 = STRING: "3LN0LRL0 " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSerialNo.2 = STRING: "3LN0JYJS " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSerialNo.3 = STRING: "3LN0LR0V " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSerialNo.4 = STRING: "3LN0JH97 " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRevision.1 = STRING: "T106" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRevision.2 = STRING: "T106" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRevision.3 = STRING: "T106" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRevision.4 = STRING: "T106" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureID.1 = STRING: "0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureID.2 = STRING: "0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureID.3 = STRING: "0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureID.4 = STRING: "0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskChannel.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskChannel.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskChannel.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskChannel.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInMB.1 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInMB.2 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInMB.3 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInMB.4 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInBytes.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInBytes.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLengthInBytes.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInMB.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInMB.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInMB.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInMB.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInBytes.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInBytes.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLargestContiguousFreeSpaceInBytes.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskTargetID.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskTargetID.2 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskTargetID.3 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskTargetID.4 = INTEGER: 3 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLunID.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLunID.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLunID.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLunID.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInMB.1 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInMB.2 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInMB.3 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInMB.4 = INTEGER: 139392 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInBytes.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInBytes.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskUsedSpaceInBytes.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInMB.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInMB.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInMB.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInMB.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInBytes.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInBytes.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskFreeSpaceInBytes.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskBusType.1 = INTEGER: sas(8) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskBusType.2 = INTEGER: sas(8) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskBusType.3 = INTEGER: sas(8) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskBusType.4 = INTEGER: sas(8) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSpareState.1 = INTEGER: notASpare(5) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSpareState.2 = INTEGER: notASpare(5) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSpareState.3 = INTEGER: notASpare(5) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSpareState.4 = INTEGER: notASpare(5) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRollUpStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRollUpStatus.2 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRollUpStatus.3 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskRollUpStatus.4 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskComponentStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskComponentStatus.2 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskComponentStatus.3 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskComponentStatus.4 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNexusID.1 = STRING: "\\0\\0\\0\\0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNexusID.2 = STRING: "\\0\\0\\0\\1" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNexusID.3 = STRING: "\\0\\0\\0\\2" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskNexusID.4 = STRING: "\\0\\0\\0\\3" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskPartNumber.1 = STRING: "SG0DR2381253172FLRL0A00 " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskPartNumber.2 = STRING: "SG0DR2381253172FJYJSA00 " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskPartNumber.3 = STRING: "SG0DR2381253172FLR0VA00 " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskPartNumber.4 = STRING: "SG0DR2381253172FJH97A00 " StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSASAddress.1 = STRING: "5000C50002380201" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSASAddress.2 = STRING: "5000C50002385B89" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSASAddress.3 = STRING: "5000C50002385AA9" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSASAddress.4 = STRING: "5000C500023841E1" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSmartAlertIndication.1 = INTEGER: no(1) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSmartAlertIndication.2 = INTEGER: no(1) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSmartAlertIndication.3 = INTEGER: no(1) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskSmartAlertIndication.4 = INTEGER: no(1) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureDay.1 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureDay.2 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureDay.3 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureDay.4 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureWeek.1 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureWeek.2 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureWeek.3 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureWeek.4 = STRING: "07" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureYear.1 = STRING: "2005" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureYear.2 = STRING: "2005" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureYear.3 = STRING: "2005" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskManufactureYear.4 = STRING: "2005" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskMediaType.1 = INTEGER: hdd(2) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskMediaType.2 = INTEGER: hdd(2) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskMediaType.3 = INTEGER: hdd(2) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskMediaType.4 = INTEGER: hdd(2) StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.36.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.36.2 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.36.3 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.36.4 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.40.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.40.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.40.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.40.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.41.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.41.2 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.41.3 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEntry.41.4 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionNumber.2 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionNumber.3 = INTEGER: 3 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionNumber.4 = INTEGER: 4 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskName.1 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskName.2 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:1" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskName.3 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:2" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskName.4 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:3" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskNumber.2 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskNumber.3 = INTEGER: 3 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionArrayDiskNumber.4 = INTEGER: 4 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureName.1 = STRING: "Backplane" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureName.2 = STRING: "Backplane" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureName.3 = STRING: "Backplane" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureName.4 = STRING: "Backplane" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureNumber.2 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureNumber.3 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionEnclosureNumber.4 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerName.1 = STRING: "PERC 5/i Integrated" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerName.2 = STRING: "PERC 5/i Integrated" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerName.3 = STRING: "PERC 5/i Integrated" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerName.4 = STRING: "PERC 5/i Integrated" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerNumber.2 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerNumber.3 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskEnclosureConnectionControllerNumber.4 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryName.1 = STRING: "Battery 0" StorageManagement-MIB::batteryVendor.1 = STRING: "DELL" StorageManagement-MIB::batteryState.1 = INTEGER: ready(1) StorageManagement-MIB::batteryRollUpStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::batteryComponentStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::batteryNexusID.1 = STRING: "\\0\\0" StorageManagement-MIB::batteryPredictedCapacity.1 = INTEGER: ready(2) StorageManagement-MIB::batteryNextLearnTime.1 = INTEGER: 21 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryLearnState.1 = INTEGER: idle(16) StorageManagement-MIB::batteryEntry.13.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryMaxLearnDelay.1 = INTEGER: 168 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryConnectionNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryConnectionBatteryName.1 = STRING: "Battery 0" StorageManagement-MIB::batteryConnectionBatteryNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::batteryConnectionControllerName.1 = STRING: "PERC 5/i Integrated" StorageManagement-MIB::batteryConnectionControllerNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskName.1 = STRING: "Virtual Disk 0" StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskDeviceName.1 = STRING: "/dev/sda" StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskState.1 = INTEGER: ready(1) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskLengthInMB.1 = INTEGER: 278784 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskLengthInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskWritePolicy.1 = INTEGER: writeBack(3) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskReadPolicy.1 = INTEGER: noReadAhead(5) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskCachePolicy.1 = INTEGER: not-applicable(99) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskLayout.1 = INTEGER: raid-10(10) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskCurStripeSizeInMB.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskCurStripeSizeInBytes.1 = INTEGER: 65536 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskTargetID.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskRollUpStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskComponentStatus.1 = INTEGER: ok(3) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskNexusID.1 = STRING: "\\0\\0" StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskArrayDiskType.1 = INTEGER: sas(1) StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskEntry.23.1 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::virtualDiskEntry.24.1 = INTEGER: 0 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionNumber.2 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionNumber.3 = INTEGER: 3 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionNumber.4 = INTEGER: 4 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskName.1 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskName.2 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:1" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskName.3 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:2" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskName.4 = STRING: "Physical Disk 0:0:3" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskNumber.2 = INTEGER: 2 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskNumber.3 = INTEGER: 3 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionArrayDiskNumber.4 = INTEGER: 4 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskName.1 = STRING: "Virtual Disk 0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskName.2 = STRING: "Virtual Disk 0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskName.3 = STRING: "Virtual Disk 0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskName.4 = STRING: "Virtual Disk 0" StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskNumber.1 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskNumber.2 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskNumber.3 = INTEGER: 1 StorageManagement-MIB::arrayDiskLogicalConnectionVirtualDiskNumber.4 = INTEGER: 1

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• Cisco VPN endpoints disconnecting from a VLAN

  - by dunxd

  I have a number of Cisco ASA 5505 and PIX 506e around the world acting as VPN endpoints. They connect to a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3000 at HQ. I am using EZVPN to set up the VPN (i.e. most of the config is central on the VPN Concentrator) The majority of endpoints work absolutely fine. However, there are three that do not. 2 ASAs and 1 PIX get disconnected from one of the VLANs on our network. This is the VLAN that my monitoring server runs on - so those endpoints look as if they have gone down. However, I can still ping the endpoints from our user VLAN. If I then SSH onto the endpoint, and do a ping to my monitoring server, the connection comes back. Then after about 10 minutes it stops working again. I've looked at the configuration of my endpoints, and I can't see any significant differences. One common feature is that the affected endpoints are connecting to the internet via retail quality routers. However, I don't see how this could affect traffic within a VPN tunnel. Any ideas or suggestions? I've also got a thread on Cisco's forums at https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/344638. One other person has reported the same problem.

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• JBoss 5 on AIX 5.3

  - by jess

  I am a very newbie for AIX and system monitoring. Actually our application currently run production on jboss 5.1 in AIX 5.3. Please check below configuration & system settings. AIX system configuration OS Level 5.3.9.0 (oslevel -g) Physical Memory size 24GB (svmon -G) Page space 4GB (lsps -s) processors 3 cores, Processor Type: PowerPC_POWER6, Processor Clock Speed: 4704 MHz (prtconf | grep Processor) Java version JRE 1.6.0 IBM AIX build pap6460sr10fp1-20120321_01 (SR10 FP1) (java -fullversion) JBoss configuration JBoss 5.1/JBoss ESB 4.11 Hornetq messaging with consumer flow control java opts : -d64 -Xms2g -Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m Sometime we observe very strange behavior in the JBoss that freeze without any error logs. Also server log stop without any further trace. We also not able to get thread dump (kill -3) and its not generate at that point. (kill -3 xxxxx works in normal circumstances) Only option available for us was restart the jboss server and its seem all messages that were in queues during the freeze time process after restarting. We try tweak some of setting in JBoss hornetq, we though issue was there. Hornetq Stuck By Default. But we haven't any luck and also unable to isolate the issue in any point. We looking at tool like nmon for monitoring this but no clue is that good enough to do so. Please provide some point to investigate this issue. Thanks

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• What speed are Wi-Fi management and control frames sent at?

  - by Bryce Thomas

  There are a bunch of different 802.11 Wi-Fi standards, e.g. 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n etc. that all support different speeds. Wi-Fi frames are generally categorised as one of the following: Data frames - carry the actual application data Control frames - coordinate when its safe to send/reduce collisions Management frames - handle connection discovery/setup/tear down (e.g. AP discovery, association, disassociation) My question is about whether all these frames, and specifically management frames, are transmitted at the fastest supported speed available, or whether certain classes of frames are transmitted at some lowest common denominator speed. I have noticed that when I put an 802.11b/g only device into monitor mode and capture traffic over the air, I still see management frames (e.g. association/disassociation) being transmitted between my phone and AP which are both 802.11n, even though 802.11n has a higher transfer rate. So I am imagining one of two possibilities: My 802.11n phone/AP had to negotiate a slower speed for some reason and that's why I can see their frames on my 802.11b/g monitoring device. Management frames (and perhaps control frames also?) are sent at a lower speed, and it's only data frames that are transmitted faster with newer 802.11 standards. The reason I would like to know which one of these two possibilities (or perhaps a third possibility) is the case is that I want to capture management frames, and need to know whether using an 802.11b/g card is going to lead to me missing some frames sent at higher speeds than the monitoring card can observe. If management frames are indeed sent at a slower rate, then it's all good. If I just happen to be seeing the management frames because my phone/AP have negotiated a slower rate though, then I need to reconsider what card I use for packet capture.

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• How can I parse/ transform text log data before it gets captured in SCOM 2007 R2?

  - by Abs

  I'm pretty much a noob with System Center Operations Manager 2007, and I'm probably missing something pretty basic, but I'm stumped anyway. We're setting up monitoring on some of our servers, and we'd like to capture data from some plain text log files (e.g. DNS debug logs, DHCP logs). It looks to me like I can set up a generic text file monitoring rule and get events captured into the main Ops Manager database, but my understanding is that the whole line of text from the plain text log gets captured as one field. In an ideal world, we'd be able to parse or transform that log file data to make it easier to query later. Is this possible? Is it easy? Do I have to buy expensive 3rd-party software to do it? One more thing: it would be even better if there was a way to stuff this data into the Audit Collection Services (ACS) database instead of the main one, but I'll take what I can get. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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• virtual memory commited

  - by vinu

  After a server bounce happens, and after around 40-45 days time period, we receive continuous “Committed Virtual Memory” alerts which indicates the usage of swap space in the magnitude of 4GB This also causes the application to perform very slowly and experience a number of stalled transactions. Server Setup: 4 Tomcat Servers (version 7.0.22) that are load balanced (not clustered) by 2 Apache Servers. And the Apache servers themselves supply static content and routing to these 4 tomcat servers. Java Runtime Version: java version "1.6.0_30" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_30-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.5-b03, mixed mode Memory Startup Parameters: MEMORY_OPTIONS="-Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -Xss192k -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled" Monitoring – Wily monitoring is available in all the production servers that monitors key server parameters and sends out configurable alert emails based on pre defined settings. Note: Each of the servers also has two other separate tomcat domains that run different applications Investigated area: There is no Heap Memory Leak and the GC is running fine without any issues over any period of time The current busy thread count corresponds directly to the application usage – weekends and nights have lesser no. of threads compared to business hours ThreadLocal uses a WeakReference internally. If the ThreadLocal is not strongly referenced, it will be garbage-collected, even though various threads have values stored via that ThreadLocal. Additionally, ThreadLocal values are actually stored in the Thread; if a thread dies, all of the values associated with that thread through a ThreadLocal are collected. If you have a ThreadLocal as a final class member, that's a strong reference, and it cannot be collected until the class is unloaded. But this is how any class member works, and isn't considered a memory leak. The cited problem only comes into play when the value stored in a ThreadLocal strongly references that ThreadLocal—sort of a circular reference. In this case, the value (a SimpleDateFormat), has no backwards reference to the ThreadLocal. There's no memory leak in this code. Can anyone please let me know what could be the cause of this and what to be monitored?

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• Reading log files from web application

  - by Egorinsk

  I want to write a small PHP application for monitoring logs on a Debian server, including syslog logs and Apache/PHP messages. The problem here is that Apache user (www-data) has no access to /var/log directory. What would be the best way to grant an access to logs for PHP application? Let's assume that log files can be really large, like hundreds of megabytes. I have some ideas: Write a shell script that would be run via sudo and tail last 512 Kb of log into a separate file that can be read by application - that's ineffective, because of forking a new process and having to read data twice Add www-data to adm group (that can read logs) - that's insecure Start a PHP process via cron every minute to read logs — that's not very good, because it doesn't allow real-time monitoring. Also, this script will be started even when I don't read logs, and consume CPU time (server is in the cloud, and I'll have to pay for it) Create a hardlink for all log files with lowered permissions - I guess, that won't work because logrotate could recreate log files and they'll change inode number. Start a separate nginx/Apache server under privileged user that may read logs. Maybe anyone got a better solution?

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• How to Monitor Network in Medium-Sized Company?

  - by Kyle Lowry

  I work at a medium sized company (100+ employees). An issue that has been cropping up is network performance, internet access in particular. We have about 70 or more computers, a mix of Mac OS X and Windows XP & 7 machines. We have several servers (Exchange server, PC file servers, MS SQL, Blackberry, FTP, Mac server, etc). There are four main switches, a SonicWall firewall, and probably a couple routers in the server room with a dozen or so more scattered around the building. The network structure has grown organically over a number of years; and, as far as I know, there really isn't a monitoring solution in place. When we experience network issues (slow connections, dropped packets, and so on), our general solution is to power cycle some hardware or go around to each employee and ask them if they are uploading/downloading any large files. This is really inefficient and time consuming, and it does not allow us to monitor the network, tackling potential problems proactively. I would like to find a solution that would allow me to monitor network usage company-wide in real time, with detail going down to the individual computer, ideally. Given the hodgepodge of equipment and operating systems, what would be the best way to set up some kind of monitoring solution? Hardware, software, restructuring our network architecture?

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