Infrastructure Navigator discovery across vCenter Servers

Is it possible configure VIN to discover dependencies across multiple vCenter Servers? It looks like each instance of VIN is associated with just one vCenter Server. Neither linked mode nor SSO multi-site mode seems to integrate discovery across vCenter Servers. If this is not possible in current version of VIN, is it something in the pipeline for next release? May be some sort of integration of lookup/inventory services to gain visibility across VCs?

In linked mode, VIN shows the other VC's VMs as external IPs by design.
VIN supports linked mode in a sense it discovers the environment of the particular VC although there are two environments (i.e. two VM lists) connected.
In addition, in VIN's window settings you can use the drop box and select which VC to discover.
If you experience any discovering issues, I suggest you to open a SR so our Support team can research the logs and refer it.
Thanks,
Nir

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Infrastructure Navigator 1.2 monitoring and alerting

I was under the impression that Infrastructure Navigator did monitoring and alerting of services and applications where if something stopped working or had issues it can notify you via something like email or SMS etc. From what I have seen it appears that it only shows you what services are running on a VM and the dependencies it has with other servers. Is that the case or am I missing something?

Take a look at http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-infrastructure-navigator/overview.html:
vCenter Infrastructure Navigator automatically discover application services, visualize relationships and map dependencies of applications on virtualized compute, storage and network resources. A component of the vCenter Operations Management Suite, vCenter Infrastructure Navigator enables application-aware management of infrastructure and operations to better understand the impact of change, provide more complete disaster recovery protection and minimize downtime.
Automatically discover and keep up-to-date the names and version numbers of application components and services
Visualize application relationships, communication paths and backend connections at the infrastructure, guest OS and application level
Map dependencies of application components on the underlying virtual infrastructure to understand the impact of change and build disaster recovery plans with confidence
The use case you describe is more relevant to vFabric APM - VMware's perfomance management suit which among other capabilities, will alert and notify in case of application performance issues, unavailable services etc. take a look at http://www.vmware.com/products/application-platform/vfabric-application-performance-manager/overview.html

Error while receiving data from infrastructure navigator server -- 5.8.3 against distributed vCenter 5.5

Details...
New install
vCenter 5.5 build 2026576 in a distributed install, Server A MS SQL only, Server B SSO and web client, Server C Update manager and inventory, Server D vCenter service
VIN 5.8.3.140 build 2170967
I looked at and tried the recommendations in KB2044117 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkb.vmware.com%2Fkb%2F2044117&ei=LZ2dVP_4BcOnNum9gNAK&usg=AFQjCNFJUvvafrHpq5CluejRiVwWD0ZgCQ&sig2=dbADxFpPJ5giAHdYEz_vkA&bvm=bv.82001339,d.eXY
No good.
I did take a look at /var/log/vadm on the VIN and see several lines of "TCP Connection(xxxx)-Server B's IP com.vmware.vcext.vim.VcConnection -- Connecting to vCenter at Server D's IP" So it looks like it sees the request from the WWW client but then is trying to go to the vCenter service and not back to the WWW client.
I ran into the support assistant not being supported in a distributed vCenter install, and am left wondering if the same is true with VIN...
It also leaves me in a "tough spot" in that the uninstall instructions require access to a working web client interface to VIN which I do not have...
Any ideas as to what else I might try here?

Solved but not happy!
VIN is not compatible with a web UI that uses standard ports, i.e. TCP 80 and 443. No notes (at least that I seen) in the documents stating this as a requirement.
KB 2065986
VMware KB: VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator is not accessible when the vSphere Web Client is not running on …

Use Infrastructure Navigator to map out applications on different VLANs

Hello. I will be trying out Infrastructure Navigator in our environment and I'm wondering how I would go about mapping out applications across our different VLANs. We have certain networks presented to certain clusters. Will I need to have a Navigator appliance in each network segment or will I be able to tell Navigator to look at all of the networks across the clusters?
Thanks for any information you can provide.

Hello CHJamey,
I just saw your post and I'd like to try to help.
As long as all the VLAN's are known objects in the vSphere, the VIN shouldn't have any issues with mapping out which VMs are communicating with other VMs.
You mentioned applications, could you perhaps be a little more specific? Did you mean Automatic Applications, Manual Applications, or the applications running inside the VMs?
-Michael.

Capture performance metrics across multiple servers

Hello. I'm still very new to Powershell but anyone know of a good Powershell v.3 -4 script that can capture performance metrics across multiple servers with an emphasis on HPC (high performance computing) and gen up a helpful report, perhaps in HTML or Excel
format?
Closest thing I've found and used is this line of powershell:
http://www.microsoftpro.nl/2013/11/21/powershell-performance-monitor-on-multiple-remote-computers/
Maybe figure out a way to present that in better format, such as HTML or Excel.
Also, if someone can suggest some performance metrics to look at with an HPC perspective. For example, if a CPU is running at 100 utilization, figure out if which cores are running high, see how many threads are queued waiting for CPU time, etc...

As far as formatting is concerned,
ConvertTo-HTML is a basic HTML output format, but you can spice it up as much as you like:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730936.aspx
Out-Grid is very functional and pretty simple:
http://powertoe.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/out-gridview-now-has-a-passthru-parameter/
Here's an example with Excel:
Excel
Worksheets Example
This might be a good reference for HPC, I don't have access to an HPC environment so I can't offer much advice there.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff950195.aspx
It might be better to keep unrelated questions separate, so a thread doesn't focus on one question and you lose time getting an answer to another.
I hope this post has helped!

IPTV load balancing across broadcast servers.

I know that across Archive servers in the same cluster that IPTV control server will load balance , is there is a similar function with Broadcast servers. I know broadcast servers use a different delivery mechanism (Multicast). We have multiple broadcast servers that take in an identical live stream, but the only way to advertise thru a URL is a seperate URL per server. Is there some way to hide the multiple URL's to the client population?

No. There is no way to load balance across multiple broadcast servers for live streams. Since this is going to be multicast, there should not be any additional load on the servers when the number of users are more.

Security info propagation across weblogic servers

Hi,
I have a requirement wherein my biz layer needs info abt logged in user profile. the web layer authenticates user using weblogic internal ldap and calls session bean of biz layer. In the biz layer i m able to retrieve the loggedin userid using sessionContext.getCallerPrincipal(). But i do need more info like user_preferences,emp_id as well. Is there a way of setting these attributes in Context obj which gets propagated across weblogic servers transparently. Otherwise i need to modify all my session bean api to accept userPreferencesDTO as additional parameter.
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Managing the Principle and Mirrored DB's across 2 Servers.

We have mirroring set up across 2 servers with a witness server. A1, A2 and W1 respectively. We have 16 Databases. Can half of the DB's on A1 be the Principle, while A2 is the Principle for the other half? Basically
I want to understand if I can sort of balance the DB's across the 2 servers. Some DB's being Principle on A1 and others on A2.

Hi,
Yes, you can configure some DB's being Principle on A1 and others on A2. Because Database Mirroring works at a database level.
Please note that on a 32-bit system, database mirroring can support a maximum of about 10 databases per server instance because of the numbers of worker threads that are consumed by each database mirroring session. However, these restrictions
do not apply on 64-bit SQL Server systems.
More information, please see:
Mirroring Multiple SQL Server Databases on a Single Instance
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Is it possible to share an ODBC.INI across Essbase servers?

h5. Summary
Our planned production environment may have as many as 15 Essbase servers so it would be useful if the odbc.ini file could be maintained centrally. Is this possible?
h5. Problem
The servers are implemented as a high availability cluster. The infrastructure team telll me that a side-effect of this is that the Essbase install builds the server node name into the path for EPM_ORACLE_HOME. Because this path has to be hard-coded in the odbc.ini Driver specification (see below) this apparently forces you to maintain a separate odbc.ini for each Essbase server.
+Driver=/ htesb1 /u03/Oracle/Middleware/EPMSystem11R1/common/ODBC-64/Merant/6.0/lib/ARora24.so+
h5. Requirement
As part of the landscape we will have an OCFS shared file system mounted across all the Essbase servers. What I'd like to be able to do is place a single odbc.ini file on this file system and for that file to be used by all the Essbase nodes. I've tried using an environment variable in the Driver path specification. I've also tried using a symbolic link.
Does anybody know of a way to avoid the hard-coded paths in the odbc.ini?
h5. Alternative
Another possibility is to use OCI instead though I saw in another thread that this doesn't work with parallel loads. Assuming this problem can be got around it means that the connection information will be consistent regardless of the essbase server and the odbc.ini maintenance problem then goes away. The catch is that the connection information is then embedded in the rules file meaning that we have to update same whenever they are moved between environments (e.g. dev to test) and whenever an environment's connection details change. I tried using substitution variables but these only apply to ODBC connection names. Does anyone know if there is some way to parameterise the OCI connection information?
h5. Versions
Essbase Release 11.1.2 (ESB11.1.2.1.102B147)
Linux version 2.6.32.12-0.7-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2010-05-20 11:14:20 +0200 64 bit
Edited by: blackadr on 20-Jun-2012 16:45

I had the same question some time ago. Perhaps you can modify the suggestion given to me to meet your needs? Here's the thread:
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Splitting up a job for 140k+ users across multiple servers

Hello,
I am pretty new to Powershell and want to learn more about scaling stuff and just started working with jobs.
In this particular case I am just doing mass enable or disable at a per user level. The other script I need to do this with grabs and checks values on around 6000 distribution groups and using the current values and type it creates new commands
to add/remove certain users or permissions in bulk with Invoke-Expression. I *think* it would probably be best in my case to run these across servers as well.
Basically what I am looking at is:
Using one large list/array, counting it, splitting it, using the resources it has available with jobs.
One of the problems I have had with this but seems I have mostly figured out is how I combine or 'foreach' several different values that may need to be applied to separate objects on certain servers with certain users and certain attributes.
Last night I ran the first script that could do that but it took me awhile and looks like a wreck I am sure - but it worked!
Now to tackle size.
Thank You

Hi Paul,
looking good so far. Did a little rewrite of what you posted:
Function Disable-Stuff
Param (
[Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true)]
[string]
$file,
[Parameter(Position = 1)]
[ValidateSet('CAS', 'MBX', 'ALL')]
[string]
$servertype = "CAS"
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$servers = @()
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"MBX" { $servers += Get-MailboxServer | select -ExpandProperty name }
"ALL"
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default { }
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Notable changes:
Removed the test variables out of the function and added them as parameters
Modified the Parameters a bit:
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- The first parameter will be interpreted as the file path
- The second parameter will be interpreted as Servertype
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you if/ifelse/else construct has been replaced with a switch (I vastly prefer them but they do the same functionally
I removed the unnecessary temporary storage variables.
Appended a placeholder scriptblock at the end that shows you how to iterate over each set of items and select a new server each time.
I hope this helps you in your quest to conquer Powershell :)
Cheers,
Fred
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Flex IO error# 2032 when using IE7 for parallel https calls across two servers

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I am building a mobile employee directory and for that I am using Flash Builder 4.6/AIR 3.1.0. I am using RESTful web service to get XML results and to display on my mobile application. I am getting the same below error when accessing the webservice from mobile app (Android - Galaxy Tab 7 inch).
Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error # 2032"] URL: http://adfdevp.alshaya.com:7013/RESTEmployeeDetails-EmployeeDetails-co">http://adfdevp.alshaya.com:7013/RESTEmployeeDetails-EmployeeDetails-co ntext-root/jersey/restlabhttp://adfdevp.alshaya.com:7013/RESTEmployeeDetails-http://adfdevp.als haya.com:7013/RESTEmployeeDetails-EmployeeDetails-co ntext-root/jersey/restlabEmployeeDetails-context-root/jersey/restlab
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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Murtaza Ghodawala
Mobile: +965 97180549
[email protected]

WDA application differs across application servers

Hi,
when transporting from dev to Q, with Q running on 4 different app servers, we see different behaviour of our WDA application. This manifests itself as (for instance) columns of tables not being in the same positions, and also different column widths within the same tables.
It may be down to the different app servers running different versions of the WDA application, but then my question would be: how do we ensure all app servers are "synchronized" whenever we release a new transport? As of now, the users report conflicting test results based on the app behaving differently depending on which app server they happen to be routed to...
OSS doesn't seem to hold any clues to this kind of behaviour. Would a simple flush of the browser cache be sufficient, or is this to do with the app servers themselves (cache, memory, whatever...?)
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I don't believe that the app servers holding different versions of a program, it should be same across the systems.
Pl check with the following:
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Retain navigation steps across WAD templates

Hello experts,
I have a web report that is built using several templates. Each template has a tab container (same tabs across the templates) and a sort button. When navigating across the templates, the users want to retain the last template's navigation steps: same tab, same sorting (right now, the default tab and sorting is executed every time the user goes to a new template).
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Thank you Janine,
You are right: I can switch from a template to another using TRANSFER_STATE in a button and keep the tab and the sorting.
The problem remains with RRI. I have set some query jumps. Users can right click on a row and Goto another template/queries that is filtered for the user's selection (drill down).
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RV320 Bonjour Discovery across VLANs?

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I have a network consisting of 2 VLANs - one for the "main" network and one for a "guest" network setup using an RV320 router. I have a couple of Apple TVs and a Sony smart TV setup on the main network VLAN. I would like these devices to be discoverable and usable on the guest VLAN as well. After reading various articles about Bonjour, it seems that this is not easily done.
Can anyone confirm whether or not it is possible to provide this functionality on the RV320 router? Any advice would be most appreciated.
Regards.

Hi Richard,
My name is Andrew and I am a content developer for the Cisco knowledge base.
There is bonjour discovery on the RV320. According to the admin guide, page 61, under the System Management tab. " When this feature is enabled, the device
periodically multicasts Bonjour service records to the LAN to advertise its
existence." According to the photo I provided, it does allow you to enable bonjour on different VLANs.
From there, you can enable or disable bonjour for specific VLANs.
It seems like your configuration would be similar to this topology below,
Where the RV320 can route traffic across different VLANs (with bonjour enabled). You might want to check your Port Management tab if inter-vlan routing is enabled.
I hope this answers your question.

ACE module not load balancing across two servers

We are seeing an issue in a context on one of our load balancers where an application doesn't appear to be load balancing correctly across the two real servers. At various times the application team is seeing active connections on only one real server. They see no connection attempts on the other server. The ACE sees both servers as up and active within the serverfarm. However, a show serverfarm confirms that the load balancer sees current connections only going to one of the servers. The issue is fixed by restarting the application on the server that is not receiving any connections. However, it reappears again. And which server experiences the issue moves back and forth between the two real servers, so it is not limited to just one of the servers.
The application vendor wants to know why the load balancer is periodically not sending traffic to one of the servers. I'm kind of curious myself. Does anyone have some tips on where we can look next to isolate the cause?
We're running A2(3.3). The ACE module was upgraded to that version of code on a Friday, and this issue started the following Monday. The ACE has 28 contexts configured, and this one context is the only one reporting any issues since the upgrade.
Here are the show serverfarm statistics as of today:
ACE# show serverfarm farma-8000
serverfarm     : farma-8000, type: HOST
total rservers : 2
                                                ----------connections-----------
       real                  weight state        current    total      failures
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   rserver: server#1
       x.x.x.20:8000      8      OPERATIONAL 0          186617     3839
   rserver: server#2
       x.x.x.21:8000      8      OPERATIONAL 67         83513      1754

Are you enabling sticky feature? What kind of predictor are you using?
If sticky feature is enabled and one rserver goes down, traffic will leans to one side.
Even after the rserver retuns to up, traffic may continue to lean due to sticky feature.
The behavior seems to depend on the configuration.
So, please let me know a part of configuration?
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