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Title: BP0830: Implementing Fathom Management in Your Environment Case Studies
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BP0830Implementing Fathom Management in Your
Environment - Case Studies
- Angelo Tracanna angelo.tracanna_at_progress.com
- Brian Bowman bowman_at_progress.com
- Esteemed Panel
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Todays Talk
- Product specific
- Intermediate level
- Experiential
- Panel discussion
- Case studies
- Summary
- Next steps
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Panel Discussion
- Scott WilsonIT Manager, Musco Sports Lighting
- USA
- Bryan YoungIT Manager, Quicken Loans
- USA
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Who is Quicken Loans?
- The Leading on-line Mortgage Lender
- Part of the Quicken family
- Clicks and Bricks
- We have Simplified the Mortgage Process
- The best place to work in Detroit!
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Musco LightingWorld-class manufacturer of
sports lighting
- Permanent and temporary lighting services
range from Neighborhood
Little League fields - NASCAR super-speedways
- Olympic Games
- Film sets of major motion pictures
such as Titanic
- Pioneered dramatic, affordable solutions for
- Complete, foundation to pole-top
sports-lighting systems - Energy efficiency
- Spill light and glare control
- Automated on/off scheduling
- Special effects in large indoor arenas
800/825-6030 www.musco.com
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Quicken Loans Architecture
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Musco Lighting Architecture
Nagios
Nagios Server
Fathom Trend DB
AppServer
AppServer Log
Linux OS
WebSpeed
AdminService
WebSpeed Log
FM
RDBMS
Batch Jobs
4GL Clients
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Quicken
Challenges Faced
- IT policy be proactive!
- Too many homegrown tools
- Time consuming to build maintain
- Expensive to build maintain
- Needed to monitor business critical web site
- Improve effectiveness of DBA staff
- Need to focus on higher level tasks
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Musco Lighting
Challenges Faced
- No full-time DBA development team has little
Progress expertise - Could not trend data without custom code
- Still using cron
- Customers sessions disconnected
- System stability (instability??? bad indexes)
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Initial Benefits
- Quicken Loans
- Network monitoring
- Alerts
- Monitor HTTP resources
- CPU usage monitor
- File system monitor
- Trend data
- Musco Lighting
- Rule sets
- Operator mode
- Monitor storage areas
- Log file monitor
- Disconnect users
- Reports
- Template paradigm
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How will Quicken Loans Use Fathom Management in
the Future?
- Replace many
- Jobs with Fathom Scheduler
- Homegrown performance monitoring tools
- Monitor WebSpeed AppServer
- Monitor application logs for
- Errors
- Success of batch jobs
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How will Musco Lighting Use Fathom Management in
the Future?
- Replace many
- Jobs with Fathom Scheduler
- Homegrown performance monitoring tools
- Monitor WebSpeed AppServer
- Better data for sr. management
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Quicken Loans Future Requirements
- Remote system monitoring (CPU, memory, files)
- Intelligent DB performance reporting
- Plugins to monitor application statistics
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Musco Lighting Future Requirements
- Ability to natively monitor WebSpeed appServer
- Remote system monitoring (CPU, memory, files)
- Monitor full AI extents
- Single sign on Integrate Fathom login with host
login - Hot standby
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Summary
- Fathom Management is helping
- Automate processes simplify expert-level tasks
- Reduce operational costs
- Increase productivity
- Improve system information
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What Should You Do Next?
- Attend sessions
- BP1500, Whats new with Fathom Clusters?
- BP0380, Progress replication products overview
- BP1290, How to make Fathom Management really pay
off - Try Fathom Management online at
- www.progress.com/fathom
- Register to win a Compaq iPAQ
- Register for Fathom Management Beta at
- www.progress.com/beta
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Thank you for your time.
