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.