Application Lifecycles start when the software is envisioned and lasts until it is retired. Most of that time is generally spent in maintenance and upgrade, after an application is deployed into production but before it is retired. This session will describe how to optimize this segment of the application’s lifecycle with new Microsoft Visual Studio tools.

1. Imaginet Live Webcast:
Operations Management
in the Application Lifecycle
Imaginet and ALM…
Efficiently Build Better Software

2. Agenda
• Overview Dev/Ops
• SCOM 2012
– Monitoring applications
– Integration with TFS
• PreEmptive Analytics
• IntelliTrace in
Production

3. Application Lifecycle Management in 2012
• SCOM Integration
• IntelliTrace in Production
• PreEmptive Analytics
Operate Define
•Monitor •Requirements
•Support •Validation
•Upgrade •Prioritization
•Release Plan
Develop
•Iteration Plan
•Develop
•Test

4. A day in the life…
Hello, Help desk? Ok… We‟ll get
The application is right on it…
broken… again.
Hmmm… Server
looks fine.
Network is good.
Must be the app…
Hey Development?
Your app is broken
again. Please fix it.
WTF???
Here we go
again…

5. Agenda
• Overview Dev/Ops
• SCOM 2012
– Monitoring applications
– Integration with TFS
• PreEmptive Analytics
• IntelliTrace in
Production

6. “The App” in the world of Infrastructure
• Operations/IT supports Infrastructure & Applications
– Infrastructure supports applications
– The Cloud is shifting focus to the application
• Applications aren‟t inherently easily monitored
– Application instrumentation is an afterthought
– Instrumentation is inconsistent
• IT can‟t be an expert on each application

7. What is System Center?
• System Center is a family of
operations management
applications
• Historically used to monitor
system and network health
• SC 2012 Supports:
– Infrastructure management and
monitoring
– System deployment and
configuration automation
– Application Management
• Application Performance
Management (APM)
– Integrated in 2012
– Leverages AVICode purchase
from October 2010
– Supports .NET and Java

8. .NET APM with SCOM 2012

9. Bridge the Gap between Ops and Dev
APM with System Center Hmmm… It looks like
Operations Manager: an application problem.
Let me send you some
actionable information
• Out of box App Discovery and so that we can resolve
Monitoring the issue quickly!
• Help IT isolate and triage
application issues
• No noticeable impact on
throughput of the app
• Less than 5% CPU impact for Wow… This is enough
the managed server useful information
that I might be able
to fix this today!
• No need to write custom SC
management packs or
instrument the code
• Useful information for efficient
escalation to development

10. DEMONSTRATION
SCOM 2012 and TFS
• Capturing application
events in SCOM 2012
• Assigning to Development
• Reviewing issues in TFS
• Closing the loop

11. Agenda
• Overview Dev/Ops
• SCOM 2012
– Monitoring applications
– Integration with TFS
• PreEmptive Analytics
• IntelliTrace in
Production

12. What is PreEmptive Analytics?
• PreEmptive Solutions has
been know for their
Dotfuscator obfuscation tools
• PreEmptive Analytics (PA)
Runtime Intelligence Service
was released in 2010:
– What features are people
using
– Where in the world are they
– When are they using it
– What are their machines like
• PreEmptive Analytics (PA) for
TFS provides incident tracking
for Team Foundation Server

13. PreEmptive Analytics for TFS
• Runtime data transmitted from instrumented applications
– Binaries are instrumented after the compilation process
– Instrumentation supports existing and emerging platforms
– Integrated into optimization and security platforms as needed
– Built-in support for personal privacy and opt-in policy enforcement
• Data is filtered and aggregated based on rules and forwarded to
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server as work items
– Aggregates and analyzes exceptions and automatically creates work
items based upon your rules and operational thresholds.
– Can respond within seconds or in cadence with your development sprint.
• Intelligent, feedback-driven development
– Understand how the app is behaving in production
– Developers can prioritize fixes based on quantitative data
• Community Edition – Free and out-of-the-box with TFS 2012

14. A day in the life… with PA
Hmmm… The application
is throwing some
exceptions – I should let
the development team
know.

15. PA for TFS Installation
• Install:
– Log into the TFS Application Tier and Access TFS Admin
Console
– Click the installation link and walk through the wizard
– Provide an account used to create/sync Work Items
– Provide an endpoint
(e.g., VSALM:8000/message/EndPoint.ashx)
• Configure:
– Add a TFS and collection
– Apply team project(s)
• Create the Incident Work Item Type
• Creates the All Incidents Work Item Query
• Adds two reports
– As needed, modify exception sets

16. Configuring Assemblies for Instrumentation
• Optionally, add the PreEmptive functional attributes in
the source code
– Reference the PreEmptive.Attributes assembly
– Add a Setup attribute to a startup method:
[PreEmptive.Attributes.Setup(CustomEndpoint=“vsalm:8000/message/EndPoint.ashx”)]
– Add a Teardown attribute to a shutdown method:
[PreEmptive.Attributes.TearDown()]
– Build the .NET solution
• Create and build a Dotfuscator project
– Select the input assemblies
– For each assembly to report on…
• Add an ExceptionTrackAttribute
• Add a BusinessAttribute with the CompanyKey GUID
• Add a ApplicationAttribute with the Application GUID
• Optionally, add functional attributes to setup and tear down
– Build the project

17. PreEmptive Analytics Incident Reports
• Available as “Incident” work
items in TFS
– Work Item type and query
installed with server
– Uses a custom work item
control to display details
• Provides standard reports for
viewing summary data:
– Incidents Over Time
– Open Incidents
• Incident data includes:
– Applications
– Businesses
– Components
– Faults
– Chain of exceptions
– Stack trace

18. DEMONSTRATION
PreEmptive Analytics
• Installing and configuring
the server
• Instrumenting the client

19. PA for TFS - Community Edition Restrictions
• Community edition is limited to:
– On-premises data repository
– One TFS Instance
– Two Team Projects
– Three rules per Project
– .NET Only
• Professional (paid) edition includes:
– Customizable exception rule types
– Thrown and caught exception processing
– Custom data support
– Java, Win 32/64 C++ or JavaScript
– SSL Support
– Technical Support

20. Agenda
• Overview Dev/Ops
• SCOM 2012
– Monitoring applications
– Integration with TFS
• PreEmptive Analytics
• IntelliTrace in
Production

21. What is IntelliTrace?
• “Application flight recorder”
– Captures events during application execution
• Dynamically instruments code
– Can capture selected events
– Can also capture call information (more intensive)
• Records program execution flow
• Records program data
– parameters & return values
• Supports analysis and replay of the logs from within
the Visual Studio debugger

22. What is IntelliTrace?
Without IntelliTrace
With IntelliTrace • Record
• Playback
• Rewind

23. IntelliTrace in 2010 and 2012
• In Visual Studio 2010
– Highly configurable
• Capture selected events
• Can capture call information
– Can be used in development,
directly from Visual Studio
– From a test environment, log
files can be captured and
replayed in Visual Studio
• In Visual Studio 2012
– All of the above
– Can be used in production
– No “installation” required
– Uses PowerShell scripts:
• Start Collection
• Get Collection Status
• Stop Collection

24. DEMONSTRATION
IntelliTrace in Production
• „Install‟ IntelliTrace
• Prepare the server
• Turn on IntelliTrace
• Capture the events
• Turn off IntelliTrace
• Review the results in
development

25. Summary
• One of the next gaps being
bridged by Microsoft with
Visual Studio 2012 is
Development  Operations
• Visual Studio 2012 integrates with
Microsoft System Center 2012
– System Center supports Application Performance Management
– Issues reported in TFS directly from operations and SCOM
• Microsoft partner PreEmptive has released PreEmptive
Analytics for TFS which will allow your applications to
“phone home” directly without IT involvement
• Microsoft has expanded IntelliTrace so that actionable logs
can be captured in production and then consumed by
developers for troubleshooting.

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