What is Systems Management? Centralized Management. Systems Management. Network Management. Systems Management. CS 140MCS140M Fall 2014Fall 2014

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Systems Management

Desktop Management

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What is Systems Management?

• Systems Management is a set of software tools and processes that help maintain and update the integrity of the files and applications on a desktop computer, and assist in returning a system to a usable state in case of a problem.

• Imaging is a tool to replicate the hard drive information to multiple computers and configuring them for use.

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Systems Management

• Systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including (and commonly in practice) computer systems.

• Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications. • The Application Performance Management (APM)

technologies are now a subset of Systems management. • Maximum productivity can be achieved more efficiently

through event correlation, system automation and predictive analysis which is now all part of APM.

Centralized Management

• Centralized management has a time and effort trade-off that is related to the size of the company, the expertise of the IT staff, and the amount of technology being used:

– For a small business startup with ten computers, automated centralized processes may take more time to learn how to use and implement than just doing the management work manually on each computer.

– A very large business with thousands of similar employee computers may clearly be able to save time and money, by having IT staff learn to do systems management automation. – A small branch office of a large corporation may have access to

a central IT staff, with the experience to set up automated management of the systems in the branch office, without need for local staff in the branch office to do the work.

Systems Management

• System management may involve one or more of the following tasks:

– Hardware inventories.

– Server availability monitoring and metrics. – Software inventory and installation. – Anti-virus and anti-malware management. – User's activities monitoring.

– Capacity monitoring. – Security management. – Storage management.

– Network capacity and utilization monitoring. – Anti-manipulation management

Network Management

• Network management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and

tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning of networked systems. Network management is essential to command and control practices and is generally carried out of a network operations center.

– Operation deals with keeping the network (and the services that the network provides) up and running smoothly. It includes monitoring the network to spot problems as soon as possible, ideally before users are affected.

– Administration deals with keeping track of resources in the network and how they are assigned. It includes all the housekeeping that is necessary to keep the network under control.

– Maintenance is concerned with performing repairs and upgrades—for example, when equipment must be replaced, when a router needs a patch for an operating system image, when a new switch is added to a network. Maintenance also involves corrective and preventive measures to make the managed network run better, such as adjusting device configuration parameters.

– Provisioning is concerned with configuring resources in the network to support a given service. For example, this might include setting up the network so that a new customer can receive voice service.

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FCAPS

• A common way of characterizing network management functions is FCAPS—Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security.

• The comprehensive management of an organization's information technology (IT) infrastructure is a fundamental requirement. • Mean time to repair (MTTR) must be as short

as possible to avoid system downtimes where a loss of revenue or lives is possible.

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System Applet

•The System applet of the Windows Control Panel and services.msc, Microsoft Management Console Snap-in can dramatically increase the speed of any Windows 7 computer, as perceived by the end-user.

Basic Strategies

• No direct editing of the System registry • Make reversible changes to the Windows

operating system

• Make Image Backups and Restore Points, prior to making changes

• Take advantage of the compounding effects of multiple speedup tweaks

Process

• Step 1: Make an image backup of your Windows hard drive

• Step 2: Create a Restore Point with Windows System Restore

• Step 3: Set Visual Effects for Best Performance • Step 4: Supersize the swap file

• Step 5: Install an uninstaller

• Step 6: Use services.msc to disable some services • Step 7: Perform Error-checking on all hard drives. • Step 9: Defragment all hard drives

• Step 10: Turn off startup programs

Drive Image Backup

• Use Macrium Reflect Free Edition,

Clonezilla, Acronis True Image Home,

or Windows Backup AND an external

hard drive to create a backup image of

the entire C: drive of your computer.

Create a Restore Point

• Use Windows' System Restore to

create a Restore point

o See

o

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Create-a-restore-point and o http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3195/cr eate-a-system-restore-point-in-windows-7/

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Create a Restore Point

• Click on Start which is located at the left or bottom of the gray Taskbar

Create a Restore Point

• Click on Control Panel in the Start menu:

Create a Restore Point

• Click on Create a restore point.

• System Properties will be displayed:

• Click on Create:

Create a Restore Point

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Create a Restore Point

• Type in an appropriate name for the restore point:

Create a Restore Point

• Click on the Create button:

Create a Restore Point

• Click on the Close button:

Set Visual Effects for Best Performance

• Click on Use tools to improve performance in the Control Panel.

Set Visual Effects

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• Click on Tips for improving your computer’s performance:

• Click on Adjust visual effects:

• A Performance Options dialog box will be displayed:

• Click on the Adjust for Best

Performance radio button and press OK:

• Click on the Apply button

Set Visual Effects • Wait for the Please Wait to disappear • Close the Performance Options dialog box

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• Click on Advanced Tools.

Advanced Tools

Use services.msc to Disable Services

• Click on Start button

Use services.msc

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Use services.msc

• Click on Action in the Menu bar

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Use services.msc

• Click on the Export List in the pull-down menu:

Use services.msc

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Use services.msc

• Stop and disable services that you do not need.

Use services.msc

• For documentation on what you can stop and disable, see

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Use services.msc

• and http://www.blackviper.com/2010/12/17/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/ • and http://www.techknowl.com/disable-unwanted-services-and-speed-up.html • and http://www.techduke.com/2007/06/20/windows-services-background-processes-explained/ • and http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/7service.htm • and http://www.computingunleashed.com/speed-up-windows-7-ultimate-guide-to.html • and http://windows7themes.net/windows-7-services-safe-to-disable.html • and http://tweakhound.com/windows7/tweaking/8.html • and http://www.optimizingpc.com/windows7/optimizing_windows_7_services.h tml • and http://www.techknowl.com/disable-unwanted-services-and-speed-up.html • and http://www.speedyvista.com/windows7/services.php Fall 2014 CS140M Lake 4444

Use services.msc

• For example, to stop and disable the Themes service, do the following inside the Services box:

• Step 1: Locate the Themes service:

Use services.msc

• Step 2: Use your RIGHT mouse botton to click on the Themes service:

Use services.msc

• Step 3: Click on Properties in the pop-up context menu:

Use services.msc

• Step 4: A Themes Properties box will be displayed:

Use services.msc

• Step 5: Click on the Stop button to stop the Themes service:

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Use services.msc

• Step 6: Click on drop-down list button to the right of Automatic:

Use services.msc

• Step 7: A drop-down list will be displayed:

Use services.msc

• Step 8: Click on Disabled in the drop-down list:

Use services.msc

• Step 9: Startup type will now be shown as Disabled:

Use services.msc

• Step 10: Click on the Apply button:

Use services.msc

• Step 11: Click on the OK button to make the Properties box disappear:

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Defragment all hard drives

• Click on the Start button which is located at

the left or bottom of the gray Taskbar :

Defragment all hard drives

• Click on Computer

in the Start menu:

Defragment all hard drives

• A Windows Explorer window will be displayed: Fall 2014 CS140M Lake 5858

Defragment all hard drives

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Defragment all hard drives

• A Properties dialog

box will be displayed:

Defragment all hard drives

• Click on the

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Defragment all hard drives

• Click on the

Defragment now… button.

Defragment all hard drives

• After the defragmentation for the C: drive completes, you should defragment any additional hard drives or hard drive partitions where you store data files:

• Click on the listing of the drive; then click on the Defragment button.

• Do NOT run the defragmentation process on hard drives or hard drive partitions that belong to the Windows operating system such as those named System, System Reserved, Dell Utilities, Factory Image, Backup, etc.

Questions?

Assignment

• Do the following:

– Create the steps to Create a Restore Point with Windows System Restore

– What Windows 7 uninstallers are available? – Create the steps to perform hard drive error checking – What does it mean to supersize the swap file? What are the

minimum/maximum/optimum values for a swap file? – Create the steps to perform an image backup of your system

• Note: in each of the items make the instructions step-by-step and include screen shots