applying vistara runbook automation
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Applying Vistara
AutomationMahesh Ramachandran
Senior Director, Product Management, Vistara
February 2015
Agenda
• Vistara Automation - Goals
• Automation Use Cases
• How To Configure RBAs
• Demo Three Scenarios
• Q&A
Vistara Automation – Goals
• Automate common management
tasks at scale
• Save manual effort
• Eliminate human error
• Improve consistency
Use Cases
• On demand system administration tasks
– E.g. Check 100s of severs for a security
vulnerability (e.g. Heartbleed)
• Routine system administration tasks across:
– E.g. Scrape old logs from 100 servers to a
central repository for future audits
• Collect additional context around an alert
– E.g. Get processes running when alert
occurred
• Auto remediate issues as they come up
– E.g. Restart a Windows service if it is down
How to do the following for RBA scripts…
• Setup up permissions
• Create
• Organize
• Run on demand
• Run on schedule
• Run an Alert
• View output
• Report
Scenario #1: Identify OpenSSL version installed, on demand
Scenario
• A new security vulnerability has been identified –
it is all over the news (like recent Heartbleed
issue !)
Your task
• Check all your servers if vulnerable version of
OpenSSL is installed
Solution
• Run an RBA script that checks OpenSSL
version across your servers
• Export output to identify which servers need an
update
What version of
SW installed?
Servers
Scenario #2: Archive log files to central location on a schedule
Scenario
• Your organization has a new audit and compliance
policy
–Key log files in production servers must be
archived for 36 months for audit
Your task
• Move key logs files in all your servers to a central
archive in AWS S3 storage
Solution
• Run an RBA script that collects log files from each
server and moves them to AWS S3
Log Files
Log Archive
Servers
Scenario #3: Collect context around an alert aid troubleshooting
Scenario
• You are seeing an intermittent failure on devices that
is proving hard to troubleshoot
–You want to get a snapshot of key information
from the device when the failure happens
Your task
• Collect a snapshot of key information whenever a
specific alert occurs
Solution
• Configure RBA script to be run when an alert
triggers
Server
Website
https://vistarait.zendesk.com
To request enhancements
Thank You!