Audit report and analyse overview. Audit report user guide v1.1

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1 Audit report and analyse overview Audit report user guide v1.1

2 Contents Service Overview... 3 Customer Agent Installation... 3 Customer Windows setup... 4 Enable SNMP... 4 Allow inbound SNMP in Windows Firewall... 6 Ensure outbound HTTPS is allowed... 6 Analysing the Audit Report... 7 Audit report user guide v1.1

3 Service Overview An audit of your current infrastructure can be carried out to ensure we match the cloud infrastructure to the actual usage of your environment (as opposed to its allocated physical resources). This is important to ensure the most performant and efficient service offering is provided, whilst identifying any cost savings. The audit requires a low impact collector application to be loaded onto any server to monitor the infrastructure and usage over the internal network. All data is stored for the continuous 7 days of the audit in a highly secure location before being deleted after the audit report is completed. The instructions show what is required in a Windows 2012 R2 Server environment. Other versions of Windows may require slightly different steps, but the requirements are the same. Customer Agent Installation 1. Download the agent software from Note: The software is for Windows only, but the agent can poll any SNMP-enabled host, including Windows and Linux 2. Extract the file Highlight.Agent.Bundle.Setup.exe from the zip and run it 3. Agree to the terms & conditions and click Install 4. When prompted, enter the Activation code. This will have been previously ed to you and will be in the format: XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. Fill in the Service URL in with Click Next and complete the installation 5. You should now have the following icon on the desktop. Double-click on it 6. After a few minutes, the Agent should show the following status

4 The important field is Connection Status. Once this says Connected, it shows that connectivity is in place between the Agent and the Highlight platform. This then allows Gamma to configure the endpoints for monitoring. Customer Windows setup Enable SNMP 1. Go to Turn Windows features on or off and tick the Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) box, then OK 2. Run services.msc and double-click on the SNMP Service

5 3. Click on the Security tab, then click Add to add a new community called highlightro. This should be a Read only community 4. Click on the Accept SNMP packets from any host radio box and then OK

6 Allow inbound SNMP in Windows Firewall 1. Open Windows Firewall 2. Click on Advanced Settings 3. Click on Inbound Rules, then New Rule 4. Choose Port then Next 5. Choose UDP and enter 161 in the Specific local Ports field, then Next 6. Choose Allow the Connection then Next 7. Ensure Domain, Private and Public are all ticked and click Next 8. Give the rule a name (e.g. Inbound SNMP) and click Finish Ensure outbound HTTPS is allowed By default, outbound https is allowed from Windows hosts. You should ensure this server is allowed outbound https to any destination. This is required for the Agent to send its collected information to the Highlight platform via a secure, encrypted HTTPS connection.

7 Analysing the Audit Report The report will contain the key elements being created in the Cloud Compute environment over a 7-day period i.e. Memory, CPU and Storage. An introductory summary page will illustrate the servers with their current specifications and the suggested specification. Each of the following sections will illustrate each server and their 7-day utilisation results. The Audit report will show the results and recommendations based on minimising the server size requirements while meeting the usage found during the auditing survey. The goal is to ensure a performant solution without over specifying the server to ensure costs are Finally, the amount of storage will be suggested based on current usage and predicted growth. It is very simple to expand the size of the storage volume so the recommendation will be close to the current usage with some head room.