ckelner / datadog-ansible-ms-sql

Datadog + Ansible for Windows Servers running MS SQL

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - DOES NOT WORK AT THIS TIME

datadog-ansible-ms-sql

Datadog + Ansible for Windows Servers running MS SQL.

Provision

• AWS Quickstart

  • Be sure to follow https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/sql/step3.html
    • If you use defaults, when you use the RDGW you need to connect as example\Admin

• Or alternatively provision SQL servers manually using AWS supplied AMIs.

  • https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/RDS/Deploying_SQLServer_on_AWS.pdf

• Be sure to open port 3389 (RDP) and 5986 (Ansible win_ping) to your IP.

Architecture

Ansible

• http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_windows.html#windows-system-prep

Target Servers

Be sure to prep windows servers for Ansible by following these instructions.

Credentials

Copy group_vars/tmobile-manual.yml.example to group_vars/tmobile-manual.yml and fill in the necessary credentials.

Inventory

Create an inventory file locally (e.g. ./inventory which has been ignored in .gitignore [server ips could be commited to SCM if so desired if working in a private setting with a team larger than one]) and use it with the -i <inventory-path> when you run ansible, or update /etc/ansible/hosts on your machine. File should contain something akin to:

[tmobile-manual]
<ip/DNS>
<ip/DNS>
...

Test the connectivity to these servers: ansible <inventory-group-name> -i <inventory-file> -m win_ping which should result in something like:

<ip-address> | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
<ip-address> | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

SQL Server

Failover: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/sql/step4.html

Generate Load

There's a few scripts in the repo to do random things too. #TODO

• https://github.com/ErikEJ/SqlQueryStress
• https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/05/how-to-fake-load-tests-with-sqlquerystress/
• http://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/example-schema/sql-server/performance-testing-scalability

Links

• https://gist.github.com/ckelner/c14812e83e5d78eac62c7e99c15c79af
• https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/faq/can-i-collect-sql-server-performance-metrics-beyond-what-is-available-in-the-sys-dm-os-performance-counters-table-try-wmi/
• https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/faq/how-to-retrieve-wmi-metrics/
• https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/faq/how-can-i-collect-more-metrics-from-my-sql-server-integration/
• http://wutils.com/wmi/root/cimv2/win32_perfformatteddata/