Elasticsearch – Introducing New Containerized Metrics
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Want to see what’s happening in your Connections environment? Metrics are a key tool for understanding usage patterns, community activities and general adoption across the organization. In this session we will cover the introduction of a new metrics solution that we delivered for Connections 6 customers in late 2017 to replace Cognos. Get the details on migration, installation and a roadmap for what we are working to add in 2018.
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Elasticsearch – Introducing New Containerized Metrics
- 1. Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 13 Elasticsearch - Introducing New Containerized Metrics Jim Puckett Product Manager IBM Connections, IBM Docs @jimtpuckett
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- 3. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018
- 4. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 13 Containerized Metrics An Introduction and Feature Overview
- 5. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Introducing an alternative solution for Connections Metrics Agenda • Why Elastic Search • Feature Overview • Demo • Architecture • How to install • Data Migration • Questions ?
- 6. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Why Elasticsearch ? • Cognos End of Support Announced (April 2018) Cognos BI 10.2.x End of Support • Migration to Cognos 11 for Connections customers would require significant effort. • V11 also introduced a new 2 year lifecycle statement “IBM Cognos Analytics V11.0 will optionally support Maintenance Support Releases to provide predictable support through regular, cumulative, in-place fixes for a minimum period of two years from the general availability date.” • Connections Customer Satisfaction with Cognos solution is low. • Difficult to install, manage and support. • Connections Cloud is using Elasticsearch. • Using Elasticsearch for public and private cloud aligns with overall strategy to align cloud and private cloud solutions. • Elasticsearch is open source solution that provides greater flexibility for IBM Connections and our customers.
- 7. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Statement of Direction - Metrics Elasticsearch Metrics is now available as an alternative software program for the Metrics feature within IBM Connections v6. The IBM Connections v6 Metrics feature now supports both of these programs: • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10.2.2 • Elasticsearch Metrics On April 30, 2018 the following is planned: • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10.2.x reaches End of Support. • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10.2.x will no longer be available for download directly from Passport Advantage. • Through the Cognos Continuing Support program option, active S&S Connections customers can continue to receive support for Cognos BI 10.2.x, as described here: • Cognos BI 10.2.x Continuing Support http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22005165 • IBM Connections plans to deliver an interim release for IBM Connections v6 that will remove Cognos Business Intelligence v10.2.2 as a supporting program from the Connections License. • Existing Connections v6.0 customers who wish to continue using Cognos Business Intelligence v10.2.2 should NOT deploy this interim release. • This is a License only modification. There are no new features or functionality changes. After April 30, 2018: • Connections v6 customers who continue to use Cognos BI v10.2.2 as the metrics program will receive only non-defect support. The Continuing Support program offering for Cognos BI v10.2.x, as described in the Technote: Cognos BI 10.2.x Continuing Support, is extended to Connections v6 customers who maintain active S&S, and they will be entitled to any security fixes and defect fixes publicly released by the Cognos team for BI v10.2.2. on Fix Central. • If full defect support is required, customers should review the Cognos Continuing Support documentation and purchase a plan that meets their requirements. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22012379
- 8. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Overview • Existing On Premises Metrics uses the relational database and Cognos for its reporting. • With Connections 6.0 CR1 and Connections Component Pack 1* - we are providing Elasticsearch. We are only using Elasticsearch Metrics capability for now, but are planning to utilize additional capabilities of Elasticsearch in the future. It’s deployed via Kubernetes. • The Metrics applications are still Websphere based (for now), which makes this initial release a hybrid of Pink and Blue code. *Component Pack updated to 6.0.0.5 (2/28/2018)
- 9. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Functional Overview • Consistent UI approach between Public and On Premises Core Functionality Remains the Same • Administrators can view reports for organizational metrics • Community owners can view reports for community metrics • J2EE roles still restrict access to designated users/groups Specific Differences between Cognos Metrics and Elasticsearch today • No “All Years” date range • No filtering by role, geography • No export of data • Rankings not weighted
- 10. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Demo
- 11. Introducing Connections Component Packs ü Simplifies deployment of new Pink infrastructure ü Guided install of only the components required for the Pink capabilities being deployed ü Easy upgrade path to add on incremental infrastructure as you expand to additional Pink services Elasticsearch Mongo Redis SOLR Zookeeper Metrics Customizer Orient Me GA: December 12,2017 (6.0.0.4-ComponentPack)
- 12. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Architecture
- 13. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Installing Containerized Metrics • Download,install 6.0 CR1 and Component Pack to set up Elasticsearch server. • Detailed instructions for 6.0 CR1 are provided in Knowledge Center (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/migrate/t_inst all_fixpack.html) • Detailed instructions for Connections Component Pack (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/install/c_in stall_orient_me_homepage.html) Pink/Blue integration (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/install/t_confi guring_elasticsearch_for_metrics.html) • Admin must run a script on Pink server to send server host and port to Blue. • Admin must copy SSL certificates from Pink to Blue. FixCentral Connections 6x: Top level Link
- 14. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics No Outage Migration • Customers are not required to migrate immediately. • Third party solutions that utilize relational db need time to be modified. • Separate apps allow both implementations to run. • After Elasticsearch install, Cognos Metrics is still in place, capturing events and providing it’s UI. • New Metrics apps also installed so admins can migrate and verify functionality.
- 15. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Migration overview • Migrate data from existing relational database to Elasticsearch. • This is an iterative process. Detailed instructions provided in IBM Knowledge Center . • Run data migration scripts (copies data to Elasticsearch). • Validate after scripts complete (available at /metricssc). • Switch users to new metrics (run script). • Re-run migration script (using date range) to account for content that occurred during original migration script run. • This step can be run multiple times if needed.
- 16. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Questions ?
- 17. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Back Up
- 18. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison: Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics Default Landing page UI
- 19. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison:Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics Gaining With Elasticsearch: Profiles +Number of new Updates +Number of unique Contributors Communities +Most followed content Bookmarks +Most active content Files +Most active files +Most followed content +Number of new updates Activities +Most followed content +Number of new updates Blogs +Most followed content +Number of new updates +Number of unique contributors Forums +Most followed content +Number of new updates Wikis +Most followed content +Number of new updates Others +Top Followed People
- 20. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison:Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics Not available with Elasticsearch: Profiles -People with the most followers overall -People with the most new followers Communities -Number of new Communities Bookmarks -Most visited bookmarks Date Range Filter: -All Years -Custom Group By Filter: -Geography -Role -Department
- 21. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison:Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics Moderation : Number of New Rejected Items Moderation metric is available from Participation View selection.
- 22. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison:Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics General navigation differences (one example: Communities- Number of visits) Date range filter: Slide vs dropdown
- 23. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison:Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics General navigation differences (one example: Communities- Number of visits) Table View
- 24. Social Connections 13 Philadelphia, April 26-27 2018 Elasticsearch - New Containerized Metrics Comparison:Elasticsearch Metrics(today)vs Cognos Metrics Navigation: View All Metrics Essentially same navigation for this view in both
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