Contents

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Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Structure
• Related Documents
• Updated Terminology
• Conventions

1 What's New in Enterprise Manager 10.2

• New in Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5 (10.2.0.5)
  • Enterprise Manager Framework
  • Database Management
  • Middleware Management
  • Server Management
  • Applications Management
  • Lifecycle/Provisioning Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Extensibility Framework Enhancements
  • New System Management Plug-ins and Connectors
• Features of Enterprise Manager 10g
  • Grid Management Features
  • Service Management Features
  • Enterprise Reporting Features
  • Database Management Features
  • Middleware Management Features
  • Collaboration Suite Management Features
  • Broader System Coverage
  • New Target Monitoring Plug-ins and Connectors
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Management Pack
  • Enhanced Diagnostics and Management Packs

2 Introduction

• Quality of Service: Bridging the Business with IT Infrastructure
  • Extended Application Server Management
• Lowering Management Costs Through the Grid
  • Knowing What You Have and What You Are Running
  • Certified Configurations: Bringing Harmony to an Ever-Changing Data Center
  • Error-Free Automated Provisioning: Linux, Oracle RAC, Certified Images, Patches, Upgrades
  • Patch Management
• Management for the Complete Oracle Grid Environment
  • Extensions and Management Plug-ins
  • Oracle Integrated Management Partnerships
• Conclusion

3 Overview of Enterprise Manager

• System Monitoring
• Managing Groups
• Job System
• Information Publisher
• Compliance Management
• Extending Enterprise Manager
• Managing Targets

4 Enterprise Configuration Management

• Hardware and Software Configurations
  • Collected Configurations
  • Viewing Configurations
  • Comparing Configurations
  • The Enterprise Configuration
    • Viewing the Enterprise Configuration
    • Searching the Enterprise Configuration
    • Viewing the Enterprise Configuration History
  • Client Configurations
    • Client System Analyzer in Grid Control
    • Client System Analyzer Deployed Independently
  • Accessing Configuration Pages in Grid Control

5 Database Management

• Introduction to Database Management
  • Database Control Versus Grid Control
  • Database Home Page as the Management Hub
• Monitoring Databases
  • Assessing Database Performance
  • Diagnosing Problems Interactively
    • Investigating a Wait Class
    • Viewing Top Activity
  • Diagnosing Problems Automatically
  • Using Additional Diagnostic Pages
    • Top Consumers
    • Instance Activity
    • Historical SQL
  • Using Other Performance Tools
    • Topology Viewer
    • Metric Baselines
    • Memory Access Mode
    • Hang Analysis
• Administering Databases
  • Managing Storage Objects
  • Using Database Configuration Features
  • Using Automatic Storage Management
  • Converting Single Instances to Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Converting to a Locally-Managed Tablespace
  • Controlling Resources with Resource Manager
  • Tracking Statistics to Improve Database Performance
  • Using Oracle Scheduler
  • Working With Database Schemas
  • Managing Database Objects
  • XML Database Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • Managing Users and Privileges
  • Managing Materialized Views
  • About Change Management
  • Using Advisors in Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Masking Sensitive Data for Non-production Use
  • Security and Regulatory Compliance
  • Roles of Data Masking Users
  • Format Libraries and Masking Definitions
  • Recommended Data Masking Workflow
  • Data Masking Task Sequence
  • Defining New Masking Formats
  • Using Oracle-supplied Predefined Masking Formats
    • Patterns of Format Definitions
    • Category Definitions
    • Installing the DM_FMTLIB Package
  • Creating a Masking Definition
  • Adding Dependent Columns
  • Cloning the Production Database
  • Deterministic Masking
  • Use Cases
  • Related Oracle Security Offerings
• Maintaining Databases
  • Using Backup
  • Recovery
  • Flashback Recovery
  • Backup and Recovery Settings
  • Managing Restore Points
  • Overview of Data Guard
• Additional Maintenance Features
  • Exporting and Importing Features
  • Cloning Databases or Transporting Tablespaces
  • Overview of Oracle Streams
  • Working with Software Configurations
  • Using Database Software Patching
• Monitoring Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Cluster Cache Coherency
  • Cluster Interconnects
  • Cluster-Managed Database Services
  • Oracle Clusterware and High Availability
  • Database High Availability

6 Service Management

• Introduction to Services
  • Defining Services in Enterprise Manager
• Modeling Services
  • Availability
  • Performance and Usage
  • Business Metrics
  • Setting Service-Level Rules
  • Monitoring Templates for Services
• Managing Systems
  • Creating Systems
  • Monitoring Systems
• Monitoring Services
  • Services Dashboard
  • System Topology
  • Service Topology
  • Reports
  • Notifications, Alerts, and Baselines
  • Service Performance
  • Monitoring Web Application Services
    • Transactions
    • End-User Performance Monitoring
  • Monitoring Forms Applications
    • Forms Transactions
    • End-User Performance Monitoring
• Diagnosing Service Problems
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Diagnosing Web Application Problems
    • Interactive Transaction Tracing
    • Request Performance Diagnostics

7 Change Management for Databases

• Overview of Change Management for Databases
• Dictionary Baselines
  • Scope Specification
  • Capturing a Dictionary Baseline Version
  • Working With A Dictionary Baseline Version
  • Working With Multiple Dictionary Baseline Versions
• Dictionary Comparisons
  • Defining Dictionary Comparisons
  • Working with Dictionary Comparison Versions
• Dictionary Synchronizations
  • Defining Dictionary Synchronizations
  • Creating a Synchronization Definition from a Comparison
  • Working with Dictionary Synchronization Versions
    • The Dictionary Synchronization Cycle
  • Creating Additional Synchronization Versions

8 Middleware Management

• Introduction to Middleware Management
  • Out-of-Box Management Using Oracle Application Server Control
  • Centralized Management Using Enterprise Manager
• Monitoring Middleware Targets
  • What Gets Monitored?
  • Viewing Critical Information
    • General Information
    • Alerts and Host Alerts
    • Policy Violations
  • Viewing Information About Applications Deployed
  • Viewing Members
  • Monitoring Performance
    • Using Performance Metrics
    • Automated Monitoring and Alerts
  • Viewing Topology
  • Monitoring Dashboard
• Administering Middleware Targets
  • Managing and Creating Blackouts
  • Managing and Creating Jobs
  • Creating Services from J2EE or Web Applications
  • Creating Infrastructure and Aggregate Services
  • Adding SOAP Tests for Partner Links
  • Adding SOAP Tests for Oracle Service Bus Proxy Services
  • Adding SOAP Tests for Web Services of Applications Deployed to Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
  • Provisioning BPEL Processes
  • Provisioning Oracle Service Bus Resources
  • Creating Log Rotation Jobs
  • Managing Configurations
  • Extensible Monitoring
  • Diagnosing Performance Issues with Top Reports
  • Analyzing Historical Performance
• Maintaining Middleware Targets
  • Managing Backup and Recovery of the Application Server Environment
  • Cloning and Patching the Middleware Environment
• Managing Identity Management Targets
  • About Access and Identity Management
    • Access Manager
    • Access Server
    • Identity Server
    • Identity Manager
    • Identity Federation
  • Using Grid Control for Monitoring Identity Management Targets
    • Identity Component Server Home Page
  • Identity Management Systems
    • Configuring Identity Management Systems
    • Creating an Access Service
    • Creating an Identity Service
    • Creating an Identity Manager Service
    • Creating an Identity Federation Service
    • Monitoring Services
  • Identity Management Root Cause Analysis
  • Automated Identity Management and Alerts
  • Diagnosing Identity Management Performance and Availability Problems
  • Leveraging the Grid Control Management Framework

9 Host and Third-Party Target Management

• Host Management
  • Monitoring Hosts
    • Host Home Page
    • Host Performance Page
    • Host Configuration Page
    • Operating System Details
    • Hardware Details
    • Log File Monitoring
    • Program Resource Utilization Monitoring
    • File and Directory Monitoring
    • Hardware Monitoring for Dell PowerEdge Systems
  • Storage Resource Tracking
  • Host Administration
    • Linux Host Administration
    • Execute Host Command
    • Job System
    • Remote File Editor
    • Managing Host Deployments
• Third-Party Target Management
  • Support for Third-Party Application Servers
  • Support for Third-Party Plug-Ins
  • Network Appliance Filer
  • F5 Load Balancer Switches

10 Oracle Collaboration Suite Management

• Visualizing Your Collaboration Suite Deployment
  • Collaboration Suite Services
    • Service Monitoring
  • Collaboration Suite Systems
• Automated Collaboration Suite Monitoring and Alerts
• Oracle Collaboration Suite Root Cause Analysis
• Diagnosing Oracle Collaboration Suite Performance and Availability Problems
• Collecting and Using Collaboration Suite Client Configuration Data
• Oracle Collaboration Suite Reports
• Leveraging the Grid Control Management Framework
• Administration for Oracle Collaboration Suite Instances

11 Identity Management

• About Access and Identity Management
  • Access Manager
    • Access Server
    • Identity Server
  • Identity Manager
  • Identity Federation
• Using Grid Control for Monitoring Identity Management Targets
  • Identity Component Server Home Page
• Identity Management Systems
  • Configuring Identity Management Services
    • Creating an Access Service
    • Creating an Identity Service
    • Creating an Identity Manager Service
    • Creating an Identity Federation Service
  • Monitoring Services
• Identity Management Root Cause Analysis
• Automated Identity Management Monitoring and Alerts
• Diagnosing Identity Management Performance and Availability Problems
• Leveraging the Grid Control Management Framework

12 Oracle Beehive Management

• About Oracle Beehive
• Using Grid Control for Monitoring Oracle Beehive Targets
• Discovering Oracle Beehive Sites
  • Oracle Beehive Site Home Page
  • Rediscovering an Oracle Beehive Site
• Oracle Beehive System and Services
• Automated Oracle Beehive Monitoring and Alerts

13 Lifecycle Management

• Lifecycle Management Overview
  • Advantages of Using Enterprise Manager Provisioning and Patching Features
  • Wide Coverage Across the Stack
• Software Provisioning
  • Deployment Procedures
  • Cloning
• Server Provisioning
• Provisioning Concepts
  • Components
  • Directives
  • Images
  • Software Library
• Using the Provisioning Features
  • Setting up and configuring the environment
  • Creating Components, Directives, and Images
• Patching
  • Patching Through Deployment Procedures
  • Patching Features
  • Application of Critical Patch Updates
    • Applying Critical Patches in Offline Mode
    • Accessing Critical Patch Advisories Pages in Grid Control
  • Application Server Patching
  • Linux Host Patching
    • Enhanced Linux Patching for ULN
    • Patching Features
  • Operating Systems Patching
  • Accessing Patching Pages in Grid Control

14 Virtualization Management

• Introduction to Virtualization Management
  • Virtualization Central Page as the Management Hub
  • Oracle VM Server Home Page
  • Guest VM Home Page
• Monitoring Oracle VM
• Administering Oracle VM
  • Editing Guest VM
• Provisioning Oracle VM Server and Guest VM
  • Creating Virtual Server Pool
  • Registering Virtual Servers
  • Creating Guest Virtual Machines

A Oracle Beehive Service Dashboard Metrics

• Oracle Beehive Metrics

Glossary

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