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Preface


Purpose

This guide provides user instructions for the Oracle Trace Manager application, which is the Oracle Trace graphical user interface.

Audience

This guide is written for Oracle Trace users who want to set up data collections using the Oracle Trace Manager application.

How This Guide Is Organized

This guide is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, Overview

Provides a general description of Oracle Trace.

Chapter 2, Using Oracle Trace

Describes how to invoke Oracle Trace, the Oracle Trace Manager windows and menus displayed, and how to exit. Included in this chapter are instructions for discovering products and troubleshooting.

Chapter 3, Working with Collections

Describes how to create, edit, stop, and delete Oracle Trace collections.

Chapter 4, Querying Oracle Trace Data

Describes how to optimize report performance, and how to create both generic reports and specialized reports.

Appendix A, Using Oracle Trace for Oracle Server Data Collections

Contains instructions for creating Oracle Server collections. It also contains information on Oracle Server events and data that can be collected with Oracle Trace.

Appendix B, Oracle SQL*Net Events

Describes events that have been instrumented in Oracle SQL*Net.

Conventions Used in This Guide

The following tablelists the conventions used in the guide.

Convention   Explanation  

#

 

The default superuser prompt.

 

%

 

The default user prompt.

 

[Ctrl/C]

 

Press the Ctrl key while you simultaneously press another key (in this case, C).

 

italics

 

Italicized words indicate variables, such as a file or directory name.

 

$ORACLE_HOME

 

Represents the directory where you installed Oracle Enterprise Manager components and Oracle Enterprise Manager Performance Pack products. The directory name may be different on your system.

 

otracexx

 

The xx represents the version of the database for which you are collecting data; for example, otrace73 for the Oracle Server release 7.3.

 

SQL*Net

 

Represents SQL*Net and Net8.

 

This guide also assumes that you are familiar with the operation of Microsoft Windows NT. Refer to the Windows documentation for your system, if necessary. In general, this guide shows the directory names as they are used in UNIX; on an NT system, delineate directory names with a backslash (\).

To reduce wordiness and redundancy, menu and submenu choices are joined by arrows. For example, Collection=>Create refers to the Create Collection choice in the Collection menu.

Related Publications

The following documentation provides additional information about Oracle Enterprise Manager:

Oracle Corporation also publishes a README file, which is available on your distribution media. This file provides information about software functionality and restrictions that was not available at the time product documentation was produced. For software updates that are not accompanied by new manuals, this file may also describe any minor changes in the product.

It is important that you read this file so that you have an accurate understanding of the software's functionality.




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