# Installation Guide

# Introduction

This document describes how to install WebLogic Operations Control (WLOC).

## Guide to This Document

This document includes the following sections:

- Introduction—This section.
- Preparing For Your Installation—Describes how to obtain WLOC, lists WLOC components, and gives other pre-install information.
- Installing WLOC—Provides step-by-step installation instructions.
- Post-Installation Information—Describes the files created during installation, the Windows start menu entries, and updates.
- Uninstalling WLOC—Provides instructions for removing installed WLOC components.

## Related Information

The WLOC documentation set includes the following:

- Installation Guide—This document.
- Introducing WebLogic Operations Control—Provides a high-level overview of WLOC.
- Plain Agent Use Case Example— Provides a basic use-case example for WLOC using a Plain Agent.
- Configuration Guide—Describes how to configure and manage WLOC Controller and Agents, configure services and policies to manage services, and configure security. It also describes how to use WLOC to monitor, log, and audit the operations of your services and resources.
- Securing a Production Environment—Highlights essential security measures for you to consider before you deploy WLOC into a production environment.
- WLOC Administration Console Help—The online help for WLOC’s graphical user interface. You can access the WLOC Administration Console Help either by clicking the Help link in the upper right corner of the Administration Console, or at `http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13156_01/wloc/docs103/ConsoleHelp`.
- Controller Configuration Schema Reference—A reference to the XML Schema used to persist the configuration of the WLOC Controller component.
- Agent Configuration Schema Reference—A reference to the XML Schema used to persist the configuration of the WLOC Agent component.
- Service Metadata Configuration Schema Reference—A reference to the XML Schema used to persist the configuration of WLOC services.
- Message Catalog—A reference to messages generated by WLOC.