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Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5
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Table of Contents
Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
Complexities in modern applications
Middleware administrator — a man with several hats
Key challenges faced by administrators
What this book covers
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Enterprise Manager Grid Control
Key features of Enterprise Manager Grid Control
Comprehensive view of the data center
Performance data
Configuration data
Status of scheduled operations
Inventory
Unmanned monitoring
Historical data analysis
Configuration management
Managing multiple entities as one
Service level management
Scheduling
Automating provisioning
Information publishing
Synthetic transaction
Manage from anywhere
Enterprise Manager product family
Products managed by Enterprise Manager
Enterprise Manager Architecture
Target
Oracle Management Service (OMS)
Oracle Management Agent (OMA)
Oracle Management Repository (OMR)
Enterprise Manager Console
Enterprise Manager High Availability
Summary
2. Installing Enterprise Manager Grid Control
Installation procedure
Pre-requisite
Operating system requirements
Downloading the software
Installing OMS and repository
Installing Grid Control 10gR1 or 10gR2
Upgrading to Grid Control 10gR5
Installing Management Agent
Starting and stopping Grid Control
Starting and stopping OMS
Starting and stopping the repository database
Starting and stopping the Agent
Summary
3. Enterprise Manager Key Concepts and Subsystems
Target
Target definition
Target lifecycle
Discovery of a target
Configuration for monitoring
Updates to a target
Stopping monitoring of a target
Monitoring
Fetchlets
Metrics definition
Metric collection and aggregation
Metric alerts
Monitoring templates
Configuration management
Policy
Configuration snapshot
Job
Notification system
Provisioning
Deployment procedures
Software library
Service Level Management
Information publishing
Report definition
Report element
Summary
4. Managing Oracle WebLogic Server
Introducing WebLogic Server
Supported versions
Discovering WebLogic Server
Adding a new WebLogic Server Domain
Monitoring WebLogic Server
Availability and state
Performance monitoring
Event notifications and setting metric thresholds
Setting up notification methods
Setting up e-mail preferences for admin user
Setting the notification rules
Jobs and corrective action
Corrective action job
Configuration management
Asset tracking
Policy management
Enforcing a custom policy
Service level management
Creating a system
Creating a service
Role based access control
Creating an EM user and assign targets
Summary
5. Managing Oracle Application Server
Discovery and Target Model
Tasks for Oracle Applications Server Administrator
Provisioning
How to use this feature
Monitoring
Monitoring availability
How to use this feature
Monitoring performance
How to use this feature
Applications performance monitoring
Monitoring of Application Infrastructure
How to use this feature
Monitoring end-user experience
How to use this feature
Thresholds and notifications for metrics
How to use this feature
Configuration management
Configuration change tracking
How to use this feature
Configuration compliance
How to use this feature
Configuration comparison
How to use this feature
Patching
How to use the feature
Summary
6. Managing Forms and Reports Services and Applications
Architecture of Oracle Forms and Reports Services
Monitoring of Oracle Forms and Reports Services
Discovery of Oracle Forms and Reports Server
Managing Forms Server
Setting the metric thresholds
Managing Reports Server
Setting the metric thresholds
Monitoring Forms applications
Configure your Windows client
Configure SSL certificate
Creating a Forms System
Creating Forms application
Forms and Reports provisioning
Summary
7. SOA Management — BPEL Management
Introducing BPEL Process Manager
Supported versions
Discovery of BPEL Process Manager
BPEL Process Manager running on OC4J
Monitoring configuration
Agent configuration
BPEL Process Manager running on WebLogic
Monitoring Configuration
BPEL Process Manager running on WebSphere
Monitoring BPEL PM and BPEL processes
Monitoring BPEL PM
Monitoring BPEL Processes
BPEL process metrics
Monitoring model for BPEL processes
Configuration management
Lifecycle Management for BPEL PM
BPEL suitcase deployment
Provisioning and patching of BPEL PM
Best practices for BPEL PM management and monitoring
Summary
8. SOA Management — OSB (aka ALSB) Management
Introducing Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
OSB constructs
Proxy service
Business service
Message flow
Supported versions
Discovery of Oracle Service Bus
Monitoring OSB and OSB services
Monitoring OSB
Monitoring OSB services
Monitoring proxy services
Monitoring business services
Configuration management for Oracle Service Bus
Lifecycle management for Oracle Service Bus
How to use this feature
OSB best practices
Summary
9. Managing Identity Manager Suite
Oracle Identity Management targets
Discovery of Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
Discovery of Access Manager
Access Server
Discovery of Identity Server
Identity Manager Server
Identity Federation Server
Monitoring Identity and Access Management Suite
Service level management
Configuration management
Summary
10. Managing Coherence Cluster
Coherence overview
Discovery of the Coherence cluster
Starting Coherence management node using bulk management Mbeans
The Coherence Target Model
Discovering Oracle Coherence
Monitoring of Coherence cluster
Setting up the metric threshold
Monitoring Coherence node
Monitoring Coherence cache
Monitoring connections and connections managers
Comparing and propagating changes
Provisioning the Coherence cluster
Summary
11. Managing Non-Oracle Middleware
Non-Oracle middleware support
Managing open source middleware
Managing Apache HTTP Server
Managing Apache Tomcat
Installing the Tomcat plug-in
Discovering Tomcat Server
Managing JBoss Application Server
Managing IBM middleware
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