CITATION

De Gruyter, Werner; Hart, Matthew; and Nguyen, Daniel. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Handbook. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2010.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Handbook

Published:  March 2010

eISBN: 9780071634236 0071634231 | ISBN: 9780071634229
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Installing and Deploying Grid Control
  • 1 What is Grid Control? Enterprise Manager Concepts
  • Enterprise Management Software
  • The Various Management Tools
  • Grid Control Concepts
  • Grid Control Components
  • The Flow of Information
  • The Different Types of Targets
  • Summary
  • 2 Preparing and Installing the Environment
  • Preparing for the Install
  • Installing Grid Control
  • Postconfiguration on the Repository Server
  • Postconfiguration on the OMS Server
  • Securing the Environment
  • Postconfiguration for Patching and Provisioning
  • EMCLI
  • Setting up a Test Environment
  • Installation and Deployment Best Practices
  • Summary
  • 3 Grid Control and Maximum Availability
  • Why High Availability?
  • 4 Deploying Agents into the Enterprise
  • Preparing the Server Machine
  • Different Types of Install
  • Using the Agent Download Install
  • Using the Agent Push Install
  • Using the Shared Agent Install
  • Postinstallation tnd Configuration Steps
  • Securing the Agent
  • Configuring the Agent for Large Systems
  • Summary
  • 5 Grid Control: Sizing the Environment and Other Best Practices
  • Just How Many OMS Servers do I Need?
  • Installing and Deploying Grid Control: Common Mistakes
  • Summary: Best Practices
  • 6 Maintaining and Managing the EMGC Infrastructure
  • Monitor the Monitor
  • Managing the Core Infrastructure
  • Keeping up with Changes in the Data Center
  • Summary
  • Part II: Grid Control Common Tasks and Functions
  • 7 Principles of Target Monitoring
  • Monitoring and Managing a Target
  • Navigating the UI Console for Target Monitoring
  • Target State and Availability
  • Summary
  • 8 Managing EM Users and Audits
  • Defining Administrators
  • Defining Roles and Assigning Privileges
  • Set up Centralized Authentication
  • Auditing
  • Summary
  • 9 Metrics and Notifications
  • Maximizing the Power of Grid Control Metrics
  • Getting the Most (or Should we Say Least) out of Notifications
  • Summary
  • 10 Jobs and Task Automation
  • Jobs
  • The Job System
  • Analyzing, Diagnosing, and Troubleshooting Jobs
  • Summary
  • 11 Reporting and Dashboards
  • Reports
  • Creating a New Report
  • Dashboards
  • Summary
  • Part III: Enterprise Manager Power User’s Guide
  • 12 Host Management
  • Hosts
  • Summary
  • 13 Systems, Services, and Groups
  • Systems
  • Services
  • Groups
  • Defining the EM System and Service
  • Summary
  • 14 Database Management in Grid Control
  • Enterprise Manager Database Control
  • Configuring Databases in Grid Control
  • Database Administration in Grid Control
  • Grid Control and Managing the Production Database Ecosystem
  • Summary
  • 15 RAC and Cluster Management
  • Managing RAC Clusters in Grid Control
  • Configure the Cluster Components in Grid Control
  • Navigating Through the Cluster Resources
  • Summary
  • 16 Data Guard Management
  • The High Availability Console
  • Creating a Physical Standby Database in Grid Control
  • Summary
  • 17 Application Monitoring
  • The Complexity of Online Operations
  • Servicing Applications
  • Working with Beacons
  • Summary
  • 18 Troubleshooting and Diagnostics
  • Troubleshooting the Install
  • Logging and Tracing the Infrastructure
  • Diagnosing Agent Problems
  • Diagnosing OMS Problems
  • Using EMDIAG
  • Summary
  • Part IV: Appendixes
  • A: Configuration Files
  • Agent
  • OMS: Management Server
  • B: Configuration Parameters
  • Agent: Properties in the emd.Properties File
  • OMS: Properties in the emoms.Properties File
  • C: Log Files
  • Agent
  • OMS: Management Server
  • Install, Configure, and Patch
  • D: Environment Variables
  • Environment Variables Used by EMCTL on the Agent
  • Environment Variables Used by EMCTL on the Oracle Management Server (OMS)
  • E: Standard Repository Views
  • F: Command-Line Tool Options
  • EMCTL: Agent-Side Commands
  • EMCTL: OMS Server-Side Commands
  • EMCTL: As Control Commands
  • G: Acronyms
  • Glossary
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • G
  • H
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • W
  • Index