Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5 Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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 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

• Chapter 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
• Applications performance monitoring
• Thresholds and notifications for metrics
• Configuration management
• Configuration change tracking
• Configuration compliance
• Configuration comparison
• Patching
• How to use the feature
• Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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
• Managing IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Managing IBM WebSphere MQ

• Best practices for managing non-Oracle Java middleware
• Managing Microsoft Middleware
• Installing Plug-ins

• Discovery of Microsoft middleware
• Monitoring Microsoft middleware

• Service Level Monitoring for third-party targets
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Java and Composite Applications Monitoring and Diagnostics
• Composite Application Monitor and Modeler
• Supported products
• CAMM architecture
• Installation and configuration
• Monitoring and diagnosing Composite Applications with CAMM
• Application Diagnostics for Java (AD4J)
• AD4J Architecture
• Installation and configuration
• Starting up AD4J Console
• Diagnosing Java applications
• Tracing a thread
• Cross-tier diagnostics

• Summary

• Chapter 13: Building Your Monitoring Plug-in
• Introducing Sun Java Web Server
• How plug-ins work
• Plug-in artefacts
• Management Plug-in Archive (MPA)
• Plug-in deployment
• Monitoring targets using a plug-in
• Exercise—monitor Sun Java Web Server
• Pre-requisites
• Exercise steps
• Setup on agent side
• Configuration from Enterprise Manager Console
• Exercise summary
• Overview of artefacts used for monitoring of Sun Java Web Server
• Target definition
• Target metrics
• Target artefacts
• Target metadata
• Target collection
• Packaging and deploying a plug-in
• Packaging
• Deploying
• Advance features for plug-ins
• Charts
• Other advanced features
• Summary

• Chapter 14: Best Practices for Managing Middleware Components Using Enterprise Manager
• Provisioning
• Creating gold images
• Use software library as central repository
• Define deployment procedures for all provisioning activities
• Routine monitoring
• Select monitoring indicators and define acceptable limits
• Use monitoring templates
• Setup notification rules
• Manage many-as-one
• Defining Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Define service tests
• Configuration management
• Save configuration snapshots
• Use configuration comparison
• Configuration compliance
• Lifecycle management
• Using the Critical Patch advisory
• Using deployment procedures for patching
• Use the job system library
• Using the multi-tasking jobs
• Information publishing
• Using reports for information publishing
• Use database views for publishing information
• Summary

• Index