Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5: LITE

By Arvind Maheshwari

Written by senior members of the Oracle team, this book is a hands-on tutorial detailing Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control's management of Middleware. The material has been carefully selected from Packt’s fuller 350 page “Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5”. If you are a Middleware or System Administrator or an IT Architect who wants to maximize the system performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions, then this book is for you. You’ll also find it helpful if you are a DBA who wants to become a Middleware Administrator. You should have basic knowledge of middleware/application server management.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: May 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9781849683715

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Table of Contents

Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5: LITE

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

Preface

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. 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

4. 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

Index

Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5: LITE

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Middleware Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g R5: LITE

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Credits

Authors

Debu Panda

Arvind Maheshwari

Reviewers

Joseph S. Gomez

Ulises Lazarini

Peter McLarty

Acquisition Editor

James Lumsden

Technical Editor

Arun Nadar

Indexer

Monica Ajmera Mehta

Production Coordinator

Shantanu Zagade

Cover Work

Shantanu Zagade

About the Authors

Debu Panda, lead author of the best selling EJB 3 in Action (Manning Publications), is a Product Management Director on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Management development team, where he drives development of the middleware management aspects of Oracle Enterprise Manager. He has more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry and has published more than 30 articles on enterprise Java technologies and has presented at leading technology conferences such as Oracle Open World, Java One, and so on. Debu maintains an active blog on middleware technologies at http://www.debupanda.com.

I would like to thank my wife, Renuka, for her immense support and continuous encouragement and for her patience with all the late nights and weekend hours I have spent on the book in the past 9 months. I would also like to thank my kids, Nistha and Nisheet, who did not demand my attention while I wrote this book.

Many thanks to Rajiv Taori, Senior Director of Product Management and Ali Siddiqui, Vice President of Oracle Application and Systems Management Products for allowing me to fit this book into my busy schedule, and for their constant encouragement.

Thanks to Rajiv K. Maheshwari, Rao Bethanabotla, Madhav Sathe, Nicole Haba, Rahul Goyal, Senthil Saivam, Sandeep Pandita, Ajay Jagannatha Rao and the entire Enterprise Manager Middleware Management development team at Oracle for their help while writing the book.

Many thanks to James Lumsden and the entire team at Packt Publishing for turning our drafts to a book! I would also like to extend my thanks to all the reviewers of the book.

Finally, I would like to thank my co-author Arvind Maheshwari for his hard work and help in completing the book.

Arvind Maheshwari, is a senior Software Development Manager for the Oracle Enterprise Manager development team, is focused on building management solutions for middleware. He has 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has played the role of Developer, Consultant, Architect, and Manager in the Financial, Manufacturing, and Telecom industries, developing enterprise solutions that are deployed in high-availability architectures.

I thank my wife Seema, kids Ashutosh and Anusha, for letting me use precious family time to work on this book.

I thank my management chain—Ali Siddiqui, Rajiv Maheshwari, and Rahul Goyal for supporting the idea of writing a book about Middleware management.

I thank Senthil Saivam, Manish Bisarya, Rishi Saraswat, Venkatesh Audinarayan, Govinda Sambamurthy, Sandeep Pandita, Rajiv Kuriakose, Ravi Ummadi, Suresh Kotha, Anil