Preface

This chapter describes the purpose and organization of this guide. The following information is discussed:

Purpose of this Guide

This guide describes Oracle^® Enterprise Manager, Release 9.0.1: Oracle's system management Console, common services, and integrated platform graphical tools. Oracle Enterprise Manager also provides an integrated set of standard database administration applications to help automate and simplify the common daily tasks of administrators. These supplemental applications focus on specific areas of database administration, helping administrators with their daily and routine tasks of managing databases and other services and keeping them operational.

From the client interface, the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console, you can do the following:

Centrally administer, diagnose, and tune multiple databases
Manage non-database Oracle products and services
Effectively monitor and respond to the health of your Oracle family of products and third-party services 24 hours a day
Schedule jobs on multiple nodes at varying time intervals
Monitor networked services for events
Customize your display by organizing databases and other targets into logical administrative groups

While using Enterprise Manager products, you should refer to the online help for specific information on the displayed dialog box, menu, or window. You can display the online help by pressing F1 or selecting a Help button if present.

For an overview of the Oracle Enterprise Manager system, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide.

Audience

This guide is written for those who wish to use Oracle Enterprise Manager to perform system administration tasks.

This guide assumes you are familiar with the administrative tasks you wish to perform. If you are not, refer to the Oracle server documentation set. The Oracle server documentation set contains specific and thorough descriptions of the database administration tasks you can perform with Enterprise Manager applications. In addition, the Oracle server documentation set provides recommendations on how to administer your database optimally. If you have not yet read the introductory chapters of the Oracle server administrator's guide, we recommend that you do so. These chapters describe the specific responsibilities of a database administrator.

You should also be familiar with the operation of your specific Microsoft Windows or UNIX system. See the documentation for your Windows or UNIX system, if necessary.

How this Guide Is Organized

This guide is divided into chapters as described below.

Part I: Oracle Enterprise Manager Console

Chapter 1, "Console"

This chapter describes the Enterprise Manager Console, its basic configuration and functions, as well as system adminstrative functions such as paging, email, and managing administrators.

Chapter 2, "Navigator"

This chapter explains the Navigator component of the Enterprise Manager Console, associated menus, and managing objects within the Navigator such as discovering services, managing web servers, and generating reports.

Chapter 3, "Working with Groups"

This chapter explains the Group component of the Enterprise Manager Console and how using Groups can simplify administering your enterprise.

Chapter 4, "Jobs"

This chapter explains how to use the Job Scheduling component of Enterprise Manager to automate administrative tasks.

Chapter 5, "Events"

This chapter explains how to use the Event Management component of Enterprise Manager to monitor managed nodes and services.

Chapter 6, "Enterprise Manager Event Handler"

This chapter explains how to use the Event Handler to monitor for specific event conditions and have Enterprise Manager respond to them automatically.

Chapter 7, "Enterprise Manager Reporting"

This chapter explains how to use Enterprise Manager's integrated reporting functionality and how to publish generated reports to an HTTP server.

Chapter 8, "Enterprise Security Management"

This chapter explains how to use Enterprise Security Manager to administer enterprise user security for the Advanced Security Option.

Part II: Database Administration Tools

Chapter 9, "Database Administration"

This chapter introduces the database management functionality, which is an integrated set of standard database administration applications to help automate and simplify the common daily tasks of administrators. It also describes the user interface elements used in the database administration applications.

Chapter 10, "Managing Backup and Recovery"

This chapter explains how to use the Oracle Enterprise Manager Backup Management wizards to administer your database backup and recovery environment.

Chapter 11, "The Standalone Console"

This chapter introductes the option of launching the Console standalone, thus allowing a single administrator to perform simple database schema, instance, storage, security, and other database tasks by connecting directly to the target database(s) without using the Management Server or Intelligent Agents on target machines.

How to Use This Guide

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide has been designed to be used closely with the Oracle Server documentation set. While this guide describes how to use Enterprise Manager to perform database administration tasks, the Oracle Server documentation set describes the reasons for and the implications of performing these tasks. Consequently, you should refer to the Oracle Server documentation set while using Enterprise Manager to perform your administrative tasks.

For an overview of the Enterprise Manager system, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide. After reading this manual, you may choose to proceed directly to those chapters that are relevant to the tasks you plan to perform using Enterprise Manager.

Before using the database administration applications, you should read Chapter 9, "Database Administration". This chapter provides an overview of the organization and user interface elements of the applications.

While using the Enterprise Manager products, you should refer to the online help for specific information on the displayed dialog box, menu, or window. You can display the online help by pressing F1 or selecting a Help button if present.

Conventions Used in This Guide

The following sections explain the conventions used in this guide.

Examples

This guide contains code examples. Note that the text of examples appears in a different font than the text of the guide. This is an example of a SELECT statement:

SELECT * FROM emp

Examples in this guide follow these case conventions:

Keywords, such as CREATE and NUMBER, appear in uppercase. Keywords have special meanings. When you specify them, they can be in uppercase or lowercase, but they must be used exactly as they appear in the code example.
Names of database objects and their parts, such as emp and empno, appear in lowercase. However, in the text of this guide, names of database objects and their parts appear in uppercase.
Parameters act as place holders in examples. They appear in lowercase. Parameters are usually names of schema objects, Oracle datatypes, or expressions. When you see a parameter in a syntax diagram, you should substitute an object or expression of the appropriate type. Note that parameter names appear in italics in the text of this guide.

Command Syntax

Italics is used for variables, such as oem_tool
| denotes alternative choices
{param1 | param2 | ... } signifies that one of the parameters in {} must be used
[ ] identifies optional parameters

Special Text

Special text is provided to alert you to particular information within the body of this guide and within other manuals.

Note:

This indicates important information related to Enterprise Manager.

Additional Information:

Where necessary, this refers you to your operating system-specific Oracle documentation for additional information.

Attention:

This highlights information that is important when performing the described task.

Suggestion:

This signifies suggestions and practical hints that can be helpful when using Enterprise Manager.

Warning:

This indicates information that you should be aware of before you perform the action described in the current section.

Documentation Set

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Release 9i documentation includes the following:

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Readme Release 9i provides important notes on updates to the software and other late-breaking news, as well as any differences between the product's behavior and how it is documented.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide Release 9i provides information about configuring the Oracle Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide Release 9i provides an overview of the Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide Release 9i describes the components and features of the Oracle Enterprise Manager system.
The Oracle Intelligent Agent User's Guide describes how to administer the Oracle Intelligent Agent.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Messages Manual Release 9i contains probable causes and recommended actions for Oracle Enterprise Manager errors.
The Oracle Enterprise Mangager Event Test Reference Manual contains detailed descriptions of all available event tests.

In addition to the Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation set, extensive on-line help is provided for components in Oracle Enterprise Manager.

To download free release notes or installation documentation, please visit the Oracle Documentation Center at http://docs.oracle.com/

Printed documentation is available for sale in the Oracle Store at http://oraclestore.oracle.com/

Related Publications

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide refers to important information in related publications. Depending on the version of the Oracle database, you would refer to the appropriate release. The related books referred to in this guide are listed below:

For general information about the Oracle9i and how it works, see Oracle9i New Features and Oracle9i Concepts.
For information about administering Oracle9i, see the Oracle9i Administrator's Guide.
For information on Oracle's SQL commands and functions, see the Oracle9i SQL Reference.
For information about Oracle messages and codes, refer to Oracle9i Error Messages.
For information about the Oracle networking system, see your network-specific documentation.
For information about the Oracle9i for other platforms, see your platform-specific documentation.
For information on Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters, refer to the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration, which provides essential information for preparing Oracle9i for use with Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters and Oracle Enterprise Manager. The "Introducing Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters" chapter provides a conceptual and component overview of Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters. This information will help you prepare and plan your Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters installation and configuration in an Oracle9ienvironment.

Oracle Corporation also publishes several files that are available on your distribution media. These files are usually named README, RELNOTE, BUGHST, and RESTRICT and have extensions such as .HTM, .WRI, .DOC, and .TXT. Read these files to learn about changes to the software or documentation that has not been described in the guides. The exact names and locations of the files mentioned above may vary, depending on your operating system.

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