Preface

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts Guide presents a general overview of Oracle^® Enterprise Manager Release 9.0.1.

Oracle Enterprise Manager is a system management tool which provides an integrated solution for managing your heterogeneous environment. The product combines a graphical console, agents, common services, and tools to provide an integrated, comprehensive systems management platform for managing Oracle products.

Refer to the Oracle Enterprise Manager online help or the Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide for information on how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager.

For program updates and important notes on using Oracle Enterprise Manager, refer to the Oracle Enterprise Manager Readme.

Intended Audience

This guide explains the general concepts of Oracle Enterprise Manager. You should already be familiar with Oracle and the administrative tasks you wish to perform.

For general information about the Oracle9i and how it works, refer to Oracle9i Database Concepts. For information about database administration procedures, refer to the Oracle9i documentation set. The Oracle9i documentation set contains specific and thorough descriptions of the database administration tasks you can perform with Oracle Enterprise Manager tools. In addition, the Oracle9i documentation set provides recommendations on how to administer your database optimally.

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

How this Guide Is Organized

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

Chapters	Description
Chapter 1, "Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager"	Chapter 1 describes the overall architecture and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager: the Console, Oracle Management Server, and the common services.
Chapter 2, "The Console"	Chapter 2 describes the layout and use of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console.
Chapter 3, "Job and Event Systems"	Chapter 3 describes the Job Scheduling and Event Systems, which execute jobs and monitor for occurrences on sites throughout the network.
Chapter 4, "Database Administration"	Chapter 4 describes the database administrative functionality bundled with Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Chapter 5, "Oracle Management Packs and Integrated Applications"	Chapter 5 describes Oracle Enterprise Manager's integrated applications and the optional system management packs which extend Oracle Enterprise Manager's functionality.
Appendix A, "Keyboard Navigation"	This appendix contains non-standard keys.

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.

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 Documents

Related publications are listed below:

• For information on the new features, new options, and enhancements of Oracle9i, refer to Oracle9i Database New Features. It identifies what is available with each edition of Oracle9i (Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Personal Edition). It references the documentation that is available for Oracle9i and identifies deprecated or desupported features.

• For information on how the Oracle server functions, Oracle9i Database Concepts offers a conceptual foundation for much of the practical information contained in other Oracle server manuals.

• For information on administering the operation of an Oracle database system, refer to the Oracle9i Database Administrator's Guide. This guide will contain information for creating Oracle databases, ensuring their smooth operation, and monitoring their use.

• For information on Oracle's SQL commands and functions, refer to the SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference.

• For information on error messages that may appear while using products that are part of Oracle, refer to Oracle9i Database Error Messages. Each message listing in the manual contains the message statement, an explanation of the probable cause(s) of the message, and a recommended action.

• For information about Oracle Globalization Technology matters, refer to Oracle9i Globalization Support Guide.

• For information about the process of planning and executing migrations, upgrades, and downgrades on the Oracle database system, refer to Oracle9i Database Migration.

• For information about ways to enhance Oracle performance by writing and tuning SQL properly, using performance tools, and optimizing instance performance, refer to Oracle9i Database Performance Guide and Reference.

• For information on ways to improve Oracle performance by starting with good application design and using statistics to monitor application performance, refer to Oracle9i Database Performance Methods.

• For information on how to use the Oracle9i utilities for data transfer, data maintenance, and database administration, refer to Oracle9i Database Utilities.

• For a basic conceptual overview of Oracle backup and recovery, refer to Oracle9i Backup and Recovery Concepts.

• For conceptual and task-oriented information you need to perform backup and recovery procedures using the Recovery Manager utility, refer to Oracle9i Recovery Manager Reference and Oracle9i Recovery Manager User's Guide.

• For information about the Oracle networking system, refer to your network-specific documentation.

Conventions

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 there is 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 application_name. Substitute an appropriate value.

• | denotes alternative choices

• {param1 | param2 | ... } signifies that one of the parameters in {} must be used. Do not type the brackets.

• [ ] identifies optional parameters. Do not type the brackets.

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