| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) for Windows or UNIX Part Number B14476-03 |
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| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) for Windows or UNIX Part Number B14476-03 |
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This preface introduces the new administrative features of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1 (10.1.1). This information is mostly useful to users who have managed Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 1 (9.0.2 and 9.0.3) and Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 2 (9.0.4).
The new administrative features of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) include:
New Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console for Collaboration Suite Features
New features in Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Collaboration Suite Control include:
Topology view of the Oracle Collaboration Suite environment
A visual representation of the environment is essential for administrators to understand component relationships, such as where applications are deployed across the OracleAS Farm or OracleAS Cluster. The Oracle Collaboration Suite Control Console satisfies this requirement by providing Topology Viewer. Topology Viewer provides a graphical, real-time view of Oracle Collaboration Suite processes managed by Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN). From Topology Viewer, you can perform various tasks such as:
Viewing the status of the farm, cluster and member components
Starting, stopping or restarting processes
Monitoring performance across the Oracle Collaboration Suite environment
Drilling down to component home pages for details
See "Reviewing the Oracle Collaboration Suite Component Topology".
Support for viewing and changing Infrastructure Services for Identity Management
Using the Oracle Collaboration Suite Control, you can view, configure, and change the Infrastructure Services (Identity Management and OracleAS Metadata Repository) used by Oracle Collaboration Suite components. A wizard guides you through the steps of changing the OracleAS Metadata Repository configured for Identity Management. See Chapter 12, "Changing Infrastructure Services".
Views of all performance metrics and metric details
For each component, you can view a list of performance metrics that Oracle Collaboration Suite Control is monitoring. For each performance metric being monitored, you can drill down to view a brief history of its performance. See "Monitoring Oracle Collaboration Suite Components".
Links to administration pages for all Oracle Collaboration Suite components
From the Oracle Collaboration Suite home page, you can navigate directly to home pages for each of the Oracle Collaboration Suite components that exist in your deployment.
Complete integration of OracleAS Web Cache administration into Oracle Collaboration Suite Control
Now, you can fully manage and administer OracleAS Web Cache instances through Oracle Collaboration Suite Control, instead of using a separate tool (OracleAS Web Cache Manager). The Oracle Application Server Web Cache Administrator's Guide describes how to use Application Server Control to manage OracleAS Web Cache.
Support for querying from a database log repository
Now, the log repository feature of Oracle Collaboration Suite Control supports using a database repository, not only a file-based repository, as the log repository. However, you cannot use Oracle Collaboration Suite Control to create the database log repository; you must manually create it. See "Creating and Managing a Diagnostic Message Database Repository".
Ability to change the port values of Application Server Control framework components
Now, you can change port numbers of Enterprise Manager components, such as Application Server Control and Oracle Management Agent, by using the emctl command-line utility. See {XREF old:} Section 4.3.1, Changing Oracle Enterprise Manager Ports
Oracle Internet Directory Provisioning Console
Oracle Collaboration Suite now includes a centralized user account management and provisioning tool, which allows you to provision users for all of your Oracle Collaboration Suite applications at once. You can manage passwords, set default attributes, grant administrative privileges, bulk-load users for quick provisioning of your entire user base, and manage de-provisioning and user account deletion, all from one centralized GUI.
Oracle Database 10g and Database Control for the Oracle Collaboration Suite Database
When you install the Oracle Collaboration Suite Database, Oracle Collaboration Suite now installs a version of Oracle Database 10g to host the OracleAS Metadata Repository, Oracle Identity Management, and the Oracle Collaboration Suite application data. Oracle Database 10g includes Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control, which you can use to manage your new Oracle Collaboration Suite Database.
New Library Path Variables
The value of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable has changed, and a new environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 has been introduced with this release.
Automation of Configuration Steps to Modify Ports
You can modify port values for Oracle Collaboration Suite components. When some component port values are changed, other components can be affected by those changes. In this release, you can run a command-line program to modify various port values. This command-line program performs additional steps that are required because of the port change, such as configuring OracleAS Web Cache to use a new Oracle HTTP Server port.
New Comprehensive Backup and Recovery Tool
Now you can assure maximum protection and recovery of your Oracle Collaboration Suite deployment, by using the new Oracle Collaboration Suite Recovery Manager, a command-line tool used for backing up and recovering Oracle Collaboration Suite.
