Contents

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Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Structure
• Related Documents
• Updated Terminology
• Conventions

1 New Features In Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1

• New Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1
  • Database Management
    • Performance Diagnostics
    • SQL Tuning
    • Real Application Clusters
    • High Availability
    • Oracle Clusterware
    • Oracle Grid Infrastructure
    • Data Masking Enhancements
    • Change Management Enhancements
    • Real Application Testing Enhancements
  • Middleware Management
  • My Oracle Support Integration
  • Lifecycle Management and Provisioning
    • Oracle Fusion Middleware Domain Provisioning
    • Oracle Fusion Middleware Domain Scale Up
  • Application Performance Management
  • Server Management
  • Enterprise Manager Grid Control Framework

2 Introduction

• Quality of Service: Bridging the Business with IT Infrastructure
• Enhanced Application Management and Monitoring
  • Application Dependency and Performance
  • Real User Experience Insight
  • Business Transaction Management
  • Java Diagnostics
  • E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft And Siebel Management And Monitoring
• Lowering Management Costs Through the Grid
  • Knowing What You Have and What You Are Running
  • Certified Configurations: Bringing Harmony to an Ever-Changing Data Center
  • Error-Free Automated Provisioning: Linux, Oracle RAC, Certified Images, Patches, Upgrades
  • Patch Management
• Management for the Complete Oracle Grid Environment
  • Extensions and Management Plug-ins
  • Oracle Integrated Management Partnerships
• Conclusion

3 Overview of Enterprise Manager Grid Control

• Overview
• Enterprise Manager Architecture
• Key Features
  • System Monitoring
  • Managing Groups
  • Job System
  • Information Publisher
  • Compliance Management
  • Extending Enterprise Manager
  • Managing Targets

4 Enterprise Configuration Management

• Hardware and Software Configurations
  • Collected Configurations
  • Viewing Configurations
  • Comparing Configurations
  • The Enterprise Configuration
    • Viewing the Enterprise Configuration
    • Searching the Enterprise Configuration
    • Viewing the Enterprise Configuration History
  • Client Configurations
    • Client System Analyzer in Grid Control
    • Client System Analyzer Deployed Independently
• Accessing Configuration Pages in Grid Control
• Configuration Change Console
• Application Change Console

5 Host and Third-Party Target Management

• Host Management
  • Monitoring Hosts
    • Host Home Page
    • Host Performance Page
    • Host Configuration Page
    • Operating System Details
    • Hardware Details
    • Log File Monitoring
    • Program Resource Utilization Monitoring
    • File and Directory Monitoring
    • Hardware Monitoring for Dell PowerEdge Systems
  • Storage Resource Tracking
  • Host Administration
    • Linux Host Administration
    • Execute Host Command
    • Job System
    • Remote File Editor
    • Managing Host Deployments
• Third-Party Target Management
  • Support for Third-Party Application Servers
  • Support for Third-Party Plug-Ins
  • Network Appliance Filer
  • F5 Load Balancer Switches

6 Database Management

• Introduction to Database Management
  • Database Control Versus Grid Control
  • Database Home Page as the Management Hub
• Monitoring Databases
  • Assessing Database Performance
  • Diagnosing Problems Interactively
    • Investigating a Wait Class
    • Viewing Top Activity
    • Monitoring Real-time SQL
  • Diagnosing Problems Automatically
  • Using Additional Diagnostic Pages
    • Top Consumers
    • Instance Activity
    • Historical SQL
  • Using Other Performance Tools
    • Topology Viewer
    • AWR Baselines
    • Memory Access Mode
    • Hang Analysis
• Administering Databases
  • Managing Storage Objects
  • Using Database Configuration Features
  • Using Automatic Storage Management
  • Converting Single Instances to Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Converting to a Locally-Managed Tablespace
  • Controlling Resources with Resource Manager
  • Tracking Statistics to Improve Database Performance
  • Using Oracle Scheduler
  • Working With Database Schemas
  • Managing Database Objects
  • XML Database Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • Managing Users and Privileges
  • Managing Materialized Views
  • About Change Management
  • Using Advisors in Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Managing Database Security
  • Managing Users, Roles, Profiles, and Audit Settings
  • Transparent Data Encryption
  • Oracle Label Security (OLS)
  • Virtual Private Database (VPD)
  • Application Contexts
  • Enterprise User Security
  • Oracle Database Vault
• Masking Sensitive Data for Non-production Use
  • Security and Regulatory Compliance
  • Roles of Data Masking Users
  • Format Libraries and Masking Definitions
  • Recommended Data Masking Workflow
  • Data Masking Task Sequence
  • Defining New Masking Formats
  • Using Oracle-supplied Predefined Masking Formats
    • Patterns of Format Definitions
    • Category Definitions
    • Installing the DM_FMTLIB Package
  • Agent Compatibility for Data Masking
  • Supported Data Types
  • Creating a Masking Definition
  • Adding Dependent Columns
  • Cloning the Production Database
  • Using Reorganize Objects with LONG Columns
  • Using Data Masking with LONG Columns
  • Deterministic Masking
  • Use Cases
  • Related Oracle Security Offerings
• Maintaining Databases
  • Using Backup
  • Recovery
  • Flashback Recovery
  • Backup and Recovery Settings
  • Managing Restore Points
  • Overview of Data Guard
• Additional Maintenance Features
  • Exporting and Importing Features
  • Cloning Databases
  • Transporting Tablespaces
  • Overview of Oracle Streams
  • Working with Software Configurations
  • Using Database Software Patching
• Monitoring Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Cluster Cache Coherency
  • Cluster Interconnects
  • Cluster-Managed Database Services
  • Policy-managed and Administrator-managed Databases
  • Oracle Clusterware and High Availability
  • Database High Availability

7 Change Management for Databases

• Overview of Change Management for Databases
• Dictionary Baselines
  • Scope Specification
  • Capturing a Dictionary Baseline Version
  • Working With A Dictionary Baseline Version
  • Working With Multiple Dictionary Baseline Versions
  • Exporting and Importing Dictionary Baselines
    • Creating Directory Objects for Export and Import
• Dictionary Comparisons
  • Defining Dictionary Comparisons
  • Working with Dictionary Comparison Versions
• Dictionary Synchronizations
  • Defining Dictionary Synchronizations
  • Creating a Synchronization Definition from a Comparison
  • Working with Dictionary Synchronization Versions
    • The Dictionary Synchronization Cycle
  • Creating Additional Synchronization Versions

8 Service Management

• Introduction to Services
  • Defining Services in Enterprise Manager
• Modeling Services
  • Availability
  • Performance and Usage
  • Business Metrics
  • Setting Service-Level Rules
  • Monitoring Templates for Services
• Managing Systems
  • Creating Systems
  • Monitoring Systems
• Monitoring Services
  • Services Dashboard
  • System Topology
  • Service Topology
  • Reports
  • Notifications, Alerts, and Baselines
  • Service Performance
  • Monitoring Web Application Services
    • Transactions
    • End-User Performance Monitoring
  • Monitoring Forms Applications
    • Forms Transactions
    • End-User Performance Monitoring
• Diagnosing Service Problems
  • Root Cause Analysis

9 Middleware Management

• Introduction to Middleware Management
• Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to Manage the Oracle Fusion Middleware Environment
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Control versus Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control
  • Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware with Fusion Middleware Control
  • Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control
• Adding Middleware Targets to Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Components
  • Oracle Application Server Components
  • Non-Oracle Middleware Components
• Out-of-Box Monitoring of Middleware Targets
  • Target Home Page
  • Out-of-box Metrics
  • Analyzing Historical Performance
  • Setting Metric Thresholds for Alert Notifications
  • Monitoring Templates
  • Managing and Creating Blackouts
  • Extend Monitoring for Applications Deployed to WebLogic Server
  • Request Monitoring
    • Defining and Managing Transactions Being Monitored
• Diagnosing Performance Problems
  • Using Home Pages to Diagnose Performance Issues
  • Using Application Dependency and Performance to Monitor Middleware Targets
    • Using Application Dependency and Performance
  • Using Java Diagnostics to Identify and Troubleshoot Performance Issues
    • Using Java Diagnostics in Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Administering Middleware Targets
  • Process Control
  • Creating WebLogic Domain Groups
• Managing Configurations
  • Policy Violations
• Managing Service Levels
• Automating Operations
  • Job System
    • Log File Rotation
  • Operations Automation
    • Cloning from Test to Production Environments
    • Scaling Out Domains

10 Identity Management

• About Access and Identity Management
• Using Grid Control for Monitoring Identity Management Targets
  • Identity Component Server Home Page
• Identity Management Systems
  • Configuring Identity Management Services
  • Monitoring Services
• Identity Management Root Cause Analysis
• Automated Identity Management Monitoring and Alerts
• Diagnosing Identity Management Performance and Availability Problems
• Leveraging the Grid Control Management Framework

11 Oracle Beehive Management

• About Oracle Beehive
• Using Grid Control for Monitoring Oracle Beehive Targets
• Discovering Oracle Beehive Sites
  • Oracle Beehive Site Home Page
  • Rediscovering an Oracle Beehive Site
  • Editing Availability Definition
  • About Metrics Analysis Report
• Oracle Beehive System and Services
  • Creating and Resynchronizing Systems and Services
• Automated Oracle Beehive Monitoring and Alerts

12 Lifecycle Management

• Lifecycle Management Overview
  • Advantages of Using Provisioning and Patching Features
  • Wide Coverage Across the Stack
• Server Provisioning
• Customization
• Provisioning Concepts
  • Components
  • Directives
  • Images
  • Software Library
• Using the Provisioning Features
  • Setting up and configuring the environment
  • Creating Components, Directives, and Images
• Patching
  • My Oracle Support Integration
  • Patching Through Deployment Procedures
  • Patching Features
  • Patch Recommendations
    • Applying Patch Recommendations in Offline Mode
    • Accessing Patch Recommendation Pages in Enterprise Manager Grid Control
  • Application Server Patching
  • Linux Host Patching
    • Enhanced Linux Patching for ULN
    • Patching Features
  • Operating Systems Patching
  • Accessing Patching Pages in Grid Control

13 Virtualization Management

• Introduction to Virtualization Management
  • Virtualization Concepts
  • Supported Releases
  • Virtualization Central Page as the Management Hub
• Getting Started With Virtualization Management
  • Creating Virtual Server Pool
  • Registering Virtual Servers
• Provisioning Guest Virtual Machines
  • Creating Guest Virtual Machines
• Bare Metal Provisioning of Oracle VM Servers
• Monitoring Oracle VM
  • Oracle VM Server Home Page
  • Guest VM Home Page
• Administering Oracle VM
  • Editing Guest VM
• Migrating from Oracle VM Manager to Enterprise Manager

A Oracle Beehive Service Dashboard Metrics

• Oracle Beehive Metrics

Glossary

Index