Introduction

Introduction to This Manual

A system administrator is involved in setting up an Oracle E-Business Suite installation, controlling access, and ensuring smooth ongoing operation. The tasks involved in these functions are described in the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Documentation Set, in these three volumes:

This Maintenance volume describes maintenance tasks for an Oracle E-Business Suite installation, as well as tasks you might perform on a frequent basis.

Managing Concurrent Processing and Concurrent Programs

This chapter explains how to manage concurrent processing, including managing concurrent managers, reviewing concurrent requests, and managing parallel concurrent processing.

Oracle Workflow Manager

Oracle Workflow Manager is a component of Oracle Applications Manager that allows system administrators to manage Oracle Workflow for multiple Oracle E-Business Suite instances.

Using Oracle Workflow Manager, administrators can control Workflow system services, such as notification mailers, agent listeners, and other service components, background engines, purging obsolete Workflow data, and cleanup of the Workflow control queue. Administrators can also monitor work item processing by viewing the distribution of all work items by status and drilling down to additional information. Additionally, they can monitor event message processing for local Business Event System agents by viewing the distribution of event messages by status as well as queue propagation schedules. With this ability to monitor work items and event messages, a system administrator can identify possible bottlenecks easily.

Monitoring an Oracle E-Business Suite System Using Oracle Applications Manager

Oracle Applications Manager allows you to monitor many components of your applications system, such as database status, system activity, forms sessions and processes, and applications usage.

In addition, the OAM console can provide information on system alerts, metrics, and logs that can help you diagnose potential problems. For example, configuration issues, overdue routine maintenance tasks, and invalid data can cause serious problems requiring either an automated response or manual intervention.

Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search

Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search is a centralized, secure search vehicle with consistent user interfaces throughout the Oracle E-Business Suite. By leveraging Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES), Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search enables a powerful keyword search on applications content in a faster, user-friendly way without compromising on the security and context sensitive information.

Technology Inventory Utility

This command-line utility generates reports that list the installed technology stack components and versions on the various nodes of a Release 12 Applications system. The reports can be generated in either HTML (the default) or text format. Separate reports are generated for the Database and application tiers.

Diagnostics and Repair

Oracle Applications Manager provides diagnostics utilities and troubleshooting wizards for your Oracle E-Business Suite system.

Patching and Maintenance

This chapter provides information on several features that help you in patching and maintenance of your applications system:

Additional features are described in the Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation Set.

User Profiles

A profile is a set of changeable options that affect the way an application looks and behaves. You can control how Oracle E-Business Suite operates by setting profile options to the values you want. This chapter provides an overview to profiles and how to set profile values.

Profile Options in Oracle Application Object Library

This appendix lists profile options in Oracle Application Object Library that the system administrator can set.

Using Predefined Alerts

Oracle Alert provides an immediate view of the critical activity in your database, and gives you flexibility to monitor your business information the way you want. This appendix provides an overview of Oracle Alert and how to use predefined alerts. For more information on Oracle Alert, see the Oracle Alert User's Guide.

Other Volumes for System Administrators

Listed below are other volumes in the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Documentation Set. In addition, refer to the Preface for additional related guides.

Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Configuration

Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Configuration describes the tasks involved in setting up and configuring Oracle E-Business Suite. These tasks may be done once upon installation, or may also be done as needed, such as setting up a printer or customizing online help files. Areas covered include:

Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Security

Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Security describes security concepts, setup tasks, and maintenance tasks done in the following areas: