Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

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

Part I Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware

1 Introduction to Middleware Management

• 1.1 Middleware Management with Enterprise Manager
• 1.2 Using Cloud Control to Manage the Fusion Middleware Environment
• 1.3 Fusion Middleware Control Versus Cloud Control
  • 1.3.1 Managing Fusion Middleware with Fusion Middleware Control
  • 1.3.2 Managing Fusion Middleware with Cloud Control

2 Discovering Middleware Targets

• 2.1 Enabling Automatic Discovery of Fusion Middleware Targets
• 2.2 Discovering Targets Manually
  • 2.2.1 Discovering a WebLogic 9.x or 10.x Domain Via Cloud Control
  • 2.2.2 Discovering Multiple WebLogic Domains Via EMCLI
• 2.3 Discovering New or Modified Domain Members
  • 2.3.1 Enabling Automatic Discovery of New Domain Members
  • 2.3.2 Manually Checking for New or Modified Domain Members

3 Monitoring Middleware Targets

• 3.1 Monitoring Middleware Targets in Enterprise Manager
  • 3.1.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware Components
  • 3.1.2 Oracle Application Server Components
  • 3.1.3 Non-Oracle Middleware Components
• 3.2 Out-of-Box Monitoring of Middleware Targets
  • 3.2.1 Target Home Page
  • 3.2.2 Out-of-box Metrics
  • 3.2.3 Analyzing Historical Performance
  • 3.2.4 Setting Metric Thresholds for Alert Notifications
  • 3.2.5 Monitoring Templates
  • 3.2.6 Managing and Creating Blackouts
  • 3.2.7 Extend Monitoring for Applications Deployed to WebLogic Server
  • 3.2.8 Request Monitoring
    • 3.2.8.1 Defining and Managing Transactions Being Monitored
• 3.3 Diagnosing Performance Problems
  • 3.3.1 Using Home Pages to Diagnose Performance Issues
• 3.4 Administering Middleware Targets
  • 3.4.1 Process Control
• 3.5 Managing Configurations
  • 3.5.1 Policy Violations
• 3.6 Managing Service Levels
• 3.7 Automating Operations
  • 3.7.1 Job System
    • 3.7.1.1 Log File Rotation
  • 3.7.2 Operations Automation
    • 3.7.2.1 Cloning from Test to Production Environments
    • 3.7.2.2 Scaling Out Domains
• 3.8 Topology Viewer
• 3.9 Support Workbench
• 3.10 Diagnostics Snapshots
• 3.11 Middleware Diagnostics Advisor

4 Application Load and Performance Testing

• 4.1 Introduction to Application Replay
• 4.2 Testing Against Real-World Application Workloads
• 4.3 Capturing Application Workload Using RUEI
• 4.4 Synchronized vs. Non-Synchronized Replay
• 4.5 Prerequisites and Considerations
  • 4.5.1 Using RUEI to Capture Application Workloads
  • 4.5.2 Configuring Required User Privileges in Enterprise Manager
  • 4.5.3 Using Synchronization
  • 4.5.4 Setting up the Test System Database
  • 4.5.5 Restarting the Database and Application Stack
  • 4.5.6 Setting up the Capture Directory
• 4.6 Understanding the Capture and Replay Process
• 4.7 Creating Application Workload Captures
• 4.8 Monitoring the Capture Process
• 4.9 Replaying Application Workload Captures
  • 4.9.1 Preparing to Replay Workload Captures
  • 4.9.2 Understanding Replays and Replay Tasks
  • 4.9.3 Resolving References to External Systems
  • 4.9.4 Remapping URLs
  • 4.9.5 Substituting Sensitive Data
  • 4.9.6 Replaying Workload Captures
  • 4.9.7 Analyzing Replay Results
• 4.10 Troubleshooting

Part II Managing Oracle SOA

5 Overview of Oracle SOA Management Pack Enterprise Edition

6 Discovering and Monitoring Oracle BPEL Process Manager

• 6.1 Supported Versions
• 6.2 Understanding the Discovery Mechanism
• 6.3 Understanding the Discovery Process
• 6.4 Setting Up Oracle Software Library
• 6.5 Discovering BPEL Process Manager
  • 6.5.1 Deployed to Oracle Application Server
  • 6.5.2 Deployed to Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
    • 6.5.2.1 Discovering Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
    • 6.5.2.2 Deployed to Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
  • 6.5.3 Deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server
    • 6.5.3.1 Discovering IBM WebSphere Application Server
    • 6.5.3.2 Deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server
• 6.6 Configuring BPEL Process Manager
  • 6.6.1 Specifying Details for Monitoring BPEL Process Manager
  • 6.6.2 Registering BPEL Process Manager Credentials and Host Credentials
• 6.7 Troubleshooting
  • 6.7.1 Discovery Errors on Target Details Page
  • 6.7.2 Discovery Errors on Review Page
  • 6.7.3 Discovery Errors on Review Page
  • 6.7.4 Display Errors on Processes Page
    • 6.7.4.1 No Credentials Specified for Monitoring BPEL Process Manager
  • 6.7.5 Retrieving the OPMN Port
  • 6.7.6 javax.naming.NameNotFoundException Error
  • 6.7.7 javax.naming.NamingException Error
  • 6.7.8 javax.naming.NoInitialContextException Error
  • 6.7.9 Error While Creating BPEL Infrastructure Services
  • 6.7.10 Metric Collection Errors for BPEL Process Manager Partner Link Metrics
  • 6.7.11 Agent Monitoring Metric Errors

7 Discovering and Monitoring Oracle Service Bus

• 7.1 Supported Versions
• 7.2 Understanding the Discovery Mechanism
• 7.3 Understanding the Discovery Process
• 7.4 Downloading One-Off Patches
• 7.5 Discovering Oracle Service Bus
  • 7.5.1 Discovering OSB Deployed to WLS Not Monitored by Enterprise Manager
  • 7.5.2 Discovering OSB Deployed to WLS Monitored by Enterprise Manager
• 7.6 Enabling Management Packs
• 7.7 Troubleshooting
  • 7.7.1 Required Patches Missing
  • 7.7.2 System and Service
  • 7.7.3 SOAP Test

8 Discovering and Monitoring the SOA Suite

• 8.1 New Features in This Release
• 8.2 Supported Versions
• 8.3 Understanding the Discovery Process
• 8.4 Discovering The SOA Suite
  • 8.4.1 Discovering the SOA Suite Using a Remote Agent
• 8.5 Post Discovery Steps
  • 8.5.1 Configuring Instance Tracing
  • 8.5.2 Viewing Application Dependency and Performance (ADP) Metrics
• 8.6 Setting Up and Using SOA Instance Tracing
• 8.7 Creating Reports
• 8.8 Dehydration Store Monitoring
  • 8.8.1 Setting Up and Viewing the Dehydration Diagnostics Data
• 8.9 Service Topology
• 8.10 UDDI Publishing
• 8.11 Provisioning SOA Artifacts and Composites
• 8.12 Troubleshooting
  • 8.12.1 Discovery
  • 8.12.2 Monitoring
  • 8.12.3 Instance Tracing
  • 8.12.4 Faults
  • 8.12.5 Application Dependency and Performance Integration
  • 8.12.6 Reports
  • 8.12.7 Systems and Services
  • 8.12.8 BPEL Recovery
  • 8.12.9 SOA License Issue

Part III Using JVM Diagnostics

9 Introduction to JVM Diagnostics

• 9.1 Overview
  • 9.1.1 Java Activity Monitoring and Diagnostics with Low Overhead
  • 9.1.2 In-depth Visibility of JVM Activity
  • 9.1.3 Real Time Transaction Tracing
  • 9.1.4 Cross-Tier Correlation with Oracle Databases
  • 9.1.5 Memory Leak Detection and Analysis
  • 9.1.6 JVM Pooling
  • 9.1.7 Real-time and Historical Diagnostics
• 9.2 New Features in this Release
• 9.3 Supported Platforms and JVMs
• 9.4 User Roles

10 Using JVM Diagnostics

• 10.1 Setting Up JVM Diagnostics
  • 10.1.1 Viewing Registered JVMs and Managers
  • 10.1.2 Configuring JVM Pools
    • 10.1.2.1 Updating Pool Thresholds
  • 10.1.3 Setting the Monitoring Status
  • 10.1.4 Downloading the JVM Diagnostics Components
  • 10.1.5 Registering the Database Target
• 10.2 Accessing the JVM Diagnostics Pages
• 10.3 Managing JVM Pools
  • 10.3.1 Viewing the JVM Pool Home Page
  • 10.3.2 Viewing the JVM Pool Performance Diagnostics Page
  • 10.3.3 Viewing the JVM Pool Live Thread Analysis Page
• 10.4 Managing JVMs
  • 10.4.1 Viewing the JVM Home Page
  • 10.4.2 Viewing the JVM Performance Diagnostics Page
  • 10.4.3 Viewing the JVM Diagnostics Performance Summary
  • 10.4.4 Viewing the JVM Live Time Thread Analysis Page
    • 10.4.4.1 Cross Tier Analysis
    • 10.4.4.2 JVM Diagnostics - RAC Drilldown
  • 10.4.5 Viewing the JVM Live Heap Analysis Page
• 10.5 Viewing the Thread Snapshots
  • 10.5.1 Uploading Thread Snapshots
• 10.6 Analyzing Heap Snapshots
  • 10.6.1 Viewing the Available Heap Snapshots
    • 10.6.1.1 Viewing Heap Usage by Roots
    • 10.6.1.2 Top 40 Objects
    • 10.6.1.3 Heap Object Information
    • 10.6.1.4 Comparing Heap Snapshots
  • 10.6.2 Taking a Heap Snapshot
    • 10.6.2.1 Taking A Heap Snapshot Only
    • 10.6.2.2 Taking a Heap Snapshot And Loading Into Repository
• 10.7 Tracing Active Threads
• 10.8 Uploading Trace Diagnostics Images
• 10.9 Viewing the Available Traces
• 10.10 Analyzing Trace Diagnostic Images
• 10.11 JVM Offline Diagnostics
  • 10.11.1 Creating a Diagnostic Snapshot
  • 10.11.2 Using the Diagnostic Snapshots Page
  • 10.11.3 Analyzing a Diagnostic Snapshot
  • 10.11.4 Viewing a Diagnostic Snapshot
• 10.12 Viewing JVM Diagnostics Threshold Violations

11 Troubleshooting JVM Diagnostics

• 11.1 Cross Tier Functionality Errors
• 11.2 Trace Errors
• 11.3 Deployment Script Execution Errors
• 11.4 LoadHeap Errors
• 11.5 Errors on JVM Diagnostics UI Pages
• 11.6 Frequently Asked Questions
  • 11.6.1 Location of the JVM Diagnostics Logs
  • 11.6.2 JVM Diagnostics Manager Status
  • 11.6.3 JVM Diagnostics Agent Status
  • 11.6.4 Monitoring Status
  • 11.6.5 Running the create_jvm_diagnostic_db_user.sh Script
  • 11.6.6 Usage of the Try Changing Threads Parameter
  • 11.6.7 Significance of Optimization Levels
  • 11.6.8 Custom Provisioning Agent Deployment
  • 11.6.9 Log Manager Level
  • 11.6.10 Repository Space Requirements

Part IV Managing Oracle Coherence

12 Getting Started With the Oracle Coherence Management Pack

• 12.1 New Features in this Release
• 12.2 Supported Versions
• 12.3 Understanding the Discovery Mechanism
  • 12.3.1 Configuring and Starting a Standalone Management Node
  • 12.3.2 Configuring and Starting a Management Node in WebLogic Server
  • 12.3.3 Starting the Coherence Management Node with Security Credentials
  • 12.3.4 Configuring and Starting a Node With the JVM Diagnostics Agent
  • 12.3.5 Discovering Coherence Targets
  • 12.3.6 Corrective Actions
  • 12.3.7 Refreshing a Cluster
• 12.4 Enabling the Management Pack

13 Monitoring a Coherence Cluster

• 13.1 Cluster Level Pages
  • 13.1.1 Cluster Level Home Page
    • 13.1.1.1 General
    • 13.1.1.2 Graphs
    • 13.1.1.3 Cluster Management
    • 13.1.1.4 Services
    • 13.1.1.5 Applications
    • 13.1.1.6 Metric and Host Alerts
    • 13.1.1.7 Cluster Level Operations
  • 13.1.2 Cluster Level Node Performance Page
  • 13.1.3 Cluster Level Cache Performance Page
  • 13.1.4 Cluster Level Connection Performance Page
  • 13.1.5 Cluster Level Administration Page
• 13.2 Detailed Pages
  • 13.2.1 Node Home Page
  • 13.2.2 Cache Home Page
  • 13.2.3 Connection Manager Home Page
• 13.3 Performance Pages
  • 13.3.1 Node Performance Page
    • 13.3.1.1 Cache Performance Details Page
  • 13.3.2 Administration Pages
    • 13.3.2.1 Compare Configurations
    • 13.3.2.2 Change Configuration
• 13.4 Cache Data Management
• 13.5 Reap Session Support
• 13.6 Push Replication Pattern
• 13.7 Transactional Cache Support
• 13.8 Integration With JVM Diagnostics
  • 13.8.1 Deploying On Standalone Coherence
  • 13.8.2 Deploying on CoherenceWeb
• 13.9 Viewing the Performance Summary
• 13.10 Viewing the Configuration Topology
• 13.11 Troubleshooting

Part V Using Application Dependency and Performance

14 Introduction to Application Dependency and Performance

• 14.1 Overview
  • 14.1.1 Managing Complex Java EE, SOA, and Portal Applications
  • 14.1.2 Delivering a Service-Oriented View Across Environments
  • 14.1.3 Avoiding Involvement from Java EE, SOA, Portal, and Application Experts
  • 14.1.4 Eliminating Repetitive Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Manual Processes
  • 14.1.5 ADP Solution
• 14.2 Architecture
  • 14.2.1 ADP Java Agents
  • 14.2.2 ADP Manager
    • 14.2.2.1 ADP Manager and High Availability
  • 14.2.3 ADP Database
  • 14.2.4 ADP User Interface

15 Exploring Application Dependency and Performance

• 15.1 Exploring the User Interface
  • 15.1.1 Accessing ADP
  • 15.1.2 General ADP UI Elements
  • 15.1.3 Drill Down in Operational Dashboard
  • 15.1.4 Time Frame
  • 15.1.5 Display Interval
    • 15.1.5.1 Time Frame
    • 15.1.5.2 Interval Context
    • 15.1.5.3 Turning Off Time Frame Limitation
  • 15.1.6 Graphs and Data Items
  • 15.1.7 Right-Click Operations on Tables and Graphs
  • 15.1.8 Comparative View
  • 15.1.9 Save as PDF
  • 15.1.10 Easy Scroller
  • 15.1.11 Zoom In and Zoom Out Toolbar
  • 15.1.12 Custom Metrics
  • 15.1.13 Functional View
  • 15.1.14 Topology View
  • 15.1.15 Architecture View
    • 15.1.15.1 Accessing the Architecture View
  • 15.1.16 Metric Types
• 15.2 Exploring the Monitoring Tab
  • 15.2.1 Monitoring ADP Entities
    • 15.2.1.1 Monitoring SOA Suite 11g Performance
    • 15.2.1.2 Monitoring OSB Performance
    • 15.2.1.3 Monitoring Java EE Application Performance
    • 15.2.1.4 Monitoring ADF Application Performance
  • 15.2.2 WebLogic
    • 15.2.2.1 Monitoring WebLogic Portal Performance
    • 15.2.2.2 Adding WebLogic Domain To Be Monitored By Existing ADP Manager
    • 15.2.2.3 Removing a WebLogic Domain From Monitoring
  • 15.2.3 Oracle WebLogic Portals
    • 15.2.3.1 Desktops
    • 15.2.3.2 Portlet Drill Down
    • 15.2.3.3 Pageflow Viewer
    • 15.2.3.4 Books
    • 15.2.3.5 Pages
    • 15.2.3.6 Portlets
  • 15.2.4 WebSphere Portals
    • 15.2.4.1 Virtual Portals
    • 15.2.4.2 Pages
    • 15.2.4.3 Portlets
  • 15.2.5 Oracle BPEL Processes
    • 15.2.5.1 Delay Analysis View
    • 15.2.5.2 Metadata View
    • 15.2.5.3 Partner Links View
    • 15.2.5.4 Partner Link Type Role View
    • 15.2.5.5 Partner Link Bindings View
    • 15.2.5.6 Modeled Entities View
    • 15.2.5.7 Topology View
    • 15.2.5.8 Node Hierarchy
  • 15.2.6 Oracle ESB
    • 15.2.6.1 Service Details View
    • 15.2.6.2 Service Parent Details View
    • 15.2.6.3 Service Definition View
    • 15.2.6.4 Service Operations View
    • 15.2.6.5 Operation Routing Rules View
  • 15.2.7 Oracle WebCenter
    • 15.2.7.1 ADF Task Flows
    • 15.2.7.2 JSF Pages
    • 15.2.7.3 Portlets
    • 15.2.7.4 Monitoring WebCenter Performance
  • 15.2.8 Processes
    • 15.2.8.1 Node Hierarchy
    • 15.2.8.2 Persistent Containers
    • 15.2.8.3 Instrumentation
  • 15.2.9 Web Services
  • 15.2.10 Pageflows
  • 15.2.11 Services
    • 15.2.11.1 HTTP
    • 15.2.11.2 EJBs
    • 15.2.11.3 JDBCs
  • 15.2.12 WSRP Producers
    • 15.2.12.1 WSRP Summary
    • 15.2.12.2 WSRP Topology
    • 15.2.12.3 Display Portal Desktop
  • 15.2.13 Integration
    • 15.2.13.1 Health
    • 15.2.13.2 Performance
    • 15.2.13.3 Channels
    • 15.2.13.4 Subscribers
  • 15.2.14 Applications
    • 15.2.14.1 Services
    • 15.2.14.2 Dependencies
    • 15.2.14.3 Deployments
    • 15.2.14.4 Workshop Projects
    • 15.2.14.5 Web Applications
    • 15.2.14.6 Stateless Beans
    • 15.2.14.7 Stateful Beans
    • 15.2.14.8 Entity Beans
    • 15.2.14.9 Message Driven Beans
  • 15.2.15 Oracle WebLogic Resources
  • 15.2.16 WebSphere Resources
  • 15.2.17 Oracle Resources
  • 15.2.18 Custom Metrics
  • 15.2.19 ADP Node
  • 15.2.20 Service Component Architecture (SCA)
    • 15.2.20.1 Components
• 15.3 Exploring the Configuration Tab
  • 15.3.1 Database Configuration
  • 15.3.2 Resource Configuration
  • 15.3.3 Service Level Objective Configuration
    • 15.3.3.1 Creating a New SLO
    • 15.3.3.2 Defining SLO Parameters
    • 15.3.3.3 SLO Blackout Configuration
    • 15.3.3.4 Creating and Maintaining SLO Blackouts
    • 15.3.3.5 Propagating Threshold Violation Events
  • 15.3.4 Action Configuration
  • 15.3.5 Custom Metric Configuration
• 15.4 Exploring the Registration Tab
  • 15.4.1 Using RMI Configuration for Managers
  • 15.4.2 Adding a New Manager (RMI Configuration)
  • 15.4.3 Editing a Previously Configured Manager (RMI Configuration)
  • 15.4.4 Removing or Disabling a Previously Configured Manager

16 Exporting Data

• 16.1 Data Export Modes
  • 16.1.1 Export to File
  • 16.1.2 Export to Database
  • 16.1.3 Aggregation Export to File
• 16.2 ADP Export Configuration
  • 16.2.1 ADP Periodic Export Configuration
  • 16.2.2 Manual Execution of Metric Export
  • 16.2.3 export.xml File
• 16.3 Example of Exported Data for WebLogic

17 ADP Methodology

• 17.1 ADP Methodology Activities
  • 17.1.1 Map Business SLAs to Performance SLOs
  • 17.1.2 Specify Target Performance Characteristics
  • 17.1.3 Performance Improvement Process
    • 17.1.3.1 Characterize Baseline Performance
    • 17.1.3.2 Identify Performance Bottlenecks
    • 17.1.3.3 Remove Performance Bottlenecks
    • 17.1.3.4 Set SLOs on Key Metrics
• 17.2 Map Business SLAs to Performance SLOs
• 17.3 Characterize Baseline Performance
• 17.4 Identify Performance Bottlenecks
  • 17.4.1 System Level Performance
• 17.5 Set SLOs on Key Metrics
• 17.6 Conclusion

18 Troubleshooting ADP

• 18.1 Can I Erase the darchive Directory?
• 18.2 How Do I Undeploy the Agent?

Part VI Appendixes

A Configuration Directories and Files

• A.1 Configuration Directories
  • A.1.1 Directory Structure
  • A.1.2 Config Directory
  • A.1.3 Deploy Directory
• A.2 Acsera.properties File
  • A.2.1 Log Files Management
  • A.2.2 Multi-Domain Monitoring Configuration
  • A.2.3 ADP RMI Port Assignment
  • A.2.4 ADP Aggregation and Data Life Time Configuration
  • A.2.5 Aggregating Incoming Metrics On the Fly
  • A.2.6 Configuring List of Applications To Be Monitored or Excluded From Monitoring
  • A.2.7 Firewall Mitigation (for Internal RMI Ports)
  • A.2.8 SLO Dampening
• A.3 UrlMap.properties

B Support Matrix for Application Dependency and Performance

• B.1 ADP Manager Platform Support

Index