5 Perform General Administration

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center includes several administrative tools for viewing and fine-tuning the product's features. This chapter discusses these tools.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Introduction to General Administration

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides you with a variety of tools for understanding and managing your data center.

You can view services and logs, add an alias to ensure that a product is recognized, add and edit authentications for external sites, and edit the energy cost used to calculate the power cost of assets.

Some of the procedures described in this section use the ecadm and proxyadm commands. See Command Line Administration for more information about these commands.

  • On Oracle Solaris systems, these commands are in the /opt/SUNWxvmoc/bin/ directory.

  • On Linux systems, these commands are in the /opt/sun/xvmoc/bin/ directory.

Roles for General Administration

You require specific roles to perform general administration tasks in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

The following table lists the tasks and the role required to complete the task. Contact your administrator if you do not have the necessary role or privilege to complete a task.

Table 5-1 General Administration Tasks and Roles

Task Role

View Service Status

Ops Center Admin

View Logs

Ops Center Admin

Add a Product Alias

Ops Center Admin

Add or Edit Authentications

Ops Center Admin

Edit the Energy Cost

Ops Center Admin

Actions for General Administration

You can perform various general administration operations using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, you can perform the following tasks:

  • View service status

  • View logs

  • Add a product alias

  • Add and edit authentications

  • Edit the energy cost

Location of General Administration Information in the User Interface

In the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center user interface, you can find general administration information in different locations.

Table 5-2 Location of General Administration Information in the UI

To See Location

View Service Status

Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Summary tab.

View Logs

Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select the Logs tab.

Adding a Product Alias

Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Add Product Alias in the Actions pane.

Add or Edit Authentications

Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Edit Authentications in the Actions pane.

Edit the Energy Cost

Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Edit Energy Cost in the Actions pane.

Viewing and Understanding Service Statuses

The status of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center services is monitored and displayed in the UI.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center relies on the services listed in Table 5-3. The Fault Management Resource Identifier (FMRI) for each service can be used with SMF commands.

Do not directly enable or disable these services unless directed to do so by Oracle Support. Use the ecadm, proxyadm, and agentadm commands to manage the services.

Table 5-3 shows the names, FRMI identifiers, and normal statuses of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center services.

Table 5-3 Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Services

Service Name FMRI Normal Status

Cacao

common-agent-container-1:scn-proxy

Enabled

Cacao

common-agent-container-1:oem-ec

Enabled

Enterprise Controller - Down

ec-server-splashpage:default

Disabled unless Enterprise Controller is down

Ops Center AxajTerm Serial Console

ajaxterm:default

Enabled

SCN Infrastructure Database

db:default

Enabled

SCN Infrastructure Database

db:local

Enabled if the software is using an embedded database

SCN Infrastructure Database

db:remote

Enabled if the software is using a remote database

SCN Oracle (local) database

oracle:default

Enabled

SCN Oracle (local) database listener

oralistener:default

Enabled

SCN Satellite Console

console:default

Enabled

Update Connection Enterprise - Agent

update-agent:default

Enabled if the local Agent Controller is configured

Update Connection Enterprise - Scheduler

uce-scheduler:default

Enabled

Update Connection Enterprise - Server

uce-server:default

Enabled

dhcpd

dhcpd:default

Enabled

Viewing Service Status

You can view the status of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center services.

Follow this procedure to view the service status.

  1. Click the Enterprise Controller in the Administration section of the Navigation pane.
  2. Click the Summary tab.

    The status of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center services is displayed.

Viewing Logs

You can view logs to diagnose problems or examine Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center activities.

The following is the list of different logs which you can view:

  • Cacao log: It provides logs for the agent running Enterprise Controller, Proxy Controller, Agent Controller, and Virtual Controller. It also provides the job execution startup error messages.

  • UI log: It is the main log for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and provides log dedicated to the user interface to troubleshoot the user interface issues.

  • Proxy log: It is a cacao log for the Proxy Controller and reports the operations invoked by the Proxy Controllers.

  • Update error log: It provides reports on server.cgi downloads, authentications, daemon startups, and database connection issues.

  • Update channel download log: It provides a specific download log for each channel. It reports the specific download job procedures.

  • Update channel error log: It provides a specific error log for each channel. It reports authentications and network protocol connections.

This procedure describes the steps to view the logs.

  1. Click the Enterprise Controller in the Administration section of the Navigation pane.
  2. Click the Logs tab.
  3. Select a log from the drop-down list.

    • Cacao log

    • UI log

    • Proxy log

    • Update error log

    • Update channel download log

    • Update channel error log

    The log is displayed.

  4. (Optional) Click Refresh Log File to refresh the displayed version of the log file.

Adding a Product Alias

In some cases, an asset's type is not recognized. You can add a product alias to ensure that Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center recognizes an asset and that all of its features are available.

To add a product alias, perform the following steps:

Note:

Use this feature as directed by Oracle Support.

  1. Click the Enterprise Controller in the Administration section of the Navigation pane.
  2. Click Add Product Alias in the Actions pane. The Add Product Alias page is displayed.
  3. Enter the Product Alias information.

    • Product Alias: This is the existing asset name.

    • Product ID: This is the full product ID number. If a Product Label is supplied, the Product ID is optional.

    • Product Label: This is the original factory label for the asset. If a Product ID is supplied, the product Label is optional.

  4. Click Add Product Alias to add the product alias to the Enterprise Controller.

Adding or Editing Authentications

Authentications, such as My Oracle Support (MOS) or other credentials, are used to download content such as updates from Oracle or third-party sites. MOS credentials are also used to create service requests. You can add or edit authentications to access additional external resources.

If you have not configured Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) with a set of MOS credentials, OCM uses the MOS credentials supplied to Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center to configure itself. After OCM has configured itself using a valid set of authenticated credentials, it does not use any other MOS credentials.

If OCM is already configured, no attempt is made to reconfigure it with new credentials.

Note:

You must register the Enterprise Controller before adding My Oracle Support credentials.

  1. Click the Enterprise Controller in the Administration section of the Navigation pane.
  2. Click Edit Authentications in the Actions pane.

    The Edit Authentications window is displayed.

  3. Add or edit one or more sets of authentications.

    • To edit an online account, click the description, user name, or password field and enter the new information.

    • To add a MOS user, click the Add MOS User icon.

    • To edit a MOS user, click the description, user name, or password field and enter the new information.

    • To remove a MOS user, select the user and click the Remove MOS User icon.

    • To set a MOS user as default, select the user and click the Set as Default MOS User icon.

  4. Click Apply.

    A job is launched to update the authentications.

Editing the Energy Cost

One of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center capabilities is monitoring power utilization for a server or among groups of servers or virtualization hosts.

You can also monitor the cost of power utilization by supplying the cost per currency unit. This information is displayed in the Summary or Energy tab.

  1. Expand Administration in the Navigation pane.
  2. Click Edit Energy Cost in the Actions pane.

    The Energy Cost Settings window is displayed.

  3. Enter your location's cost for each kilowatt-hour.
  4. Enter your business's currency unit.
  5. Click Submit.

    The energy cost is updated.

Related Resources for General Administration

You can view the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center documents for additional information.

For more information, see these Oracle resources: