1 Introduction to Managing Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1

Part I of this manual provides information about the steps required to set up Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control release 10.1.0.4 to monitor Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.1.0.4 supports the following Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1 components:

Mail
Calendar
Real-Time Collaboration
Collaboration Suite Search
Identity Management
Voicemail & Fax
Ultra Search

Grid Control 10.1.0.4 does not support the Content Services component for Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Benefits of Managing Oracle Collaboration Suite with Grid Control
Grid Control Installation
Monitoring Oracle Collaboration Suite with Web Applications

Note:

For information on configuring Grid Control 10.1.0.4 to monitor Oracle Collaboration Suite Release 1 and Release 2 targets, see the chapters in Part II of this manual.

1.1 Benefits of Managing Oracle Collaboration Suite with Grid Control

When you configure Grid Control 10.1.0.4 to manage Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1, Enterprise Manager provides the following benefits:

An Enterprise Manager home page for each Oracle Collaboration Suite target that you manage.

From the home page, you can monitor the performance of the component and drill down to analyze specific performance metrics.
A set of charts and performance metrics for each Oracle Collaboration Suite component.

Descriptions of each metric are available from the All Metrics link on each component home page, or by browsing the Target Metrics category in the online help table of contents.
The ability to manage your Oracle Collaboration Suite components as part of your larger computing environment.

For example, from the same Grid Control Console, you can monitor your Oracle Collaboration Suite components, as well as your application server and database targets.
Oracle Collaboration Suite group home pages that allow you to monitor all the various subcomponents of an Oracle Collaboration Suite component from one set of monitoring pages.

1.2 Grid Control Installation

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.1.0.4 is the current production release of the Grid Control. Grid Control 10.1.0.4 refers to the current patch set release of Grid Control. To install Grid Control 10.1.0.4, you need to install Grid Control release 10.1.0.3 (the current full production installation) and then apply the Grid Control 10.1.0.4 patch set.

You will also need to install and run the Grid Control 10.1.0.4 Management Agent on each host you plan to monitor. For example, you will install and run the Grid Control 10.1.0.4 Management Agent on each Collaboration Suite host.

Refer to Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Installation and Basic Configuration and the Enterprise Manager documentation set for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 1 at the following URL for more information:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html

1.3 Monitoring Oracle Collaboration Suite with Web Applications

You can use Grid Control to create Web application targets for some Oracle Collaboration Suite components. Different types of targets such as hosts, databases, application servers, HTTP servers, and Collaboration Suite components can be combined to form a Web application target. Then from the Web Application home page you can get a high level overview of the Web application. You can view a list of the Web application components to see how they are performing, and you can drill down to the individual Home Pages for each component.

You can use Application Service Level Management transactions to monitor a Web application target for availability and performance from an end-user perspective. You can also use End-User Page Performance Monitoring to measure the response time of pages in your Web applications.

Create a Collaboration Suite user to be used solely for monitoring using Web Applications. The Web applications created for Oracle Collaboration Suite components in this manual are fairly basic. You can add additional transactions to your Web application to enhance management of your Oracle Collaboration Suite components.