1 Introduction to Grid Control Quick Start Guide

A super administrator for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is responsible for its overall efficient operation and proper maintenance.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• Scope of This Guide

• About Enterprise Manager

1.1 Scope of This Guide

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Quick Start Guide is task-oriented and teaches you how to perform common day-to-day administrative tasks. The guide has been written with the assumption that Oracle Enterprise Manager has already been installed and configured to some extent. The goal of this guide is to give you adequate information to help you understand the concepts behind Oracle Enterprise Manager. The primary administrative interface used in this guide is Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control featuring all the self-management capabilities of the Oracle Enterprise Manager.

This guide is not an exhaustive discussion of all Oracle Enterprise Manager concepts. For this type of information, refer to Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts. Additionally, for a complete discussion of tasks, refer to Oracle Enterprise Manager online help.

For information about database administration, see Oracle Database Administrator's Guide.

For information about application server administration, see Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide.

For information about Collaboration Suite administration, see Oracle Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide.

1.1.1 How to Use This Guide with Related Material

This guide is part of a comprehensive set of learning material to help you use Oracle Enterprise Manager. The learning material also includes an Oracle By Example (OBE) series, available on the Web, and an Oracle University instructor-led class.

Most chapters in Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Quick Start Guide have an associated Oracle By Example lesson. The OBE helps you go through all tasks in the chapter with the help of annotated screen shots. In some cases, the OBE provides additional information to help you complete the task at hand.

The Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Release 2) OBE series is listed at http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe10gEMR2/quick_start/index.html

In addition, Oracle University provides a related instructor-led training (ILT) course called Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2. You can locate this course by going to http://education.oracle.com and specifying the course number D17244GC20.

1.2 About Enterprise Manager

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, an industry-leading family of management products, is the solution customers need to manage their Oracle environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control) delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control is a single, integrated solution for managing all aspects of the Oracle Grid and the applications running on it. Grid Control couples a potent, top-down monitoring approach to delivering the highest quality of service for applications with a cost-effective, automated configuration management, provisioning, and administration solution. This powerful combination provides unequaled management for enterprise environments of any size.