Preface

This Preface contains these sections:

Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documentation
Conventions
Structure

Audience

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Quick Start Guide is for a super administrator to efficiently perform common day-to-day administrative tasks with Enterprise Manager. It also provides recommended best practices for configuring Grid Control to achieve these tasks.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace`	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Structure

This guide contains the following chapters and is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, "Introduction to Grid Control Quick Start Guide"

This chapter gives you a brief overview about this book and Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

Chapter 2, "Getting Started with Enterprise Manager"

This chapter contains information on how to get started with Enterprise Manager Grid Control by setting up accounts, roles, credentials, and notification schedules.

Chapter 3, "System Monitoring"

This chapter contains information on effective system monitoring with the help of alerts and notifications.

Chapter 4, "Managing Groups"

This chapter describes how you can use the group management system to combine targets into groups and manage them more effectively.

Chapter 5, "Managing Service Levels"

This chapter describes how you can monitor and manage application service levels at high standards of availability.

Chapter 6, "Job System"

This chapter describes how you can use the Job System to automate routine administrative tasks and synchronize components in your environment.

Chapter 7, "Configuration Management"

This chapter describes tools for configuration management and policy management.

Chapter 8, "Provisioning"

This chapter describes automated provisioning tools that help you dramatically reduce the time and expense to deploy new systems.

Chapter 9, "Information Publisher"

This chapter describes the powerful reporting feature of Enterprise Manager.

Chapter 10, "Extending Grid Control"

This chapter describes how Enterprise Manager Grid Control can be extended to monitor non-Oracle products by using Management Plug-ins.

Preface

Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documentation

Conventions

Structure