Introduction

Oracle WebLogic Operations Control (WLOC) is a management environment that can increase the efficiency of your operations center by hiding the complexity of the underlying operational environment and presenting the resources and Java applications in a simple supply-and-demand mode.

On the supply side of the equation, you use WLOC to organize the computing resources in your operations center into collections (pools) of resources. A WLOC resource pool can represent a single physical machine or a collection of virtualized resources that are made available through hypervisor software.

On the demand side of the equation, you use WLOC to organize Java applications (processes) into WLOC services. Typically, you organize a group of related processes into a single service and manage the group as a unit, but you can also create one service for each process.

A typical WLOC deployment contains a single WLOC Controller—the centralized component that gathers data about the operating environment—and multiple Agents that manage and monitor resources and communicate that information back to the Controller. A Plain Agent manages the computing resources for the physical machine on which the Agent is installed. The Controller hosts the WLOC Administration Console that enables you to visually configure, manage, and monitor the WLOC environment.

This document provides a basic use-case example for WLOC. In this use case we will describe the steps to:

Establish a resource environment by installing and creating a Plain Agent and Controller.
Establish the runtime environment by starting the Agent, Controller, and the WLOC Administration Console.
Use the Administration Console to define a service to be managed.
Deploy the service against the available resources.
Monitor the WLOC service and the resource environment with the WLOC Administration Console.

Main Steps

Table 1-1 Use Case Example Main Steps
To complete this task . . .	We demonstrate how to perform the following steps . . .
Establish the WLOC resource environment	Step 1: Install WLOC Step 2: Create the Plain Agent Step 3: Create the Controller
Establish the WLOC runtime environment	Step 1: Start the Plain Agent Step 2: Start the Controller Step 3: Start the WLOC Administration Console
Define services under management	Step 1: Create the Service and Process Groups Step 2: Define the Adaptive Runtime Policies
Deploy services against available resources	Deployment Scenario Deploy the Service
Monitor WLOC services and resource environment with the WLOC Administration Console	Create a View Browse the Resources Pane

Plain Agent Use Case Example

Introduction

Main Steps

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