9 Monitoring the Topology Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c with Oracle WebLogic Server Management Pack Enterprise Edition's capabilities include Exalogic Elastic Cloud-specific management tools to manage and monitor Oracle software deployed in physical and virtual Exalogic Elastic Cloud environments.

These monitoring capabilities expand on the existing Oracle WebLogic Server management features that span the following:

  • Application performance management

  • Configuration management

  • Service-level management and operations

The Exalogic Elastic Cloud-specific features enable administrators to:

  • Access full management capabilities with dedicated dashboards for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud targets to easily monitor overall health, availability, and performance and manage Exalogic hardware and software, including hosts, Oracle WebLogic domains, application deployments, and Coherence clusters running on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Clouds.

  • Drill down into application deployments to identify metrics and set thresholds.

  • Display alerts, status, and incidents hierarchically across the Exalogic Elastic Cloud environment and provide operations with notifications in relation to service levels and thresholds.

  • Drill down from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud dashboard and underlying menus into the detailed component and JVM-level performance metrics, configuration management, and provisioning and cloning that provide end-to-end management for operations and administrators.

  • Use the Exalogic Topology View to immediately identify cross-tier relationships between components, middle-tier platforms, and the underlying hosts and hardware that make up an Exalogic Elastic Cloud system.

  • Make use of additional Exalogic dashboard enhancements, including:

    • Integrated hardware and software schematics

    • Hardware-software topology views

    • Hardware targets monitoring (Compute, ZFA appliance, Infiniband Fabric, ILOM)

    • Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) monitoring

    • Support for virtual and non-virtual configurations

    • Monitoring of Exalogic vServer guest Virtual Machines (VMs)

    • Health checks

    • Trusted partition/Virtual Central Processing Unit (vCPU) licensing report

    • Performance and filtering optimizations

  • Manage hardware and software incidents from a single pane of glass using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control’s incident management system, including hardware alarms and alerts from Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

This chapter includes the following topics:

Parent topic: Managing an Exalogic Appliance

9.1 Accessing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Refer to this topic for information on accessing the Oracle Enterprise manager cloud control 12c.

If you already have an existing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c implementation, you can access it by navigating to the following URL. Depending upon the configuration of the implementation, the port may or may not need to be provided. See your Enterprise Manager administrator for the URL for your environment — https://hostname.domain[:port]/em.

For example:

https://exalogicem.mycompany.com:1159/em

  1. If you do not yet have an Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c implementation, see the following resources:
  2. Your ability to use the capabilities of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c to manage Exalogic Elastic Cloud is dependent upon ensuring the availability of the Enterprise Manager system.
    See the following resources for additional information:

    Note:

    To open a master note, perform the following steps:

    • Select My Oracle Support document ID, and press Ctrl + F9. The Attributes dialog opens.

    • In the Attribute Value field for the Url attribute, enter this URL:

      https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=note_id

    • Enter the Note ID or keyword in the search field at the top of the screen.

    • Click Set Value.

9.2 Discovering an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Target

To monitor and manage your Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, you must prepare the Exalogic Elastic Cloud environment for discovery and then discover the related system targets.

The preparation and discovery steps differ based upon whether your Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine is installed in a physical or virtual configuration.
  1. If your configuration is physical, follow the steps in Discovering Exalogic Machine - Physical Configuration in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Managing and Monitoring an Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine
  2. If your configuration is virtual, follow the steps in Discovering Exalogic Machine - Virtual Configuration in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Managing and Monitoring an Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine.

9.3 Using Exalogic-Specific Pages in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Refer to the topic for procedure to navigate to the Exalogic Elastic Cloud-specific pages in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c.

Once you complete the steps to prepare for and discover the Exalogic Elastic Cloud target, do the following to navigate to the Exalogic Elastic Cloud-specific pages in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c.
  1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control web interface.
    The home page is displayed.
  2. On the home page, select Targets > Systems .
    The Systems page is displayed.
  3. On the Systems page, select the target name for your Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine, such as Exalogic Enterprise Deployment. This is the target you have created in Discovering an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Target.

    The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Home page is displayed. This is the landing page for all Exalogic Elastic Cloud-specific monitoring and control operations, including configurations, application deployments, WebLogic domains, and metrics pages.

Oracle Enterprise Manager displays comprehensive metrics for Oracle Exalogic. When these metrics are displayed in tabular format, you can sort them in ascending or descending order. This feature enables you to find highest and lowest values easily.

This section contains the following topics:

9.3.1 Management and Monitor Features for Exalogic Configurations

You can select software components directly from the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu and can access hardware components by first selecting members.

From the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud home page, you can access the desired functionality, such as the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard, using the Exalogic Elastic Cloud menu, as shown in figure below.

Figure 9-1 Exalogic Elastic Cloud Menu

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Menu

The Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard is comprised of two tabs, Software tab and the Hardware tab.

The Software tab, which is shown in figure below, provides status information including alerts and key performance metrics for Exalogic Elastic Cloud targets, including for example the following, divided into regions:

  • Application Deployments

  • WebLogic Domains

  • Coherence Clusters

  • Hosts

Each region contains summary, status, related incidents, and other relevant information, and can be expanded or collapsed. There can be a large number of targets in a given region, each region can be filtered to display only the targets of interest and you can drill down to get further details.

Figure 9-2 Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard Software Tab

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard Software Tab
The Hardware tab, which is shown in figure below, provides status, incidents, a schematic diagram of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, and other information about the hardware and infrastructure of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, including a schematic diagram.

Figure 9-3 Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard Hardware Tab

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard Hardware Tab
An example of the Exalogic Schematic is shown in the figure below. The information is separated into regions, each of which can be expanded or collapsed. In the Software tab, you can drill down to get further details.

Figure 9-4 Exalogic Elastic Cloud Schematic

Exalogic Elastic Cloud Schematic
  • See Monitoring and Managing Exalogic in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Managing and Monitoring an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine for further information on the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard and for details on the following:

    • Monitoring the Hardware Components of Exalogic Elastic Cloud

    • Visualizing Relationships Between Exalogic Software and Hardware Components

    • Analyzing the Impact of Component Failures

  • See Monitoring Hosts and Applications in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Managing and Monitoring an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine for details on the following:

    • Viewing Hosts

    • Viewing Application Deployments

    • Viewing WebLogic Domains

    • Viewing Coherence Clusters

    • Creating Exalogic Reports

9.3.2 Management and Monitor Features for Exalogic Virtual Configurations

Additional monitoring and management features are available in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c for an Exalogic Elastic Cloud in a virtual configuration.

  • See Monitoring Tasks for Exalogic Virtual Configurations in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Managing and Monitoring an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine for details on the following:

    • Exalogic Control Stack Monitoring

    • Viewing and Managing Exalogic Consumption Tracking

    • Viewing Incidents and Status Changes Created for an Exalogic System in Ops Center as Incidents in Cloud Control

    • Viewing the vCPU Consumption Report

    • Viewing the Resource Consumption Trend

    • Exporting the vCPU Consumption Report

  • See Management Tasks for Exalogic Virtual Configurations in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Managing and Monitoring an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine for details on the following:

    • Configuring the Exalogic Guest Base Template

    • Creating an Exalogic Control VM

    • Configuring the Exalogic Network