Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Part I Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware

1 Introduction to Middleware Management

• 1.1 Middleware Management with Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• 1.2 Fusion Middleware Control Versus Cloud Control
  • 1.2.1 Managing Fusion Middleware with Fusion Middleware Control
  • 1.2.2 Key Oracle Fusion Middleware Management Features

2 Discovering Middleware Targets

• 2.1 Enabling Automatic Discovery of Fusion Middleware Targets
• 2.2 Discovering Targets Manually
  • 2.2.1 Discovering a WebLogic 9.x or 10.x Domain Using Cloud Control
  • 2.2.2 Discovering Multiple WebLogic Domains Using EM CLI
• 2.3 Discovering New or Modified Domain Members
  • 2.3.1 Enabling Automatic Discovery of New Domain Members
  • 2.3.2 Manually Checking for New or Modified Domain Members
  • 2.3.3 Removing Targets

3 Managing Middleware Targets

• 3.1 Middleware Targets in Enterprise Manager
  • 3.1.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware Components
  • 3.1.2 Oracle Application Server Components
  • 3.1.3 Non-Oracle Middleware Components
• 3.2 Monitoring Middleware Targets
  • 3.2.1 Target Home Page
  • 3.2.2 Out-of-box Metrics
  • 3.2.3 Analyzing Historical Performance
  • 3.2.4 Setting Metric Thresholds for Alert Notifications
  • 3.2.5 Monitoring Templates
  • 3.2.6 Managing and Creating Blackouts
  • 3.2.7 Extend Monitoring for Applications Deployed to WebLogic Server
  • 3.2.8 Request Monitoring
    • 3.2.8.1 Defining and Managing Transactions Being Monitored
• 3.3 Diagnosing Performance Problems
  • 3.3.1 Using Home Pages to Diagnose Performance Issues
  • 3.3.2 Middleware Diagnostics Advisor
  • 3.3.3 Diagnostics Snapshots
• 3.4 Administering Middleware Targets
  • 3.4.1 Process Control
• 3.5 Lifecycle Management
  • 3.5.1 Managing Configurations
  • 3.5.2 Compliance Management
  • 3.5.3 Patch Management
  • 3.5.4 Provisioning
    • 3.5.4.1 Cloning from Test to Production Environments
    • 3.5.4.2 Scaling Out Domains
    • 3.5.4.3 Deploying / Undeploying Java EE Applications
• 3.6 Managing Service Levels
  • 3.6.1 Service Dashboard
• 3.7 Job System
  • 3.7.1 Log File Rotation
  • 3.7.2 Log File Viewer
• 3.8 Topology Viewer
• 3.9 Support Workbench

4 Testing Application Load and Performance

• 4.1 Introduction to Application Replay
• 4.2 Testing Against Real-World Application Workloads
• 4.3 Capturing Application Workload Using RUEI
• 4.4 Synchronized vs. Non-Synchronized Replay
• 4.5 Prerequisites and Considerations
  • 4.5.1 Using RUEI to Capture Application Workloads
  • 4.5.2 Configuring Required User Privileges in Enterprise Manager
  • 4.5.3 Using Synchronization
  • 4.5.4 Setting up the Test System Database
  • 4.5.5 Restarting the Database and Application Stack
  • 4.5.6 Setting up the Capture Directory
• 4.6 Understanding the Capture and Replay Process
• 4.7 Creating Application Workload Captures
• 4.8 Monitoring the Capture Process
• 4.9 Replaying Application Workload Captures
  • 4.9.1 Preparing to Replay Workload Captures
  • 4.9.2 Understanding Replays and Replay Tasks
  • 4.9.3 Resolving References to External Systems
  • 4.9.4 Remapping URLs
  • 4.9.5 Substituting Sensitive Data
  • 4.9.6 Replaying Workload Captures
  • 4.9.7 Analyzing Replay Results
• 4.10 Troubleshooting

5 Monitoring Business Applications

• 5.1 The Oracle Approach to the APM Challenge
• 5.2 Introduction to Business Applications
  • 5.2.1 MyBank: An Example Business Application
• 5.3 Prerequisites and Considerations
  • 5.3.1 Using RUEI to Monitor Business Applications
  • 5.3.2 Using BTM to Monitor Business Applications
• 5.4 Registering RUEI/BTM Systems
• 5.5 Creating Business Applications
• 5.6 Monitoring Business Applications
• 5.7 Monitoring RUEI Components
  • 5.7.1 RUEI - Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Region
  • 5.7.2 RUEI - Top User and Application Violations Region
  • 5.7.3 RUEI - Top Executed User Requests Region
  • 5.7.4 RUEI - Top Users Region
  • 5.7.5 Real User Session Diagnostics
• 5.8 Working with the RUEI Session Diagnostics Facility
  • 5.8.1 Getting Started
  • 5.8.2 Customizing Session Diagnostics Reporting
  • 5.8.3 Exporting Full Session Information
  • 5.8.4 Exporting Session Pages to Microsoft Excel
• 5.9 Monitoring KPI and SLA Alert Reporting
• 5.10 Monitoring BTM Transactions
• 5.11 Working Within Business Transaction Manager
  • 5.11.1 Summary Information
  • 5.11.2 Analyzing Transaction Information
  • 5.11.3 Viewing Alerts
  • 5.11.4 Viewing Transaction Instances
  • 5.11.5 Viewing Message Logs
  • 5.11.6 Viewing Service Level Agreement Compliance
  • 5.11.7 Viewing Policies Applied to Transactions
  • 5.11.8 Viewing Transaction Profile Information
  • 5.11.9 Viewing Transaction Conditions
  • 5.11.10 Viewing Transaction Properties

Part II Monitoring Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

6 Monitoring Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

• 6.1 Prerequisites to Discovering Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
  • 6.1.1 Importing Ops Center Certificate to the Oracle Management Agent Keystore
  • 6.1.2 Critical Prerequisites For Oracle VM Manager Discovery
  • 6.1.3 ZFS Plug-in and Oracle VM Manager Registration Preconfiguration Steps
• 6.2 Using the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Discovery Wizard
• 6.3 Upgrading Exalogic System Targets to the Version 12.1.0.3 Fusion Middleware Model
• 6.4 Displaying and Using the Exalogic Elastic Cloud Dashboard
• 6.5 Refreshing the Exalogic Elastic Cloud
• 6.6 Monitoring the Hardware Components of Exalogic Elastic Cloud
• 6.7 Viewing Application Deployments in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets
• 6.8 Viewing WebLogic Domains in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets
• 6.9 Viewing Coherence Clusters in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets
• 6.10 Viewing Hosts in Exalogic Elastic Cloud Targets
• 6.11 Visualizing Relationships Between Exalogic Software and Hardware Components
• 6.12 Analyzing the Impact of Component Failures
• 6.13 Configuring Exalogic Oracle Engineered System Healthchecks

7 Oracle Traffic Director

• 7.1 Adding a Traffic Director to an Exalogic Target
• 7.2 About Traffic Director Configuration
  • 7.2.1 Using the Traffic Director Configuration Page
  • 7.2.2 Adding Traffic Director Target Configuration
    • 7.2.2.1 Finding Configurations and Instances
    • 7.2.2.2 Discovered Targets
    • 7.2.2.3 Viewing Results
• 7.3 About Traffic Director Instance
• 7.4 About Traffic Director Refresh Flow
  • 7.4.1 Adding New Targets to Newly Added Configurations
  • 7.4.2 Adding New Targets for Newly Added Instances of Configurations
  • 7.4.3 Deleting Targets of Configurations that Have Been Removed
  • 7.4.4 Deleting Targets of Instances that Have Been Removed

Part III Monitoring WebLogic Domain

8 Monitoring WebLogic Domains

• 8.1 Updating the Agent Truststore
  • 8.1.1 Importing a Demo WebLogic Server Root CA Certificate.
  • 8.1.2 Importing a Custom Root CA Certificate
• 8.2 Changing the Default AgentTrust.jks Password Using Keytool
• 8.3 Collecting JVM Performance Metrics for WebLogic Servers
  • 8.3.1 Setting the PlatformMBeanServerUsed Attribute
  • 8.3.2 Activating Platform MBeans on WebLogicServer 9.x to 10.3.2 versions

Part IV Managing Oracle SOA

9 Overview of Oracle SOA Management

10 Discovering and Monitoring Oracle BPEL Process Manager

• 10.1 Supported Versions
• 10.2 Understanding the Discovery Mechanism
• 10.3 Understanding the Discovery Process
• 10.4 Setting Up Oracle Software Library
• 10.5 Discovering BPEL Process Manager
  • 10.5.1 Deployed to Oracle Application Server
  • 10.5.2 Deployed to Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
    • 10.5.2.1 Discovering Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
    • 10.5.2.2 Deployed to Oracle WebLogic Managed Server
  • 10.5.3 Deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server
    • 10.5.3.1 Discovering IBM WebSphere Application Server
    • 10.5.3.2 Deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server
• 10.6 Configuring BPEL Process Manager
  • 10.6.1 Specifying Details for Monitoring BPEL Process Manager
  • 10.6.2 Registering BPEL Process Manager Credentials and Host Credentials
• 10.7 Troubleshooting BPEL Process Managers
  • 10.7.1 Discovery Errors on Target Details Page
  • 10.7.2 Discovery Errors on Review Page
  • 10.7.3 Discovery Errors on Review Page
  • 10.7.4 Display Errors on Processes Page
    • 10.7.4.1 No Credentials Specified for Monitoring BPEL Process Manager
  • 10.7.5 Retrieving the OPMN Port
  • 10.7.6 javax.naming.NameNotFoundException Error
  • 10.7.7 javax.naming.NamingException Error
  • 10.7.8 javax.naming.NoInitialContextException Error
  • 10.7.9 Error While Creating BPEL Infrastructure Services
  • 10.7.10 Metric Collection Errors for BPEL Process Manager Partner Link Metrics
  • 10.7.11 Agent Monitoring Metric Errors

11 Discovering and Monitoring Oracle Service Bus

• 11.1 Supported Versions
• 11.2 Understanding the Discovery Mechanism
• 11.3 Understanding the Discovery Process
• 11.4 Downloading One-Off Patches
• 11.5 Discovering Oracle Service Bus
  • 11.5.1 Discovering OSB Deployed to WLS Not Monitored by Enterprise Manager
  • 11.5.2 Discovering OSB Deployed to WLS Monitored by Enterprise Manager
• 11.6 Enabling Management Packs
• 11.7 Monitoring Oracle Service Bus in Cloud Control
  • 11.7.1 Enabling Monitoring for OSB Services
• 11.8 Generating Oracle Service Bus Reports Using BI Publisher
• 11.9 Troubleshooting Oracle Service Bus
  • 11.9.1 Required Patches Missing
  • 11.9.2 System and Service
  • 11.9.3 SOAP Test

12 Discovering and Monitoring the SOA Suite

• 12.1 New Features in This Release
• 12.2 Supported Versions
• 12.3 Understanding the Discovery Process
• 12.4 Discovering the SOA Suite
  • 12.4.1 Discovering the SOA Suite Using a Remote Agent
• 12.5 Post Discovery Steps
  • 12.5.1 Configuring Instance Tracing
  • 12.5.2 Viewing Application Dependency and Performance (ADP) Metrics
• 12.6 Setting Up and Using SOA Instance Tracing
• 12.7 Generating SOA Reports Using Information Publisher
• 12.8 Dehydration Store Monitoring
  • 12.8.1 Enabling Monitoring of the SOA Dehydration Store
  • 12.8.2 Viewing the SOA Dehydration Store Data
• 12.9 Service Topology
• 12.10 UDDI Publishing
• 12.11 Generating SOA Reports Using BI Publisher
• 12.12 Provisioning SOA Artifacts and Composites
• 12.13 Support Workbench
• 12.14 Troubleshooting
  • 12.14.1 Discovery
  • 12.14.2 Monitoring
  • 12.14.3 Instance Tracing
  • 12.14.4 Faults
  • 12.14.5 Application Dependency and Performance Integration
  • 12.14.6 Information Publisher Reports
  • 12.14.7 BI Publisher Reports
  • 12.14.8 Systems and Services
  • 12.14.9 BPEL Recovery
  • 12.14.10 SOA License Issue
  • 12.14.11 Dehydration Store Issue

Part V Managing Oracle Business Intelligence

13 Discovering and Monitoring Oracle Business Intelligence Instance and Oracle Essbase

• 13.1 Overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Targets You Can Monitor
  • 13.1.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Instance
  • 13.1.2 Oracle Essbase
• 13.2 Understanding the Monitoring Process
• 13.3 Discovering Oracle Business Intelligence Instance and Oracle Essbase Targets
  • 13.3.1 Discovering Targets of an Undiscovered WebLogic Domain
  • 13.3.2 Discovering New or Modified Targets of a Discovered WebLogic Domain
• 13.4 Monitoring Oracle Business Intelligence Instance and Essbase Targets
  • 13.4.1 Performing General Monitoring Tasks
    • 13.4.1.1 Viewing Target General and Availability Summary
    • 13.4.1.2 Viewing Target Status and Availability History
    • 13.4.1.3 Viewing Target Performance or Resource Usage
    • 13.4.1.4 Viewing Target Metrics
    • 13.4.1.5 Viewing or Editing Target Metric and Collection Settings
    • 13.4.1.6 Viewing Target Metric Collection Errors
    • 13.4.1.7 Viewing Target Health
    • 13.4.1.8 Viewing Target Alert History
    • 13.4.1.9 Viewing Target Incidents
    • 13.4.1.10 Viewing Target Logs
    • 13.4.1.11 Viewing Target Configuration and Configuration File
    • 13.4.1.12 Viewing Target Job Activity
    • 13.4.1.13 Viewing Target Compliance
  • 13.4.2 Performing Target-Specific Monitoring Tasks
    • 13.4.2.1 Viewing Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboard Reports
    • 13.4.2.2 Viewing Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler Reports
    • 13.4.2.3 Viewing Oracle Business Intelligence Instance Key Metrics
    • 13.4.2.4 Viewing Oracle Business Intelligence Essbase Applications Summary
    • 13.4.2.5 Viewing Oracle Business Intelligence Essbase Application Data Storage Details
• 13.5 Administering Oracle Business Intelligence Instance and Essbase Targets
  • 13.5.1 Performing General Administration Tasks
    • 13.5.1.1 Starting, Stopping, or Restarting the Target
    • 13.5.1.2 Administering Target Access Privileges
    • 13.5.1.3 Administering Target Blackouts
    • 13.5.1.4 Viewing Target Monitoring Configuration
  • 13.5.2 Performing Target-Specific Administration Tasks
    • 13.5.2.1 Viewing Oracle Business Intelligence Component Failovers
    • 13.5.2.2 Editing Oracle Business Intelligence Monitoring Credentials

Part VI Using JVM Diagnostics

14 Introduction to JVM Diagnostics

• 14.1 Overview
  • 14.1.1 Java Activity Monitoring and Diagnostics with Low Overhead
  • 14.1.2 In-depth Visibility of JVM Activity
  • 14.1.3 Real Time Transaction Tracing
  • 14.1.4 Cross-Tier Correlation with Oracle Databases
  • 14.1.5 Memory Leak Detection and Analysis
  • 14.1.6 JVM Pooling
  • 14.1.7 Real-time and Historical Diagnostics
• 14.2 New Features in this Release
• 14.3 Supported Platforms and JVMs
• 14.4 User Roles

15 Using JVM Diagnostics

• 15.1 Installing JVM Diagnostics
  • 15.1.1 Monitoring a Standalone JVM
• 15.2 Setting Up JVM Diagnostics
  • 15.2.1 Configuring the JVM Diagnostics Engine
  • 15.2.2 Configuring JVMs and Pools
  • 15.2.3 Register Databases
  • 15.2.4 Configuring the Heap Loader
  • 15.2.5 Viewing Registered JVMs and Managers
• 15.3 Accessing the JVM Diagnostics Pages
• 15.4 Managing JVM Pools
  • 15.4.1 Viewing the JVM Pool Home Page
  • 15.4.2 Viewing the JVM Pool Performance Diagnostics Page
  • 15.4.3 Viewing the JVM Pool Live Thread Analysis Page
  • 15.4.4 Configuring a JVM Pool
    • 15.4.4.1 Updating Pool Thresholds
  • 15.4.5 Removing a JVM Pool
  • 15.4.6 Add to Group
• 15.5 Managing JVMs
  • 15.5.1 Viewing the JVM Home Page
  • 15.5.2 Viewing the JVM Performance Diagnostics Page
  • 15.5.3 Viewing the JVM Diagnostics Performance Summary
  • 15.5.4 Viewing the JVM Live Thread Analysis Page
    • 15.5.4.1 Cross Tier Analysis
    • 15.5.4.2 JVM Diagnostics - Oracle Real Application Cluster Drill-Down
  • 15.5.5 Viewing the JVM Live Heap Analysis Page
  • 15.5.6 Working with Class Histograms
    • 15.5.6.1 Saving a Class Histogram
    • 15.5.6.2 Viewing Saved Histograms
    • 15.5.6.3 Scheduling a Histogram Job
    • 15.5.6.4 Comparing Class Histograms
    • 15.5.6.5 Deleting Class Histograms
  • 15.5.7 Managing Thread Snapshots
    • 15.5.7.1 Uploading Thread Snapshots
  • 15.5.8 Analyzing Heap Snapshots
    • 15.5.8.1 Viewing the Available Heap Snapshots
    • 15.5.8.2 Taking a Heap Snapshot
  • 15.5.9 Configuring a JVM
  • 15.5.10 Removing a JVM
  • 15.5.11 Add JVM to Group
• 15.6 Tracing Active Threads
• 15.7 Uploading Trace Diagnostics Images
• 15.8 Viewing the Available Traces
• 15.9 Analyzing Trace Diagnostic Images
• 15.10 JVM Offline Diagnostics
  • 15.10.1 Creating a Diagnostic Snapshot
  • 15.10.2 Using the Diagnostic Snapshots Page
  • 15.10.3 Analyzing a Diagnostic Snapshot
  • 15.10.4 Viewing a Diagnostic Snapshot
• 15.11 Viewing JVM Diagnostics Threshold Violations

16 Troubleshooting JVM Diagnostics

• 16.1 Cross Tier Functionality Errors
• 16.2 Trace Errors
• 16.3 Deployment Script Execution Errors
• 16.4 LoadHeap Errors
• 16.5 Heap Dump Errors on AIX 64 and AIX 32 bit for IBM JDK 1.6
• 16.6 Errors on JVM Diagnostics UI Pages
• 16.7 Frequently Asked Questions
  • 16.7.1 Location of the JVM Diagnostics Logs
  • 16.7.2 JVM Diagnostics Engine Status
  • 16.7.3 JVM Diagnostics Agent Status
  • 16.7.4 Monitoring Status
  • 16.7.5 Running the create_jvm_diagnostic_db_user.sh Script
  • 16.7.6 Usage of the Try Changing Threads Parameter
  • 16.7.7 Significance of Optimization Levels
  • 16.7.8 Custom Provisioning Agent Deployment
  • 16.7.9 Log Manager Level
  • 16.7.10 Repository Space Requirements

Part VII Managing Oracle Coherence

17 Getting Started with Management Pack for Oracle Coherence

• 17.1 About Coherence Management
• 17.2 New Features
• 17.3 Understanding the Discovery Mechanism
  • 17.3.1 Starting a JMX Management Node
    • 17.3.1.1 Starting a JMX Management Node Using Shell
    • 17.3.1.2 Starting a JMX Management Node Using WebLogic Console
  • 17.3.2 Starting Other Nodes
    • 17.3.2.1 Verifying the JMX Management Node Configuration
  • 17.3.3 Using JVM Diagnostics with Coherence
  • 17.3.4 Discovering Coherence Targets
  • 17.3.5 Corrective Actions
  • 17.3.6 Refreshing a Cluster
• 17.4 Enabling the Management Pack

18 Monitoring a Coherence Cluster

• 18.1 Cluster Level Pages
  • 18.1.1 Cluster Level Home Page
    • 18.1.1.1 General
    • 18.1.1.2 Graphs
    • 18.1.1.3 Cluster Management
    • 18.1.1.4 Services
    • 18.1.1.5 Applications
    • 18.1.1.6 Metric and Host Alerts
    • 18.1.1.7 Cluster Level Operations
  • 18.1.2 Cluster Level Node Performance Page
  • 18.1.3 Cluster Level Cache Performance Page
  • 18.1.4 Cluster Level Connection Performance Page
  • 18.1.5 Cluster Level Administration Page
• 18.2 Detailed Pages
  • 18.2.1 Node Home Page
  • 18.2.2 Cache Home Page
  • 18.2.3 Connection Manager Home Page
• 18.3 Performance Pages
  • 18.3.1 Cache Performance Details Page
  • 18.3.2 Connection Manager Performance Page
  • 18.3.3 Connection Performance Page
  • 18.3.4 Service Performance Page
  • 18.3.5 Administration Pages
• 18.4 Log File Monitoring
• 18.5 Cache Data Management
  • 18.5.1 View Explain Plan
  • 18.5.2 View Trace
• 18.6 Reap Session Support
• 18.7 Push Replication Pattern
• 18.8 Transactional Cache Support
• 18.9 Integration with JVM Diagnostics
• 18.10 Viewing Performance Summary
• 18.11 Viewing Configuration Topology
• 18.12 Troubleshooting Coherence
• 18.13 Best Practices

Part VIII Using Identity Management

19 Getting Started with Identity Management

• 19.1 Benefits of the Using Identity Management Pack
• 19.2 Features of the Identity Management Pack
  • 19.2.1 New Features for this Release
• 19.3 Monitoring Oracle Identity Management Components in Enterprise Manager

20 Prerequisites for Discovering Identity Management Targets

• 20.1 System Requirements
• 20.2 Installing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2
• 20.3 Prerequisites for Discovering Identity Management Targets in Enterprise Manager

21 Discovering and Configuring Identity Management Targets

• 21.1 Discovering Identity Management Targets
  • 21.1.1 Discovering Oracle Access Manager Access Server 10.1.4.2 and 10.1.4.3.0
  • 21.1.2 Discovering Oracle Access Manager Identity Server 10.1.4.2 and 10.1.4.3.0
  • 21.1.3 Discovering Oracle Identity Federation Server 10.1.4.2 and 10.1.4.3.0
  • 21.1.4 Discovering Oracle Identity Manager Server 9.1.0.1
  • 21.1.5 Discovering Oracle Identity Management Suite 10.1.4.2 and 10.1.4.3.0
  • 21.1.6 Discovering Identity Management 11g
  • 21.1.7 Discovering Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.x, 7.x, 11g
• 21.2 Collecting User Statistics for Oracle Internet Directory
• 21.3 Creating Identity Management Elements
  • 21.3.1 Creating Identity and Access System
  • 21.3.2 Creating Generic Service or Web Application Targets for Identity Management
  • 21.3.3 Creating a Service Dashboard Report

Part IX Discovering and Monitoring Non-Oracle Middleware

22 Discovering and Monitoring IBM WebSphere MQ

• 22.1 Introduction
• 22.2 Requirements
  • 22.2.1 About Jar File Requirements for Local Monitoring
  • 22.2.2 About Jar File Requirements for Remote Monitoring
• 22.3 Understanding Discovery
  • 22.3.1 Discovery Parameters
  • 22.3.2 Discovery Prerequisites for Local Agent
  • 22.3.3 Discovery Prerequisites for Remote Agent
  • 22.3.4 Queue Manager Cluster Discovery
  • 22.3.5 Standalone Queue Manager Discovery
• 22.4 Monitoring
• 22.5 IBM WebSphere MQ Metrics

23 Discovering and Monitoring JBoss Application Server

• 23.1 JBoss Setup
• 23.2 JBoss Startup
• 23.3 Discovery
  • 23.3.1 Understanding JBoss Local Discovery
  • 23.3.2 Understanding JBoss Remote Discovery
  • 23.3.3 Adding the JBoss Application Server
• 23.4 Monitoring JBoss JVM Metrics
• 23.5 About JVM Diagnostics
  • 23.5.1 Deploying JVMD on JBoss
• 23.6 Troubleshooting

Part X Using Application Dependency and Performance

24 Introduction to Application Dependency and Performance

• 24.1 Overview
  • 24.1.1 Managing Complex Java EE, SOA, OSB, and Portal Applications
  • 24.1.2 Delivering a Service-Oriented View Across Environments
  • 24.1.3 Avoiding Involvement from Java EE, SOA, OSB, Portal, and Application Experts
  • 24.1.4 Eliminating Repetitive Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Manual Processes
  • 24.1.5 ADP Solution
• 24.2 Architecture
  • 24.2.1 ADP Java Agents
  • 24.2.2 ADP Manager
    • 24.2.2.1 ADP Manager and High Availability
  • 24.2.3 ADP User Interface

25 Exploring Application Dependency and Performance

• 25.1 Exploring the User Interface
  • 25.1.1 Accessing ADP
  • 25.1.2 General ADP UI Elements
  • 25.1.3 Drill Down in Operational Dashboard
  • 25.1.4 Time Frame
  • 25.1.5 Display Interval
    • 25.1.5.1 Time Frame
    • 25.1.5.2 Interval Context
    • 25.1.5.3 Turning Off Time Frame Limitation
  • 25.1.6 Graphs and Data Items
  • 25.1.7 Custom Metrics
  • 25.1.8 Functional View
  • 25.1.9 Topology View
  • 25.1.10 Architecture View
    • 25.1.10.1 Accessing the Architecture View
  • 25.1.11 Metric Types
• 25.2 Exploring the Monitoring Tab
  • 25.2.1 Monitoring ADP Entities
    • 25.2.1.1 Monitoring SOA Suite 11g Performance
    • 25.2.1.2 Monitoring OSB Performance
    • 25.2.1.3 Monitoring Java EE Application Performance
    • 25.2.1.4 Monitoring ADF Application Performance
  • 25.2.2 WebLogic
    • 25.2.2.1 Monitoring WebLogic Portal Performance
    • 25.2.2.2 Adding WebLogic Domain To Be Monitored By Existing ADP Manager
    • 25.2.2.3 Removing a WebLogic Domain From Monitoring
  • 25.2.3 Oracle WebLogic Portals
    • 25.2.3.1 Desktops
    • 25.2.3.2 Portlet Drill Down
    • 25.2.3.3 Pageflow Viewer
    • 25.2.3.4 Books
    • 25.2.3.5 Pages
    • 25.2.3.6 Portlets
  • 25.2.4 Oracle BPEL Processes
    • 25.2.4.1 Delay Analysis View
    • 25.2.4.2 Metadata View
    • 25.2.4.3 Partner Links View
    • 25.2.4.4 Partner Link Type Role View
    • 25.2.4.5 Partner Link Bindings View
    • 25.2.4.6 Modeled Entities View
    • 25.2.4.7 Topology View
    • 25.2.4.8 Node Hierarchy
  • 25.2.5 Oracle ESB
    • 25.2.5.1 Service Details View
    • 25.2.5.2 Service Parent Details View
    • 25.2.5.3 Service Definition View
    • 25.2.5.4 Service Operations View
    • 25.2.5.5 Operation Routing Rules View
  • 25.2.6 Oracle WebCenter
    • 25.2.6.1 ADF Task Flows
    • 25.2.6.2 JSF Pages
    • 25.2.6.3 Portlets
    • 25.2.6.4 Monitoring WebCenter Performance
  • 25.2.7 Processes
    • 25.2.7.1 Node Hierarchy
    • 25.2.7.2 Persistent Containers
    • 25.2.7.3 Instrumentation
  • 25.2.8 Web Services
  • 25.2.9 Pageflows
  • 25.2.10 Services
    • 25.2.10.1 HTTP
    • 25.2.10.2 EJBs
    • 25.2.10.3 JDBCs
  • 25.2.11 WSRP Producers
    • 25.2.11.1 WSRP Summary
    • 25.2.11.2 WSRP Topology
    • 25.2.11.3 Display Portal Desktop
  • 25.2.12 Integration
    • 25.2.12.1 Health
    • 25.2.12.2 Performance
    • 25.2.12.3 Channels
    • 25.2.12.4 Subscribers
  • 25.2.13 Applications
    • 25.2.13.1 Services
    • 25.2.13.2 Dependencies
    • 25.2.13.3 Deployments
    • 25.2.13.4 Workshop Projects
    • 25.2.13.5 Web Applications
    • 25.2.13.6 Stateless Beans
    • 25.2.13.7 Stateful Beans
    • 25.2.13.8 Entity Beans
    • 25.2.13.9 Message Driven Beans
  • 25.2.14 Oracle WebLogic Resources
  • 25.2.15 Oracle Resources
  • 25.2.16 Custom Metrics
  • 25.2.17 Status
  • 25.2.18 Service Component Architecture (SCA)
    • 25.2.18.1 Components
• 25.3 Exploring the Configuration Tab
  • 25.3.1 Database Configuration
  • 25.3.2 Resource Configuration
  • 25.3.3 Service Level Objective Configuration
    • 25.3.3.1 Creating a New SLO
    • 25.3.3.2 Defining SLO Parameters
    • 25.3.3.3 SLO Blackout Configuration
    • 25.3.3.4 Creating and Maintaining SLO Blackouts
    • 25.3.3.5 Propagating Threshold Violation Events
  • 25.3.4 Event Integration
  • 25.3.5 Custom Metric Configuration
• 25.4 Exploring the Registration Tab
  • 25.4.1 Using RMI Configuration for Managers
  • 25.4.2 Adding a New Manager (RMI Configuration)
  • 25.4.3 Editing a Previously Configured Manager (RMI Configuration)
  • 25.4.4 Removing or Disabling a Previously Configured Manager

26 ADP Methodology

• 26.1 ADP Methodology Activities
  • 26.1.1 Mapping Business SLAs to Performance SLOs
  • 26.1.2 Specifying Target Performance Characteristics
  • 26.1.3 Improving Performance
    • 26.1.3.1 Characterizing Baseline Performance
    • 26.1.3.2 Identifying Performance Bottlenecks
    • 26.1.3.3 Removing Performance Bottlenecks
    • 26.1.3.4 Setting SLOs on Key Metrics
• 26.2 Mapping Business SLAs to Performance SLOs
• 26.3 Characterizing Baseline Performance
• 26.4 Identifying Performance Bottlenecks
  • 26.4.1 Determining System Level Performance
• 26.5 Setting SLOs on Key Metrics
• 26.6 Conclusion

27 Troubleshooting Application Dependency and Performance

• 27.1 Can I Erase the darchive Directory?
• 27.2 How Do I Undeploy the Agent?

A ADP Configuration Directories and Files

• A.1 Configuration Directories
  • A.1.1 Directory Structure
  • A.1.2 Config Directory
  • A.1.3 Deploy Directory
• A.2 Acsera.properties File
  • A.2.1 Log Files Management
  • A.2.2 Multi-Domain Monitoring Configuration
  • A.2.3 ADP RMI Port Assignment
  • A.2.4 ADP Aggregation and Data Life Time Configuration
  • A.2.5 Aggregating Incoming Metrics On the Fly
  • A.2.6 Listing Applications to Be Monitored or Excluded From Monitoring
  • A.2.7 Firewall Mitigation (for Internal RMI Ports)
  • A.2.8 SLO Dampening
• A.3 UrlMap.properties

B Support Matrix for Application Dependency and Performance

Index