By monitoring a target using Enterprise Manager, you obtain a complete and up to date overview of the status, availability, performance, and health of the target. Enterprise Manager displays complex target performance data in a simple form, using graphs and pie charts. It also keeps you informed about target metrics crossing their threshold levels, target alerts, and target incidents that require user action.
Using the Exalytics Machine console, you can do the following tasks:
To view the Exalytics Machine homepage, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
The Exalytics Machine home page displays the summary of the functioning of the Exalytics target. It shows the general information of the target, the overview of incidents and problems, the status of the target, the compliance summary, jobs activity, target blackouts, and the number of configuration changes.
You can view more detailed information of the target by clicking on the Exalytics Machine menu and selecting the option that you want to view, such as target alert history, target incidents, members topology, vCPU consumption report, job activity and collected configuration. You can also manage and administer tasks such as administering target access privileges, administering target blackouts, and removing the target.
The Exalytics Machine homepage also contains a Personalize Page button on the top right corner. This enables you to customize the homepage by adding, removing, or configuring regions. You can also change the layout of the page.
Using the Enterprise Manager Exalytics System console, you can perform the following generic performance tasks:
To view the alert history of an Exalytics machine, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine home page, select Monitoring, then select Alert History.
from the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine home page, select Monitoring, then select Alert History.
The Alert History page provides details about target metrics, such as the periods when a particular metric exceeds its critical threshold value, the periods when the metric could not be calculated, and so on. These details help you plan corrective measures for metric-related problems, before any severe damage or prolonged downtime can occur.
To view the incidents related to the target, navigate to the Incidents section, by following these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Monitoring, then select Incident Manager.
The Incident Manager page provides details about the various events, related to the target, that negatively impact any hardware and software components running on the Exalytics machine. These events require user action. The details provided by this section, such as the incident summary, severity, target, target type, and so on, are essential for troubleshooting.
To view the members topology of an Exalytics machine, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine target home page, select Members, and then select Topology.
The Configuration Topology page for the System is displayed.
The topology viewer enables you to understand and visualize your IT environment in a graphical format. The inter-relationships between systems are used to answer questions such as:
On what targets does this target rely?
What targets will be affected if this system goes down?
How are the members of my target related?
On this page, you can perform the following tasks:
To view a configuration topic, from the View list, select any of the following:
Uses
This view helps you determine the targets that the selected target depends on. If a target is having problems, this view can be useful in helping you determine whether its problems have been caused by another target it depends on.
Used By
This view shows you the targets that depend on the selected target. This can be useful, for example, if you are planning on shutting down the target and need to know what other targets will be affected
System Members
This view shows the members of the system.
Custom views that have been defined by end users.
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The Uses, Used By, and System Members views are out-of-box topology views. They cannot be modified.To create a custom topology view, do the following:
From the Customize menu, select Create Custom View.
Provide the name and description for the topology and select one of the Initial Contents:
Copy Current View to create a topology view similar to the one you are viewing.
Create Empty View to create a topology view that starts with the root node.
Choose one of the following expose options:
Expose the custom view for all targets of the current target type. For example, if you are creating at a topology view for a database target, the new view will be available for all database targets.
Expose the custom view for the current target only.
To share the view, click Share this custom view with other users.
Click OK.
Reduce the unwanted information in the topology by highlighting the target and selecting Hide Relationships... in the Customize menu.
You can also display relationships that are not being displayed by selecting a target. From the Customize menu, select Target, then select Show More Relationships to Target Type....
Click OK.
To navigate to the Consumption Report page, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
On the Exalytics machine home page, click on the Exalytics Machine menu, select Resource Utilization, and then select Consumption Report (All Exalytics).
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You can view the Consumption Report page only for virtual Exalytics machine targets.You can perform the following tasks on the vCPU Consumption page:
To view the vCPU Consumption Report for the software components running on an Exalytics Machine, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, select one of the time periods in the Time Period drop-down list.
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When you select a time period, the Product table and Details table refreshes automatically for the chosen time period.From the Product list, select the product or the products that you want to view the consumption report for. By default all the products are selected.
From the Product table, select a Product you want to view the consumption report for.
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When you select a product, the Details table refreshes automatically to display the Consumption Report for the product.The Details table displays the consumption details for the product or products that you have selected.
You can add more details as columns to the Details table by clicking View, selecting Columns, and then selecting the items you want to be displayed. You can select which columns you want to make visible and which columns to hide by clicking Manage Columns.
By default, the Details table displays the collection time and the number of total vCPUs consumed. Expand the collection time, and host name, to view all the following details:
Collection time of the point when vCPU was collected
Host name of the host on which software is running
The Exalytics machine name
The number of total vCPUs consumed by the software or the target running at that time
The target name
The target type
The owner of the target
To view the resource consumption trend for an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, from the Product drop-down list, select the product you want to view the resource consumption trend for.
Select All if you want to view the resource consumption trend for all the targets.
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When you make a selection from the Product drop-down list, the Product table and the Details table automatically refreshes to display the details for the product or products that you have selected.From the Time Period drop-down list, select the time period for which you want to view the resource consumption trend.
Click on View Trends.
The Resource Consumption Trend window opens.
If you selected All products, then the graphical representation of the resource consumption for all the products will be displayed. You can choose to view trends for individual products as well, by clicking on the Product drop-down list, and selecting the product.
You can also choose to view the resource consumption trend in a table format by clicking Table View.
On the Table view page, you can customize the details you want to view in the table by clicking View.
Click OK to close the Resource Consumption trend window.
To export the vCPU consumption report for an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, select the following:
Time Period
Select a time period for which you want to view the vCPU consumption report for.
View
Select Product.
Product
Select the products you want to view the vCPU consumption report for.
Select All if you want to view the vCPU consumption report for all the products.
Click Export.
On the Opening License dialog box, select the program you want to open the file with. Microsoft Office Excel is the default program. Click OK.
To navigate to the Consumption Report page, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
On the Exalytics machine home page, click on the Exalytics Machine menu, select Resource Utilization, and then select Consumption Report (All Exalytics).
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You can view the Consumption Report page only for virtual Exalytics machine targets.You can perform the following tasks related to managing license editions on the vCPU Consumption page:
To add a license edition to a target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, click Manage License Edition.
In the Manage License Edition dialog box, expand the Search icon. Enter details of the target you want to add a license edition to. Click Search.
Select the target from the Target table, and then click Set License Edition.
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To view more details of the table, click View, and then select all the items you want to view as columns in the target table.Click Done.
To create a new license edition for an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
On the vCPU Consumption page, from the View list, select License Edition.
Click Manage License Edition.
On the Manage License Edition page, select the target you want to create a new license for, and then click Set License Edition.
In the Set License Edition box, you will see a list of licenses that the target already has.
Click Add.
Enter the name of the new license you want to add to the target.
Click OK.
To view the past, currently running, and scheduled jobs related to a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Job Activity.
The Job Activity page displays target jobs related to target administrative tasks, such as starting the target, stopping the target, target blackouts, and so on.
The Job Activity page displays target jobs related to target administrative tasks, such as starting the target, stopping the target, target blackouts, and so on.
To view the collected configuration data of an Exalytics machine target, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics machine menu displayed on the Exalytics machine target home page, select Configuration and Last Collected.
The Latest Configuration page contains the following configuration data of the target:
Configuration items and properties
System configuration data as well as all system members and their configuration data
System and target relationships (immediate, member of, uses, used by, and so forth)
Custom configuration collection data
The browser window consists of left and right panes. The left pane is a tree hierarchy. The right pane consists of tabs that display information in tables. As you navigate in the tree, your selection dictates the contents in the right pane. Depending on the selection, tabs appear containing data such as properties and values, relationships, a hierarchical structure of a system and its members, and file contents in both a parsed and raw text format.
You can take any of several actions as you view a configuration in the browser. These actions are available from the Actions menu above the tabs. The tree hierarchy in the left pane also has context menus available.
You can perform the following administration tasks on the Exalytics machine target:
Viewing the Target Monitoring Configuration of an Exalytics Machine
Administering Target Access Privileges for an Exalytics Machine
To view the monitoring configuration details for a particular target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Target Setup, then select Monitoring Configuration.
The Monitoring Configuration page provides information about instance properties of the target, which provide internal details about target monitoring.
To manage the access privileges for a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Target Setup, then select Administrator Access.
Click Add to grant target access privileges to a role or an administrator.
Use the Access page to set target privileges for roles and administrators. The available privileges are View, Operator, and Full.
View only allows you to view the target in the console, whereas Operator allows you to view targets, and perform all administrative actions except deleting targets. Full allows you to view targets, and perform all administrative actions.
Blackouts suspend data collection on a monitored target and are useful when you want to perform scheduled maintenance tasks on monitored targets.
To administer the blackouts for a target, follow these steps:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
From the Exalytics Machine menu displayed on the target home page, select Monitoring, then select Blackouts.
Use the Blackouts page to search for existing target blackouts, edit existing blackouts, define new blackouts, and stop blackouts. You can also create and stop blackouts using the Exalytics Machine menu. To create or stop a blackout, from the Exalytics System menu, select Control, then select Create Blackout or End Blackout, respectively.
To remove an Exalytics machine target from an Exalytics System, do the following:
From the Targets menu, select Exalytics. On the Systems page, click on the expansion button of the Exalytics System that contains the Exalytics target that you want to access. A list of Exalytics targets is displayed.
Select the Exalytics target that you want. This takes you to the Exalytics Machine home page.
On the Exalytics system home page, select an Exalytics machine target.
On the Exalytics machine home page, from the Exalytics Machine menu, select Target Setup, and then Remove. Target...
A warning will be displayed, asking if you want to proceed. Click Remove.