Before you create a service, you must be familiar with the concepts of service management. You must also perform the following tasks:
Identify the locations where the Management Agents must be available to monitor the services using the appropriate service tests and protocols. For example, if your service includes HTTP based service tests or IMAP based service tests, ensure that the location of the Management Agent within your network architecture allows these tests. You must ensure that the Management Agents are installed at appropriate locations according to the network security (firewalls) and network routing guidelines.
Note that the beacon targets must already be created on the Management Agents before creating the service.
Discover all the components for your service so that they can be listed as Enterprise Manager targets.
Define systems on which the service is based.
You can create:
Generic Service - Test Based: You can create a service that is based on a type of service test such as ATS, CalDAV, DNS, FTP, and so on.
Generic Service - System Based: You can create a service that is based on a system or one or more system components.
Aggregate Service: An aggregate service consists of one or more sub services which can either test based or system based generic services.
To create a test based generic service, follow these steps:
To create a system based generic service, follow these steps:
Aggregate services consist of one or more services, called sub services or member services. A subservice is any service created in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. The availability, performance, and usage for the aggregate service depend on the availability, performance, and usage for the individual sub services comprising the service. When creating an aggregate service, at the very least, either a system or one or more sub services must be associated. You can include both sub services and a system if required.
To create an aggregate service, follow these steps:
After you have created an aggregate service, you can add or remove its constituent sub services, modify the availability definition and add or delete performance or usage metrics.
WARNING:
If you delete or remove a subservice from an aggregate service, the aggregate service performance, usage, and business metrics may be affected if they are based on a deleted subservice's metrics.