9 Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console

Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console provides a user-friendly interface to view and create databases and view job activity.

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About the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to view and create databases and to view job activity.

The Web Console assists you to deploy Oracle Databases that follow Optimal Flexible Architecture guidelines. The Optimal Flexible Architecture standard provides best practices configurations to help to ensure database deployments that are easier to support and maintain. Optimal Flexible Architecture includes the following:

  • Structured organization of directories and files, and consistent naming for critical database files, such as control files, redo log files, and other critical files, which simplifies database administration.

  • Separation of tablespace contents to minimize tablespace free space fragmentation, and maximize administrative flexibility

  • Stripe and Mirror Everything (SAME) deployment, which safeguards against database failures

The Web Console provides a user-friendly option to perform the following tasks:

  • Deploy the appliance

  • View existing databases

  • Create and delete databases

  • View existing database homes

  • Create and delete database homes

  • View job activity

  • Configure and enable Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR)

Note:

Create Oracle Databases using the Web Console or command-line interface to ensure that your database is configured optimally for Oracle Database Appliance.

Refer to Oracle Appliance Manager Command-Line Interface for the lifecycle tasks that you can perform with the command-line interface.

Refer to "Optimal Flexible Architecture" in Oracle Database Installation Guide for Linux for more information about Optimal Flexible Architecture.

Configuring Oracle ASR in the Web Console

Configure Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR).

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About Configuring Oracle ASR

Configure Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR) to automatically generate service requests for specific hardware faults.

Oracle ASR is a secure support feature that can improve system availability through expedited diagnostics and priority service request handling. You can configure Oracle ASR on Oracle Database Appliance to use its own ASR Manager or use Oracle ASR Manager configured on another server in the same network as your appliance (internal Oracle ASR). If you already have Oracle ASR Manager configured in your environment, you can register Oracle Database Appliance with your existing Oracle ASR Manager (external Oracle ASR).

You can configure Oracle ASR as part of deploying the appliance, or you can use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console or command-line interface to configure or edit an Oracle ASR after deployment.

You need the following items to support Oracle ASR:

  • Oracle Database Appliance hardware must be associated with a Support Identifier (SI) in My Oracle Support.

  • If a proxy server is required for Internet access to Oracle, then you must also provide the name of the proxy server. You can optionally configure Oracle ASR to use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Version 2 or SNMP Version 3.

  • To configure an internal Oracle ASR Manager, you need a My Oracle Support account user name (e-mail address) and password associated with the My Oracle Support account under which the server is registered.

  • To register with an external Oracle ASR Manager, you need the IP address of the Oracle ASR Manager.

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Configuring Internal Oracle ASR

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to configure Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR) in Oracle Database Appliance.

You can register with an internal Oracle ASR Manager at any time, or edit an existing registration. Before configuring, verify that the Oracle Database Appliance hardware is associated with a Support Identifier (SI) in My Oracle Support.
You need the following information to configure Oracle ASR:

  • The e-mail address associated with the My Oracle Support account under which the server is registered

  • The password associated with the My Oracle Support account under which the server is registered

  • If a proxy server is required for Internet access to Oracle, then you must also provide the name of the proxy server

  1. Open a browser and enter the following URL to launch the Web Console:
    https://ip-address:7093/mgmt/index.html
  2. Enter the following credentials:
    • User name: oda-admin
    • Password: welcome1
  3. Click the Appliance tab.
  4. Click the Oracle ASR menu.
  5. If Oracle ASR is already configured,
  6. Click Configure ASR.
  7. Select Internal from the ASR Type menu.
  8. In the ASR User Name field, enter e-mail address associated with the My Oracle Support account under which the server is registered.
  9. In the Password field, enter the password associated with the My Oracle Support account under which the server is registered.
  10. Select V2 or V3 from the SNMP Version menu.
  11. (Optional) If you are using an HTTP Proxy for upload to Oracle ASR, complete the following:
    1. HTTP Proxy used for Upload to ASR: Select Yes .
    2. Proxy User Name: If you are using a proxy for upload, enter the proxy user name.
    3. Proxy Port: If you are using a proxy for upload, enter the proxy port.
    4. (Optional) HTTP Proxy Requires Authentication: If you are using a proxy for upload, select Yes if you require authentication. If you do not require authentication, select No.
    5. (Optional) Proxy Password: If you are using a proxy for upload and require authentication, enter the proxy password.
  12. Click Create.

Registering with External Oracle ASR Manager

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to register Oracle Database Appliance with an existing Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR) Manager.

You can register with an external Oracle ASR Manager at any time.

Before configuring, verify that the Oracle Database Appliance hardware is associated with a Support Identifier (SI) in My Oracle Support.

To configure Oracle ASR, you need the IP Address for the Oracle ASR Manager:

  1. Open a browser and enter the following URL to launch the Web Console:
    https://ip-address:7093/mgmt/index.html
  2. Enter the following credentials:
    • User name: oda-admin
    • Password: welcome1
  3. Click the Appliance tab.
  4. Click the Oracle ASR menu.
  5. If Oracle ASR is already configured,
  6. Click Configure ASR.
  7. Select External from the ASR Type menu.
  8. Enter the IP Address for the Oracle ASR Manager in the ASR Manager IP field.
  9. Select V2 orV3 from the SNMP Version menu.
  10. Click Create.

Viewing Job Activity

Use the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console to view job activity, the status of tasks in a job, and job status.

  1. Open a browser and enter the following URL to launch the Web Console:
    https://ip-address:7093/mgmt/index.html
  2. Enter the following credentials:
    • User name: oda-admin
    • Password: welcome1
  3. Click Activity.
    The jobs page displays recent jobs, the job name, status, and details. Click the job name to display greater details about the job, including the tasks that make up the job.