Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center includes several administrative tools for viewing and fine-tuning the product's features. This chapter discusses these tools.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides you with a variety of tools for understanding and managing your data center.
You can view services and logs, add an alias to ensure that a product is recognized, add and edit authentications for external sites, and edit the energy cost used to calculate the power cost of assets.
Some of the procedures described in this section use the ecadm
and proxyadm
commands. See Command Line Administration for more information about these commands.
On Oracle Solaris systems, these commands are in the /opt/SUNWxvmoc/bin/
directory.
On Linux systems, these commands are in the /opt/sun/xvmoc/bin/
directory.
You require specific roles to perform general administration tasks in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.
The following table lists the tasks and the role required to complete the task. Contact your administrator if you do not have the necessary role or privilege to complete a task.
Table 5-1 General Administration Tasks and Roles
Task | Role |
---|---|
View Service Status |
Ops Center Admin |
View Logs |
Ops Center Admin |
Add a Product Alias |
Ops Center Admin |
Add or Edit Authentications |
Ops Center Admin |
Edit the Energy Cost |
Ops Center Admin |
You can perform various general administration operations using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.
Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, you can perform the following tasks:
View service status
View logs
Add a product alias
Add and edit authentications
Edit the energy cost
In the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center user interface, you can find general administration information in different locations.
Table 5-2 Location of General Administration Information in the UI
To See | Location |
---|---|
View Service Status |
Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Summary tab. |
View Logs |
Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select the Logs tab. |
Adding a Product Alias |
Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Add Product Alias in the Actions pane. |
Add or Edit Authentications |
Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Edit Authentications in the Actions pane. |
Edit the Energy Cost |
Expand Administration in the Navigation pane and select the Enterprise Controller. Select Edit Energy Cost in the Actions pane. |
The status of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center services is monitored and displayed in the UI.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center relies on the services listed in Table 5-3. The Fault Management Resource Identifier (FMRI) for each service can be used with SMF commands.
Do not directly enable or disable these services unless directed to do so by Oracle Support. Use the ecadm
, proxyadm
, and agentadm
commands to manage the services.
Table 5-3 shows the names, FRMI identifiers, and normal statuses of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center services.
Table 5-3 Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Services
Service Name | FMRI | Normal Status |
---|---|---|
Cacao |
common-agent-container-1:scn-proxy |
Enabled |
Cacao |
common-agent-container-1:oem-ec |
Enabled |
Enterprise Controller - Down |
ec-server-splashpage:default |
Disabled unless Enterprise Controller is down |
Ops Center AxajTerm Serial Console |
ajaxterm:default |
Enabled |
SCN Infrastructure Database |
db:default |
Enabled |
SCN Infrastructure Database |
db:local |
Enabled if the software is using an embedded database |
SCN Infrastructure Database |
db:remote |
Enabled if the software is using a remote database |
SCN Oracle (local) database |
oracle:default |
Enabled |
SCN Oracle (local) database listener |
oralistener:default |
Enabled |
SCN Satellite Console |
console:default |
Enabled |
Update Connection Enterprise - Agent |
update-agent:default |
Enabled if the local Agent Controller is configured |
Update Connection Enterprise - Scheduler |
uce-scheduler:default |
Enabled |
Update Connection Enterprise - Server |
uce-server:default |
Enabled |
dhcpd |
dhcpd:default |
Enabled |
You can view logs to diagnose problems or examine Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center activities.
The following is the list of different logs which you can view:
Cacao log: It provides logs for the agent running Enterprise Controller, Proxy Controller, Agent Controller, and Virtual Controller. It also provides the job execution startup error messages.
UI log: It is the main log for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and provides log dedicated to the user interface to troubleshoot the user interface issues.
Proxy log: It is a cacao log for the Proxy Controller and reports the operations invoked by the Proxy Controllers.
Update error log: It provides reports on server.cgi
downloads, authentications, daemon startups, and database connection issues.
Update channel download log: It provides a specific download log for each channel. It reports the specific download job procedures.
Update channel error log: It provides a specific error log for each channel. It reports authentications and network protocol connections.
This procedure describes the steps to view the logs.
In some cases, an asset's type is not recognized. You can add a product alias to ensure that Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center recognizes an asset and that all of its features are available.
To add a product alias, perform the following steps:
Note:
Use this feature as directed by Oracle Support.
Authentications, such as My Oracle Support (MOS) or other credentials, are used to download content such as updates from Oracle or third-party sites. MOS credentials are also used to create service requests. You can add or edit authentications to access additional external resources.
If you have not configured Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM) with a set of MOS credentials, OCM uses the MOS credentials supplied to Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center to configure itself. After OCM has configured itself using a valid set of authenticated credentials, it does not use any other MOS credentials.
If OCM is already configured, no attempt is made to reconfigure it with new credentials.
Note:
You must register the Enterprise Controller before adding My Oracle Support credentials.
One of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center capabilities is monitoring power utilization for a server or among groups of servers or virtualization hosts.
You can also monitor the cost of power utilization by supplying the cost per currency unit. This information is displayed in the Summary or Energy tab.
You can view the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center documents for additional information.
For more information, see these Oracle resources:
For more information on viewing service requests, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Use Service Requests
For more information on administering concepts, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Administer Your Environment Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
For more information on product administration, see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59957_01/nav/administer.htm
For end-to-end examples, see the Deploy How To library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59957_01/nav/deploy.htm
and the Operate How To library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59957_01/nav/operate.htm
For more information on Enterprise Manager Ops Center, see the Ops Center blog at https://blogs.oracle.com/opscenter/