Discovering and Managing Operating Systems
12c Release 3 (12.3.1.0.0)
E60017-02
December, 2015
This guide provides an end-to-end example for how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides comprehensive lifecycle management for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems in your data center.
The discovery feature makes adding operating systems and other assets quick and easy. You can discover operating systems using a discovery profile, which specifies the discovery targets and the protocols and credentials for accessing and managing them. You can also run a discovery to find all assets equipped with Service Tags, and then supply credentials to manage them. Operating systems and virtualization software can be managed using an Agent Controller installed on the system or using agentless management using a set of credentials.
Two management modes are available, agent-managed and agentlessly-managed. An agent managed operating system has an Agent Controller installed to gather information for the Enterprise Controller and is required for some OS-specific features such as software patching or update and virtualization management. When you do not want an Agent Controller installed, you can agentlessly manage your operating systems. To gather information on an agentlessly-managed operating system, the Proxy Controller uses SSH to perform certain tasks and periodically check on the operating system.
When you discover a system with Oracle Solaris 11 OS, the zone features are identified in the system. When you discover a global zone, all of its local zones are discovered as well.
In this document, you learn how an Oracle Solaris 11 OS is discovered using a discovery profile and managed with an Agent Controller. The Enterprise Controller must be on Oracle Solaris 11 in order to perform management functions.
See Related Articles and Resources for links to related information and articles about discovering and managing other assets.
You will need the following:
A configured Enterprise Controller.
An Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System and the credentials needed to access it.
Access to Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center using Ops Center Admin role (to create assets) and Ops Center Security Admin role (to create credentials).
Host name or IP address of the Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System.
A discovery profile is a combination of an asset type, a set of host names or IP addresses, and a set of credentials. You can use discovery profiles to locate specific systems and to specify how the discovered assets should be managed – with or without an Agent Controller.
The tasks that are covered in this section are as follows:
Assets are managed using a set of credentials. You can create or use existing credentials to discover and connect with assets.
When creating a credential, if your target OS supports root login, enter a root user (or other privileged user) and leave the Privileged Role field blank. If the target OS does not support root login, then enter a non-root user that can login to the OS and also specify a root/privileged user in the Privileged Role field.
To create credentials, perform the following steps:
You can create a discovery profile and then run a discovery using the profile. You can provide some discovery information, such as the targeted IP addresses and the discovery credentials during profile creation or when the profile is run.
A Tag is a set of information attached to an asset. Each tag consists of a tag name, which is drawn from a list of values appropriate for each asset, and a tag value, which can be any text string. You can also create your own tag name. For example, an asset could have a tag with a tag name of oracle.cloud.resource.creation.time and a value of 12 June. Tags can be used to associate information with assets, and to group assets based on tags or tag values. You can add tags to assets during or after discovery.
When the discovery job completes successfully, your OS is visible in the All Assets section of the user interface as shown in the following figure. You can begin using the monitoring, analytics, OS provisioning, and update features to gather information and perform tasks.
See Managing Assets in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Configuration Reference and Operating System Management in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Operations Reference for more information.
For end-to-end examples, see the workflows and how to documentation in the library. For deployment tasks, go to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59957_01/nav/deploy.htm
and for operate tasks go to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59957_01/nav/operate.htm
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E60017-02
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