6 Other Infrastructure Management

This chapter describes the licensed features and access points for each of the following categories of other Enterprise Manager infrastructure management:

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

The Configuration Management Pack for Applications automates the time-consuming and often error-prone process of managing host software and hardware configurations and deployments for Oracle and non-Oracle software, excluding the Oracle Database. This pack provides capabilities such as search and compare across all systems, configuration monitoring, and compliance management, ensuring consistency across deployments.

You can access the Configuration Management Pack for Applications functionality through the following Enterprise Manager Cloud Control licensed links. These components comprise the features provided by the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

The following table describes this management pack offered by Enterprise Manager:

Management Pack Type of Licensing Information Licensing Information

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Features

The following features and functions can be use with an existing Configuration Management Pack for Applications License:

  • Discovery and Inventory tracking provides the ability to discover your assets, and track them.

  • Configuration Management to track inventory, configuration drift and detailed configuration search.

  • Compliance Management for reporting and management of industry and regulatory compliance standards.

  • Compliance Frameworks, standards, and extensibility to meet industry and regulatory compliance requirements

  • Configuration Collection Extensibility to create custom configuration collections and extend current collections

  • Configuration Compare, one-to-one and one-to-many.

  • Configuration History to report on configuration or relations changes during a specific time frame.

  • Configuration Instance Browser to view configuration items and associations associated with a target.

  • Configuration Save for reference, baselines, or Gold Standards.

  • Configuration Search on a specific target or across relationships.

  • Configuration Topology of a specified target and its dependencies along with other targets that are dependent on it.

  • File Synchronization of differences during a comparison.

  • Real-time configuration change detection and automation of compliance frameworks.

  • User Defined Deployment Procedures (UDDP) to automate custom processes by creating a procedure from the start by inserting the required phases, steps, and variables.

With the purchase of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications you also are entitled to the following features. These features are restricted to the host software and hardware configurations and deployments for Oracle and non-Oracle software, excluding the Oracle Database.

  • Self Update to update Enterprise Manager with new features or fixes based on new versions of software available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN) or My Oracle Support (MOS).

    The downloading and applying any updates associated with, host, Oracle and non-Oracle software, excluding the Oracle Database, for Configuration and Compliance are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Links

The following licensed pages, links, features and functions of this pack apply to host software, platform, Oracle software, and non-Oracle software excluding the Oracle Database. For management of the Oracle Database or to extend these features and functions to the Oracle Database, you must purchase the Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Oracle Database.

The following are the licensed pages, links, features and functions that can be use with an existing Configuration Management Pack for Applications License:

Configuration Search

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Configuration and Search. All features, functions, links, buttons and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Instance Browser

  • From the Targets menu, select All Targets, and then select a target, excluding Oracle Database. From the Target home page, select the drop-down under the Target Type then select Configuration. All features, functions, links, buttons and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration History

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Configuration and History. All features, functions, links, buttons and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Compare

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Configuration and Compare. All features, functions, links, buttons and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

File Synchronization

  • When viewing comparison results differences as described in the Configuration Compare feature, select the configuration specification in the tree on the left. Select Enable File Synchronization. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Links (continued)

Configuration Topology

  • From the target home page, select the drop-down under the Target Type and Configuration, Topology. In the View drop-down, Used By is licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

  • From the target home page, select the drop-down under the Target Type and Configuration, Topology and Customization. All features, functions, links, buttons and drill-downs on this page are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Save

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Configuration and Save. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Collection Extensibility

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Configuration and Custom. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Compliance

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Compliance. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Real-time Configuration Change Detection

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Compliance. All features, functions, links, buttons, and drill-downs on this page, excluding features and functions that apply to the Oracle Database, are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

User Defined Deployment Procedures (UDDP)

  • From the Enterprise menu, select Provisioning and Patching, and then select Procedure Library. On the Provisioning Library page, from the list of actions, the Create New option is licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications.

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed CLI Verbs

The following Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) verbs are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

confirm_instance
describe_instance
describe_procedure_input
get_executions
get_instance_data
get_instance_status
get_instances
get_procedure_types
get_procedure_xml
get_procedures
get_retry_argument
ignore_instance
reschedule_instance
resume_instance
save_procedure
stop_instance
submit_procedure
suspend_instance
update_and_retry_step
update_procedure_input

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Reports

The following reports are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications. All reports, excluding reports associated with, or for the Oracle Database, are licensed for Configuration Management Pack for Applications. To access the reports go to the Enterprise Manager home page, click the Reports, then Information Publisher Reports or BI Publisher Enterprise Reports.

The following reporting areas, reports and subreports under Information Publisher Reports are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

  • Compliance

  • Configuration

The following reporting areas, reports and subreports under BI Publisher Enterprise Reports are licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

  • Compliance

  • Configuration

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Configuration Repository Views

The following Configuration repository views are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

MGMT$CCS_DATA
MGMT$CCS_DATA_SOURCE
MGMT$CCS_DATA_SOURCE_VISIBLE
MGMT$CCS_DATA_VISIBLE
MGMT$CS_ASM_DISKGRP_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_CONTROL_FILE_COUNT
MGMT$CS_DB_INIT_PARAMS
MGMT$CS_DB_RBS_IN_SYSTEM
MGMT$CS_DB_REC_SEG_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_REC_TS_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_REC_USER_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_REDO_LOG_COUNT
MGMT$CS_DB_REDO_LOGS
MGMT$CS_DB_TABLESPACES
MGMT$CS_DB_TBSP_SEGSPACE_MGMT
MGMT$CS_FEATURE_USAGE
MGMT$CS_HA_INFO
MGMT$ECM_CURRENT_SNAPSHOTS
MGMT$ECM_VISIBLE_SNAPSHOTS
MGMT$HW_CPU_DETAILS
MGMT$HW_IO_DEVICES
MGMT$HW_NIC_BONDS
MGMT$J2EE_APPLICATION
MGMT$J2EEAPP_EJBCOMPONENT
MGMT$J2EEAPP_JRFWS
MGMT$J2EEAPP_JRFWSOPER
MGMT$J2EEAPP_JRFWSPOLICY
MGMT$J2EEAPP_JRFWSPORT
MGMT$J2EEAPP_WEBAPPCOMPONENT
MGMT$J2EEAPP_WSCONFIG

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Oracle Home Patching Repository Views

The following Oracle Home Patching repository views are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

MGMT$OH_CLONE_PROPERTIES
MGMT$OH_COMPONENT
MGMT$OH_COMP_DEP_RULE
MGMT$OH_COMP_INST_TYPE
MGMT$OH_CRS_NODES
MGMT$OH_DEP_HOMES
MGMT$OH_FILE
MGMT$OH_HOME_INFO
MGMT$OH_INSTALLED_TARGETS
MGMT$OH_INV_SUMMARY
MGMT$OH_PATCH
MGMT$OH_PATCHED_COMPONENT
MGMT$OH_PATCHED_FILE
MGMT$OH_PATCHSET
MGMT$OH_PATCH_FIXED_BUG
MGMT$OH_VERSIONED_PATCHV MGMT$CPF_ADVISORY_INFO
MGMT$CPF_HOMES_INFO
MGMT$CPF_PATCH_INFO
MGMT$EM_HOMES_PLATFORM
MGMT$HOMES_AFFECTED MGMT$PATCH_ADVISORIES
MGMT$APPL_PATCH_AND_PATCHSET
MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHES
MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHSETS

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Compliance Repository Views

The following Compliance repository views are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

MGMT$COMPLIANCE_STANDARD_RULE
MGMT$COMPLIANCE_STANDARD
MGMT$COMPLIANCE_STANDARD_GROUP
MGMT$CS_EVAL_SUMMARY
MGMT$COMPOSITE_CS_EVAL_SUMMARY
MGMT$CS_ASM_DISKGRP_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_CONTROL_FILE_COUNT
MGMT$CS_DB_INIT_PARAMS
MGMT$CS_DB_RBS_IN_SYSTEM
MGMT$CS_DB_REC_SEG_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_REC_TS_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_REC_USER_SETTINGS
MGMT$CS_DB_REDO_LOG_COUNT
MGMT$CS_DB_REDO_LOGS
MGMT$CS_DB_TABLESPACES
MGMT$CS_DB_TBSP_SEGSPACE_MGMT
MGMT$CS_FEATURE_USAGE
MGMT$CS_HA_INFO
MGMT$CS_GROUP_EVAL_SUMMARY
MGMT$CS_RULE_EVAL_SUMMARY
MGMT$CS_TARGET_ASSOC
MGMT$CCC_ALL_OBSERVATIONS
MGMT$CCC_ALL_OBS_BUNDLES
MGMT$CCC_DIAG_ANALYTICS
MGMT$CCC_DIAG_QUEUEBACKLOG

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Licensed Client Configuration Repository Views

The following Client Configuration repository views are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications:

MGMT$CSA_COLLECTIONS
MGMT$CSA_FAILED
MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_COMPONENTS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_SW
MGMT$CSA_HOST_COOKIES
MGMT$CSA_HOST_CUSTOM
MGMT$CSA_HOST_RULES
MGMT$CSA_HOST_CPUS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_IOCARDS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_NICS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_PROPERTIES
MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_FILESYSEMS
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY

Configuration Management Pack for Applications

Previous Configuration Management Packs

If you have an older Configuration Management pack including:

  • Configuration Management Pack

  • Configuration Management Pack for Oracle Middleware

  • Configuration Management Pack for Non-Oracle Systems

You may use all of the features licensed as part of the Configuration Management Pack for Applications only against the previously licensed targets except for the following:

  • Application Configuration Console

  • Configuration Collection Extensibility

  • Creating a custom Comparison Template

  • Using a Comparison Template as part of a Configuration Comparison specification

Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware

This pack improves the availability and performance of Java applications with low overhead deployed on Non-Oracle Middleware (such as, IBM WebSphere Application Server, JBoss Application Server, Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat), and provides in-depth diagnostics.

The following table describes this management pack offered by Enterprise Manager:

Management Pack Type of Licensing Information Licensing Information

Management Pack for non-Oracle Middleware

Components

The Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware includes the following components:

  • Enterprise Manager system monitoring functionality for IBM WebSphere Application Servers, JBoss Application Servers, Apache HTTP Server, and Apache Tomcat.

  • Enterprise Manager monitoring plug-ins for Microsoft Internet Information Services, and Microsoft .NET Framework.

  • Oracle Support Document 2117445.1 (EM 13.x: Java and OS platform support for JVM Diagnostics (JVMD) Agent in Cloud Control) can be found at:

    https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=2117445.1
  • Java Mission Control (JMC), which is applicable for Application Servers and standalone Java applications.

  • Configuration Management: track inventory, configuration drift and detailed configuration search (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

  • Configuration extensions collect details about targets then the Configuration Management features are licensable.

  • Note:

    Configuration Management features do not apply to JBoss Application Server nor JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Management Pack for non-Oracle Middleware

Features

The Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware includes the following features:

  • Blackouts suspend monitoring on targets to support scheduled maintenance periods.

  • Configuration Collection Extensibility to create custom configuration collections and extend current collections

  • Configuration Compare, one-to-one and one-to-many (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

  • Configuration History to report on configuration or relations changes during a specific time frame (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

  • Configuration Instance Browser to view configuration items and associations associated with a target (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

  • Configuration Save for reference, baselines, or Gold Standards (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

  • Configuration Search on a specific target or across relationships (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

    Configuration Topology of a specified target and its dependencies along with other targets that are dependent on it (excluding all versions of JBoss AS and JBoss EAP).

  • Management Connectors open help desk tickets for incidents raised in Enterprise Manager. Event connectors share event information with other management systems.

  • Memory leak detection and analysis in production environments.

  • Metric and Alert/Event History

  • Metric Extensions to create new metrics to monitor conditions specific to customer environments.

  • Monitoring Templates encapsulate target monitoring settings and can later be applied against many targets.

  • Template Collections (with administration groups) automate the deployment of management settings on targets as they join the group.

  • Notifications to define and use different notification methods including e-mail, running custom OS scripts, PL/SQL procedures and SNMP traps; repeat notifications, use of notification-related actions in incident rule sets, administrator notification schedules.

Management Pack for non-Oracle Middleware

Features

  • Performance monitoring provides real-time and historical performance monitoring.

  • Real-time monitoring of JVM provides a summary view of resource bottlenecks affecting performance, such as the database, I/O, CPU, and locks.

  • Trace in-flight transactions to view request performance problems in real time. Analyze time spent in each resource bottleneck (extend to each Java method).

  • User Defined Deployment Procedures (UDDP) to automate custom processes by creating a procedure from the start by inserting the required phases, steps, and variables.

Management Pack for non-Oracle Middleware

Restricted-Use License

Management Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware includes the full capabilities of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Service Level Management.

See Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Service Level Management in End-User Monitoring for more information.

System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Middleware

The Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Middleware provide performance and availability data collection, real-time and historical monitoring, event management/monitoring, notifications, and reporting for Non-Oracle Middleware.

The following table describes this management pack offered by Enterprise Manager:

System Monitoring Plug-in Type of Licensing Information Licensing Information

IBM WebSphere MQ

Documentation Resources

See the "Discovering and Monitoring IBM WebSphere MQ" chapter in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Oracle Fusion Middleware Management Guide:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/GSSOA/GUID-69B9B761-A56C-45A7-8047-7D88C4A476CF.htm#GSSOA11071

Microsoft Active Directory

Documentation Resources

Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Installation Guide for Microsoft Active Directory:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/cloud-control-13.3/PIAVD/toc.htm

IBM WebSphere MQ and Microsoft Active Directory

Features

The following features are available for the IBM WebSphere MQ and Microsoft Active Directory plug-ins:

  • Real-time and historical performance monitoring and trending

  • Event management/monitoring

  • Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules and schedules

  • Event/alert history/metric history

  • Metric extensions

  • Blackouts/planned outages

  • Monitoring templates

  • Performance and event reports

  • Repository tables and views that store or expose the above data

  • Distributed management through groups and systems

  • Configuration Extensions to allow for addition of custom configuration files.

IBM WebSphere MQ

Queue Manager Licensed Links

The following list of links and navigation to them correspond with managing IBM WebSphere MQ Queue Manager in Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c and are licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware.

IBM WebSphere MQ Queue Manager plug-in

  • From the Setup menu, select Agents. All links and subordinate pages of the IBM WebSphere MQ Queue Manager plug-in are licensed.

System Monitoring Plug-ins for non-Oracle Middleware

Licensed CLI Verbs

The following command line interface (CLI) verb (as it relates to adding non-Oracle middleware) is licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware:

  • add_target

The internal names to be used with the add_target verb are:

  • wmq (See note below.)

  • active_directory

Note:

For wmq, another jar file is needed after executing the add_target command. After adding the target, modify the jar PATH property from the "Monitoring Configuration link" by appending the following path:

/scratch/mqjars/com.ibm.mq.jar

Use a colon as a separator between the two jar files if the agent is Linux-based, and a semicolon if the agent is Windows-based.

System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Databases

The following plug-ins for non-Oracle databases are available:

  • Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server

  • Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for IBM DB2

  • Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)

The following table describes this management pack offered by Enterprise Manager:

System Monitoring Plug-in Type of Licensing Information Licensing Information

System Monitoring Plug-ins for non-Oracle Database

Features

The following features are available for these plug-ins:

  • Performance monitoring and trending

  • Help desk (ticketing) and event connectors

  • Metric alert management: metric history and associated drill-downs, alert history and associated drill-downs, event history and associated drill-downs

  • Metric extensions

  • Event/alert notifications: different notification methods including e-mail, running custom OS scripts, PL/SQL procedures and SNMP traps; repeat notifications, use of notification-related actions in incident rule sets, administrator notification schedules

  • Blackouts/planned outages

  • Monitoring templates, template collections with administration groups, and metric extensions

  • Performance and event reports

  • Configuration Management: Configuration Collection Extensibility for licensed target types, Configuration Compare (not including the use of Comparison Templates), Configuration History, Configuration Instance Browser, Configuration Save, and Configuration Search for licensed target types

  • Repository tables/views that store/expose the above data

  • User Defined Deployment Procedures (UDDP): Automate custom processes by creating a procedure from the start by inserting the required phases, steps, and variables.

To use these features, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Database.

System Monitoring Plug-ins for non-Oracle Database

Licensed Links

The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the plug-ins. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The list that follows assumes that you begin from the main Enterprise Manager Cloud Control home page.

In the upper right corner of the page, click Setup, then select Add Target, and finally Add Targets Manually. On this page, select the Add Non-Host Targets by Specifying Target Monitoring Properties option. The following selections from the Target Type drop-down menu are licensed features of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Databases:

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • IBM DB2 Database

  • Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

System Monitoring Plug-ins for non-Oracle Database

Licensed CLI Verbs

The following command line interface (CLI) verb is licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Databases:

  • add_target

The internal names to be used with the add_target verb are:

  • microsoft_sqlserver_database

  • ibm_db2_database

  • sybase_ase