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Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions
Part I Monitoring and Managing Targets
1
Enterprise Monitoring
1.1
Monitoring Overview
1.2
Comprehensive Out-of-Box Monitoring
1.3
Monitoring: Basics
1.3.1
Metric Thresholds: Determining When a Monitored Condition is an Issue
1.3.2
Metric Baselines: Determining Valid Metric Thresholds
1.3.3
Advanced Threshold Management
1.3.4
Events: Defining What Conditions are of Interest
1.3.5
Corrective Actions: Resolving Issues Automatically
1.3.6
Metric Extensions: Customizing Monitoring
1.3.7
Blackouts and Notification Blackouts
1.4
Monitoring: Advanced Setup
1.4.1
Monitoring Templates
1.4.2
Administration Groups and Template Collections
1.4.3
Customizing Alert Messages
1.5
Notifications
1.5.1
Customizing Notifications
1.6
Managing Events, Incidents, and Problems
1.6.1
Incident Manager
1.6.2
Incident Rules and Rule Sets
1.6.3
Connectors
1.7
Accessing Monitoring Information
2
Using Incident Management
2.1
Management Concepts
2.1.1
Event Management
2.1.2
Incident Management
2.1.2.1
Working with Incidents
2.1.2.2
Incident Composed of a Single Event
2.1.2.3
Incident Composed of Multiple Events
2.1.2.4
How are Incidents Created?
2.1.3
Problem Management
2.1.4
Rule Sets
2.1.4.1
Out-of-Box Rule Sets
2.1.4.2
Rule Set Types
2.1.4.3
Rules
2.1.4.3.1
Rule Application
2.1.4.3.2
Rule Criteria
2.1.4.3.3
Rule Actions
2.1.5
Incident Manager
2.1.5.1
Views
2.1.6
Summing Up
2.2
Setting Up Your Incident Management Environment
2.2.1
Setting Up Your Monitoring Infrastructure
2.2.1.1
Rule Set Development
2.2.1.1.1
Before Using Rules
2.2.1.1.2
Setting Up Notifications
2.2.2
Setting Up Administrators and Privileges
2.2.3
Monitoring Privileges
2.2.4
Setting Up Rule Sets
2.2.4.1
Creating a Rule Set
2.2.4.2
Creating a Rule to Create an Incident
2.2.4.3
Creating a Rule to Manage Escalation of Incidents
2.2.4.4
Creating a Rule to Escalate a Problem
2.2.4.5
Testing Rule Sets
2.2.4.6
Subscribing to Receive Email from a Rule
2.2.4.7
Receiving Email for Private Rules
2.3
Working with Incidents
2.3.1
Finding What Needs to be Worked On
2.3.2
Searching for Incidents
2.3.3
Setting Up Custom Views
2.3.3.1
Incident Dashboard
2.3.4
Sharing/Unsharing Custom Views
2.3.5
Responding and Working on a Simple Incident
2.3.6
Responding to and Managing Multiple Incidents, Events and Problems in Bulk
2.3.7
Searching My Oracle Support Knowledge
2.3.8
Submitting an Open Service Request (Problems-only)
2.3.9
Suppressing Incidents and Problems
2.3.10
Managing Workload Distribution of Incidents
2.3.11
Reviewing Events on a Periodic Basis
2.3.11.1
Creating an Incident Manually
2.4
Advanced Topics
2.4.1
Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR): Incident Flood Control
2.4.1.1
Working with ADR Diagnostic Incidents Using Incident Manager
2.4.1.2
Incident Flood Control
2.4.2
Defining Custom Incident Statuses
2.4.2.1
Creating a New Resolution State
2.4.2.2
Modifying an Existing Resolution State
2.4.3
Clearing Stateless Alerts for Metric Alert Event Types
2.4.4
Automatically Clearing "Manually Clearable" Events
2.4.5
User-reported Events
2.4.5.1
Format
2.4.5.2
Options
2.4.5.3
Examples
2.4.6
Additional Rule Applications
2.4.6.1
Setting Up a Rule to Send Different Notifications for Different Severity States of an Event
2.4.6.2
Creating a Rule to Notify Different Administrators Based on the Event Type
2.4.6.3
Creating a Rule to Create a Ticket for Incidents
2.4.6.4
Creating a Rule to Send SNMP Traps to Third Party Systems
2.4.7
Exporting and Importing Incident Rules
2.4.7.1
Exporting Rule Sets using the Enterprise Manager Console
2.4.7.2
Importing Rule Sets using the Enterprise Manager Console
2.4.7.3
Importing Rule Sets Using EM CLI
2.4.7.4
Exporting Rule Sets Using EM CLI
2.4.8
Creating Corrective Actions for Events
2.4.9
Compressing Multiple Events into a Single Incident
2.4.10
Event Prioritization
2.4.11
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Target Down Events
2.4.11.1
How RCA Works
2.4.11.2
Leveraging RCA Results in Incident Rule Sets
2.4.11.3
Leveraging RCA Results in Incident Manager
2.4.11.4
Leveraging RCA Results in the System Dashboard
2.4.11.5
Creating a Rule to Update Incident Priority for Non-symptom Events
2.4.11.6
Creating Incidents On Non-symptom Events
2.4.11.7
Introducing a Time Delay
2.5
Moving from Enterprise Manager 10/11g to 12c and Greater
2.6
Monitoring: Common Tasks
2.6.1
Setting Up an Email Gateway
2.6.2
Sending Email for Metric Alerts
2.6.3
Sending SNMP Traps for Metric Alerts
2.6.4
Sending Events to an Event Connector
2.6.5
Sending Email to Different Email Addresses for Different Periods of the Day
3
Using Notifications
3.1
Setting Up Notifications
3.1.1
Setting Up a Mail Server for Notifications
3.1.2
Setting Up Email for Yourself
3.1.2.1
Defining Email Addresses
3.1.2.2
Setting Up a Notification Schedule
3.1.2.3
Subscribe to Receive Email for Incident Rules
3.1.3
Setting Up Email for Other Administrators
3.1.4
Email Customization
3.1.4.1
Email Customization Reference
3.1.5
Setting Up Repeat Notifications
3.2
Extending Notification Beyond Email
3.3
Sending Notifications Using OS Commands and Scripts
3.3.1
Script Examples
3.3.2
Migrating pre-12c OS Command Scripts
3.3.2.1
Migrating Metric Alert Event Types
3.3.2.2
Migrating Target Availability Event Types
3.3.2.3
Migrating Job Status Change Event Types
3.3.2.4
Migrating Corrective Action-Related OS Scripts
3.3.2.5
Notification Type Mapping
3.4
Sending Notifications Using PL/SQL Procedures
3.4.1
Defining a PL/SQL-based Notification Method
3.4.2
Migrating Pre-12c PL/SQL Advanced Notification Methods
3.4.2.1
Mapping for MGMT_NOTIFY_SEVERITY
3.4.2.2
Mapping for MGMT_NOTIFY_JOB
3.4.2.3
Mapping for MGMT_NOTIFY_CORRECTIVE_ACTION
3.5
Sending SNMP Traps to Third Party Systems
3.5.1
SNMP Version 1 Versus SNMP Version 3
3.5.2
Working with SNMP V3 Trap Notification Methods
3.5.2.1
Configuring the OMS to Send SNMP Trap Notifications
3.5.2.2
Creating/Editing an SNMP V3 Trap Notification Method
3.5.2.3
Editing a User Security Model Entry
3.5.2.4
Viewing Available SNMP V3 Trap Notification Methods
3.5.2.5
Deleting an SNMP V3 Trap Notification Method
3.5.3
Creating an SNMP V1 Trap
3.5.4
SNMP Traps: Moving from Previous Enterprise Manager Releases to 12c and Greater
3.6
Management Information Base (MIB)
3.6.1
About MIBs
3.6.2
MIB Definition
3.6.3
Reading the MIB Variable Descriptions
3.6.3.1
Variable Name
3.7
Passing Corrective Action Status Change Information
3.7.1
Passing Corrective Action Execution Status to an OS Command or Script
3.7.2
Passing Corrective Action Execution Status to a PLSQL Procedure
3.8
Passing Job Execution Status Information
3.8.1
Passing Job Execution Status to a PL/SQL Procedure
3.8.2
Passing Job Execution Status to an OS Command or Script
3.9
Passing User-Defined Target Properties to Notification Methods
3.10
Notification Reference
3.10.1
EMOMS Properties
3.10.2
Passing Event, Incident, Problem Information to an OS Command or Script
3.10.2.1
Environment Variables Common to Event, Incident and Problem
3.10.2.2
Event Notification-Specific Environment Variables
3.10.2.3
Environment Variables Specific to Event Types
3.10.2.4
Environment Variables Specific to Incident Notifications
3.10.2.5
Environment Variables Specific to Problem Notifications
3.10.2.6
Environment Variables Common to Incident and Problem Notifications
3.10.2.6.1
Environment Variables Related to Event Sources
3.10.3
Passing Information to a PL/SQL Procedure
3.10.3.1
Notification Payload Elements Specific to Event Types
3.10.4
Troubleshooting Notifications
3.10.4.1
General Setup
3.10.4.2
Notification System Errors
3.10.4.3
Notification System Trace Messages
3.10.4.4
Email Errors
3.10.4.5
OS Command Errors
3.10.4.6
SNMP Trap Errors
3.10.4.7
PL/SQL Errors
3.11
System Broadcasts
4
Using Blackouts and Notification Blackouts
4.1
Blackouts and Notification Blackouts
4.1.1
About Blackouts
4.1.2
About Notification Blackouts
4.2
Working with Blackouts/Notification Blackouts
4.2.1
Creating Blackouts/Notification Blackouts
4.2.2
Editing Blackouts/Notification Blackouts
4.2.3
Viewing Blackouts/Notification Blackouts
4.2.4
Purging Blackouts/Notification Blackouts That Have Ended
4.3
Controlling Blackouts Using the Command Line Utility
4.4
About Blackouts Best Effort
4.4.1
When to Use Blackout Best Effort
5
Managing Groups
5.1
Introduction to Groups
5.1.1
Overview of Groups
5.1.2
Overview of Privilege Propagating Groups
5.1.3
Overview of Dynamic Groups
5.1.4
Overview of Administration Groups
5.1.5
Choosing Which Type of Group To Use
5.2
Managing Groups
5.2.1
Creating and Editing Groups
5.2.2
Creating Dynamic Groups
5.2.3
Adding Members to Privilege Propagating Groups
5.2.4
Converting Conventional Groups to Privilege Propagating Groups
5.2.5
Viewing and Managing Groups
5.2.6
Overview of Group Charts
5.2.7
Overview of Group Members
5.2.8
Viewing Group Status History
5.2.9
About the System Dashboard
5.3
Using Out-of-Box Reports
6
Using Administration Groups
6.1
What is an Administration Group?
6.1.1
Developing an Administration Group
6.2
Planning an Administrative Group
6.3
Implementing Administration Groups and Template Collections
6.3.1
Creating the Administration Group Hierarchy
6.3.2
Accessing the Administration Group Home Page
6.3.3
Defining the Hierarchy
6.3.4
Defining Template Collections
6.3.4.1
Required Privileges
6.3.4.2
Corrective Action Credentials
6.3.5
Associating Template Collections with Administration Groups
6.3.5.1
Associating a Template Collection with an Administration Group
6.3.5.2
Searching for Administration Groups
6.3.5.3
Setting the Global Synchronization Schedule
6.3.5.4
When Template Collection Synchronization Occurs
6.3.5.5
Viewing Synchronization Status
6.3.5.6
Group Member Type and Synchronization
6.3.5.7
System Targets and Administration Groups
6.3.5.8
Disassociating a Template Collection from a Group
6.3.5.9
Viewing Aggregate (Group Management) Settings
6.3.5.10
Viewing the Administration Group Homepage
6.3.5.11
Identifying Targets Not Part of Any Administration Group
6.4
Changing the Administration Group Hierarchy
6.4.1
Adding a New Hierarchy Level
6.4.2
Removing a Hierarchy Level
6.4.3
Merging Administration Groups
6.4.4
Removing Administration Groups
7
Using Monitoring Templates
7.1
About Monitoring Templates
7.2
Definition of a Monitoring Template
7.3
Default Templates (Auto Apply Templates)
7.4
Viewing a List of Monitoring Templates
7.5
Creating a Monitoring Template
7.6
Editing a Monitoring Template
7.7
Applying Monitoring Templates to Targets
7.7.1
Applying a Monitoring Template
7.7.2
Monitoring Template Application Options
7.7.2.1
Apply Options
7.7.2.2
Metrics with Key Value Settings
7.8
Comparing Monitoring Templates with Targets
7.8.1
When is a metric between a template and a target considered "different"?
7.9
Comparing Metric Settings Using Information Publisher
7.10
Exporting and Importing Monitoring Templates
7.11
Upgrading Enterprise Manager: Comparing Monitoring Templates
7.12
Changing the Monitoring Template Apply History Retention Period
8
Using Metric Extensions
8.1
What are Metric Extensions?
8.2
Metric Extension Lifecycle
8.3
Working with Metric Extensions
8.3.1
Administrator Privilege Requirements
8.3.2
Granting Create Metric Extension Privilege
8.3.3
Managing Administrator Privileges
8.3.4
Managing Administrator Access to Metric Extensions
8.3.4.1
Granting Full/Edit Privileges on a Metric Extension
8.3.4.2
Revoking Access Privileges on a Metric Extension
8.3.4.3
Transferring Metric Extension Ownership
8.3.5
Creating a New Metric Extension
8.3.6
Creating a New Metric Extension (Create Like)
8.3.7
Editing a Metric Extension
8.3.8
Creating the Next Version of an Existing Metric Extension
8.3.9
Importing a Metric Extension
8.3.10
Exporting a Metric Extension
8.3.11
Deleting a Metric Extension
8.3.12
Deploying Metric Extensions to a Group of Targets
8.3.13
Creating an Incident Rule to Send Email from Metric Extensions
8.3.14
Updating Older Versions of Metric Extensions Already Deployed to a Group of Targets
8.3.15
Creating Repository-side Metric Extensions
8.4
Adapters
8.4.1
OS Command Adapter - Single Column
8.4.2
OS Command Adapter- Multiple Values
8.4.3
OS Command Adapter - Multiple Columns
8.4.4
SQL Adapter
8.4.5
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Adapter
8.4.6
JMX Adapter
8.5
Converting User-defined Metrics to Metric Extensions
8.5.1
Overview
8.5.2
Commands
8.6
Metric Extension Command Line Verbs
9
Advanced Threshold Management
9.1
Accessing the Advanced Threshold Management Page
9.2
Adaptive Thresholds
9.2.1
Registering Adaptive Threshold Metrics
9.2.2
Configuring Adaptive Thresholds
9.2.3
Determining whether Adaptive Thresholds are Correct
9.2.4
Testing Adaptive Metric Thresholds
9.2.5
Deregistering Adaptive Threshold Metrics
9.2.6
Setting Adaptive Thresholds using Monitoring Templates
9.3
Time-based Static Thresholds
9.3.1
Registering Time-based Static Thresholds
9.3.2
Deregistering Time-based Static Thresholds
9.4
Determining What is a Valid Metric Threshold
10
Utilizing the Job System and Corrective Actions
10.1
Job System Purpose and Overview
10.1.1
Changing Job Activity Summary Table Views
10.1.2
Job Searches
10.1.2.1
Saving Job Searches
10.1.2.2
Editing Saved Job Searches
10.1.2.3
Importing/Exporting Saved Job Searches
10.1.3
What Are Job Executions and Job Runs?
10.1.3.1
Job Executions
10.1.3.2
Job Runs
10.1.4
Operations on Job Executions and Job Runs
10.2
Preliminary Considerations
10.2.1
Administrator Roles
10.2.2
Creating Scripts
10.2.3
Sharing Job Responsibilities
10.2.4
Submitting Jobs for Groups
10.3
Creating Jobs
10.3.1
Selecting a Job Type
10.3.2
Creating an OS Command Job
10.3.2.1
Specifying a Single Operation
10.3.2.2
Specifying a Script
10.3.2.3
Access Level Rules
10.3.3
Creating a SQL Script Job
10.3.3.1
Specifying Targets
10.3.3.2
Specifying Options for the Parameters Page
10.3.3.3
Specifying Host and Database Credentials
10.3.3.4
Returning Error Codes from SQL Script Jobs
10.3.4
Creating a Multi-task Job
10.3.4.1
Job Capabilities
10.3.4.2
Specifying Targets for a Multi-task Job
10.3.4.3
Adding Tasks to the Job
10.4
Viewing and Analyzing Job Status
10.5
Generating Job Event Criteria
10.5.1
Enabling Events For Job Status, Status Severity, and Targetless Jobs
10.5.2
Adding Targets To Generate Events For Job Status
10.6
Creating Event Rules For Job Status Change
10.6.1
Creating Job Status Change Event Rules For Jobs
10.6.2
Creating Job Status Change Event Rules For Targets
10.7
Using Diagnostic Tools
10.7.1
Enabling Job Logging
10.7.2
Viewing Job Logging
10.7.3
Debugging a Failed Job
10.7.4
Checking for Incidents Related to a Failed Job
10.7.5
Packaging an Incident Generated by a Job Step
10.7.6
Viewing Remote Log Files
10.7.7
Diagnosing Problems with Cloud Control Management Tools
10.7.7.1
Health Overview
10.7.7.2
Repository Home Page
10.7.7.3
Management Services and Repository: All Metrics
10.7.7.4
OMS and Repository: Diagnostic Metrics
10.7.7.5
OMS and Repository: Charts
10.7.7.6
Management Servers and Job Activity Details Pages
10.7.7.7
Job System Reports
10.8
Creating Corrective Actions
10.8.1
Providing Credentials
10.8.2
Creating Corrective Actions for Metrics
10.8.3
Creating a Library Corrective Action
10.8.4
Specifying Access to Corrective Actions
10.8.4.1
Defining or Modifying Access
10.8.4.2
Access Level Rules
10.8.5
Setting Up Notifications for Corrective Actions
10.8.6
Providing Agent-side Response Actions
10.8.6.1
Specifying Commands and Scripts
10.8.6.2
Using Target Properties in Commands
10.8.6.3
Using Advanced Capabilities
10.8.7
Viewing the Details of a Corrective Action Execution
11
Monitoring Access Points Configured for a Target
11.1
Introduction to Monitoring Access Points
11.2
Viewing a List of Access Points Configured for a Target
11.3
Deleting Access Points Configured for a Target
11.4
Viewing the Capability Metric Map for a Target
11.5
Viewing the Best Access Point Implementers (and their History) for Various Operations Supported for a Target
11.6
Modifying or Reconfiguring the Monitoring Properties of the Access Points Configured for a Target
11.7
EM CLI Verbs for Managing the Access Points Configured for a Target
12
Always-On Monitoring
12.1
Prerequisites
12.1.1
Installing the Always-On Monitoring Repository Database
12.1.1.1
Database Sizing
12.1.1.2
Database Character Set Definition
12.1.2
Creating the Always-On Monitoring Repository User
12.1.2.1
Granting Required Privileges to the Always-On Monitoring Schema Owner
12.2
Best Practices
12.3
Installing Always-On Monitoring
12.3.1
Installing Always-On Monitoring from an Enterprise Manager Software Distribution
12.3.2
Installing Always-On Monitoring from Self-Update
12.3.3
Installing Multiple Always-On Monitoring Instances
12.4
Configuring Always-On Monitoring
12.4.1
Saving the Em Key
12.4.2
Using the Always-On Monitoring Configuration Assistant (EMSCA)
12.4.3
Removing the Em Key
12.4.4
Configuring Email Servers in Enterprise Manager
12.4.5
Configuring Downtime Contacts in Enterprise Manager
12.4.6
Synchronizing Always-On Monitoring with Enterprise Manager for the First Time
12.4.7
Configuring Enterprise Manager to Work with Always-On Monitoring
12.4.8
Enabling Notifications
12.4.9
Verifying the Always-On Monitoring Upload URL on Enterprise Manager
12.5
Controlling the Service
12.5.1
Always-On Monitoring Commands
12.6
Updating Always-On Monitoring
12.7
Data Maintenance
12.8
Controlling Always-On Monitoring Configuration Settings
12.9
Getting Performance Information
12.10
Modifiable Always-On Monitoring Properties
12.11
Creating an SSO Wallet and JKS for CA Certificates
12.12
Diagnosing Problems
12.13
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
12.13.1
Running Multiple Always-On Monitoring Instances
12.13.1.1
Shared Configuration Storage for the Multiple Instances
12.13.1.2
Notification Queues for Tracking Incoming Alerts
12.13.1.3
Task Scheduler System
12.13.1.4
Configuring an SLB
12.13.2
Always-On Monitoring Disaster Recovery
12.13.3
Setting Up Multiple Always-On Monitoring Instances
12.14
Uninstalling Always-On Monitoring
12.15
Configuring the Always-On Monitoring Application for Secure Communication Using the TLSv1.2 Protocol
Part II Discovery
13
Discovering and Adding Host and Non-Host Targets
13.1
Overview of Discovering and Adding Targets
13.1.1
Understanding Discovery Terminology
13.1.1.1
What are Targets and Managed Targets?
13.1.1.2
What is Discovery?
13.1.1.3
What is Promotion?
13.1.2
Options for Discovering Targets
13.1.3
Discovery and Monitoring in Enterprise Manager Lifecycle
13.1.4
Discovery and Monitoring Process
13.2
Discovering and Adding Host Targets
13.2.1
Configuring Autodiscovery of Host Targets
13.2.1.1
Prerequisites for Autodiscovering Host Targets
13.2.1.2
Setting Up Autodiscovery of Host Targets
13.2.2
Adding Host Targets Using the Manual Guided Discovery Process
13.3
Discovering and Adding Non-Host Targets
13.3.1
Configuring Autodiscovery of Non-Host Targets
13.3.2
Adding Non-Host Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
13.3.3
Adding Non-Host Targets By Using the Declarative Process
13.4
Discovering and Promoting Oracle Homes
13.5
Retrieving Deleted Targets
13.5.1
Retrieving Deleted Target Types
13.5.2
Retrieving Deleted Host and Corresponding Management Agent Targets
14
Discovering and Adding Database Targets
14.1
Enabling Autodiscovery of Database Targets
14.2
Discovering and Adding Container Database and Pluggable Database Targets
14.2.1
Discovering CDB and PDB Targets Using Autodiscovery
14.2.2
Adding CDB and PDB Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
14.2.3
Adding CDB and PDB Targets By Using the Declarative Process
14.3
Discovering and Adding Cluster Database Targets
14.3.1
Discovering Cluster Database Targets Using Autodiscovery
14.3.2
Adding Cluster Database Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
14.3.3
Adding Cluster Database Targets By Using the Declarative Process
14.4
Discovering and Adding Single Instance Database Targets
14.4.1
Discovering Single Instance Database Targets Using Autodiscovery
14.4.2
Adding Single Instance Database Targets Using Guided Discovery Process
14.4.3
Adding Single Instance Database Targets By Using the Declarative Process
14.5
Discovering and Adding Cluster Targets
14.5.1
Discovering Cluster Targets Using Autodiscovery
14.5.2
Adding Cluster Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
14.5.3
Adding Cluster Targets By Using the Declarative Process
14.6
Discovering and Adding Single Instance High Availability Service Targets
14.6.1
Discovering Single Instance High Availability Service Targets Using Autodiscovery
14.6.2
Adding Single Instance High Availability Service Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
14.6.3
Adding Single Instance High Availability Service Targets By Using the Declarative Process
14.7
Discovering and Adding Cluster Automatic Storage Management Targets
14.7.1
Discovering Cluster ASM Targets Using Autodiscovery
14.7.2
Adding Cluster ASM Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
14.7.3
Adding Cluster ASM Targets By Using the Declarative Process
14.8
Configuring a Target Database for Secure Monitoring
14.8.1
About Secure Monitoring of Databases
14.8.2
Configuring a Target Database for Secure Monitoring
14.9
Adding Connection Manager Targets By Using the Declarative Process
15
Discovering and Adding Middleware Targets
15.1
Discovering and Adding WebLogic Domains
15.1.1
Discovering WebLogic Domains Using Autodiscovery
15.1.2
Adding WebLogic Domains Using the Guided Discovery Process
15.1.3
Adding Multiple WebLogic Domains Using EM CLI
15.2
Discovering New or Modified Domain Members
15.2.1
Enabling Automatic Discovery of New Domain Members
15.2.2
Manually Checking for New or Modified Domain Members
15.3
Adding Standalone Oracle HTTP Servers
15.3.1
Meeting the Prerequisites
15.3.2
Adding Standalone Oracle HTTP Servers Using the Guided Discovery Process
15.4
Adding Exalytics Targets
15.4.1
Meeting the Prerequisites
15.4.2
Adding Exalytics System Targets Using the Guided Discovery Process
15.5
Removing Middleware Targets
16
Discovering, Promoting, and Adding System Infrastructure Targets
16.1
Discovering and Promoting Oracle MiniCluster
16.1.1
Prerequisites
16.1.2
Credentials Required for Oracle MiniCluster Discovery
16.1.3
Oracle MiniCluster Discovery
16.2
About Discovering, Promoting, and Adding System Infrastructure Targets
16.3
Discovering and Promoting Operating Systems
16.4
Discovering and Promoting Oracle Solaris Zones
16.5
Discovering and Promoting Oracle VM Server for SPARC
16.6
Discovering and Promoting Servers
16.6.1
Discover an ILOM Server Using the User Interface
16.6.2
Discover an ILOM Server Using the Command Line Interface
16.6.3
Change the Display Name of a Discovered ILOM Server
16.7
Discovering and Promoting Oracle SuperCluster
16.7.1
Prerequisites
16.7.2
Obtain the Discovery Precheck Script
16.7.3
Run the Discovery Precheck Script
16.7.4
Credentials Required for Oracle SuperCluster Discovery
16.7.5
Manual Prerequisite Verification
16.7.6
Oracle SuperCluster Discovery
16.8
Configuring Snmp traps for Supercluster and Minicluster monitored hosts
16.9
Discovering and Promoting PDUs
16.9.1
Verify PDU v1 NMS Table and Trap Hosts Setup Table
16.9.2
Verify PDU v2 NMS Table, SNMPv3 Access Table, and Trap Hosts Setup Table
16.9.3
PDU Discovery in the Enterprise Manager
16.9.4
Discovering a PDU Using Command Line Interface
16.10
Discovering and Promoting Oracle ZFS Storage
16.10.1
Discovering an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance using AKCLI
16.10.1.1
Target Members of an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
16.10.1.2
Target Members of an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Cluster
16.10.2
Discovering an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance using WebSvc
16.11
Discovering Fabrics
16.11.1
Discover an InfiniBand Network Switch
16.11.2
Discover an Ethernet Network Switch
16.11.3
Use the Command Line To Discover a Switch
16.12
Related Resources for Discovering and Promoting System Infrastructure Targets
Part III Hybrid Cloud Management
17
Enabling Hybrid Cloud Management
17.1
What is Oracle Hybrid Cloud?
17.2
Setting Up Hybrid Cloud Management in Three Steps
17.3
Hybrid Cloud Management Prerequisites and Basic Setup
17.3.1
Prerequisites for Configuring a Management Agent as a Gateway
17.3.2
Configuring a Management Agent as a Gateway
17.3.3
Prerequisites for Installing Agents on Oracle Cloud VMs
17.3.4
Installing an Agent on an Oracle Cloud VM
17.3.4.1
Installing an Agent on an Oracle Cloud VM Using EM CLI
17.3.4.2
Installing an Agent on an Oracle Cloud VM Using the Add Host Targets Wizard
17.4
Advanced Topics
17.4.1
Discovering and Monitoring Oracle Cloud Targets
17.4.2
Patching Cloud-based Agents and Gateways
17.4.3
Configuring an External Proxy to Enable Gateways to Communicate with the Oracle Cloud
17.4.4
Performing Additional Hybrid Cloud Management Tasks
17.4.4.1
Configuring Cloud-based Agents for High Availability
17.4.4.2
Disabling Gateways
17.4.4.3
Disassociating Gateways from a Cloud-based Agent
17.4.4.4
Decommissioning Cloud-based Agents
17.4.5
Troubleshooting Cloud-based Management Agents
17.4.6
Frequently Asked Questions About Hybrid Cloud Management
17.4.6.1
Can I deploy more than one Agent on the same Oracle Cloud virtual host?
17.4.6.2
Can I deinstall or deconfigure a Gateway without deinstalling an associated Cloud-based Agent?
17.4.6.3
How do I relocate the Gateway to another host without deinstalling anything else?
17.4.6.4
How can I redistribute my connections once I have added the Gateways? Does it need reconfiguration?
17.4.6.5
After an Oracle PaaS instance is decommissioned, what happens to the Cloud-based Agent and the related targets?
17.4.6.6
If I change my SSH keys on Oracle Cloud, what should I do in Enterprise Manager?
17.4.6.7
What are the guidelines for sizing the number of Gateways? What is the indication that my gateway Agent is overloaded?
17.4.6.8
Once the first Gateway is up after being patched, will it monitor the Cloud-based Agents?
17.4.6.9
What are the user restrictions on Cloud-based Agents and the targets on Oracle Cloud?
17.4.6.10
On what operating system can I deploy a Cloud-based Agent and a Gateway?
17.5
List of Unsupported Features
18
Deploying JVMD for Hybrid Cloud
18.1
Overview of Deploying JVMD for Hybrid Cloud
18.2
Prerequisites for Deploying JVMD Agents on Oracle Cloud Virtual Hosts
18.3
Deploying JVMD Agents on Oracle Cloud Virtual Hosts
18.4
Changing the Default JVMD End Point for Hybrid Cloud Gateway Agents
18.5
After Deploying JVMD Agents on Oracle Cloud Virtual Hosts
Part IV Administering Cloud Control
19
Maintaining Enterprise Manager
19.1
Overview: Managing the Manager
19.2
Health Overview
19.2.1
Viewing Enterprise Manager Topology and Charts
19.2.2
Determining Enterprise Manager Page Performance
19.3
Repository
19.3.1
Repository Tab
19.3.2
Metrics Tab
19.3.3
Schema Tab
19.4
Controlling and Configuring Management Agents
19.4.1
Manage Cloud Control Agents Page
19.4.2
Agent Home Page
19.4.3
Controlling a Single Agent
19.4.4
Configuring Single Management Agents
19.4.5
Controlling Multiple Management Agents
19.4.6
Configuring Multiple Agents
19.4.7
Upgrading Multiple Management Agents
19.5
Management Servers
20
Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Management Repository
20.1
Management Repository Deployment Guidelines
20.2
Management Repository Data Retention Policies
20.2.1
Management Repository Default Aggregation and Purging Policies
20.2.2
Management Repository Default Aggregation and Purging Policies for Other Management Data
20.2.3
Modifying the Default Aggregation and Purging Policies
20.2.4
How to Modify the Retention Period of Job History
20.2.5
DBMS_SCHEDULER Troubleshooting
20.3
Dropping and Recreating the Management Repository
20.3.1
Dropping the Management Repository
20.3.2
Recreating the Management Repository
20.3.2.1
Using a Connect Descriptor to Identify the Management Repository Database
20.4
Troubleshooting Management Repository Creation Errors
20.4.1
Package Body Does Not Exist Error While Creating the Management Repository
20.4.2
Server Connection Hung Error While Creating the Management Repository
20.4.3
General Troubleshooting Techniques for Creating the Management Repository
20.5
Cross Platform Enterprise Manager Repository Migration
20.5.1
Common Prerequisites
20.5.2
Methodologies
20.5.2.1
Using Cross Platform Transportable Database
20.5.2.2
Migration Using Physical Standby
20.5.3
Post Migration Verification
21
Updating Cloud Control
21.1
Using Self Update
21.1.1
What Can Be Updated?
21.2
Setting Up Self Update
21.2.1
Setting Up Enterprise Manager Self Update Mode
21.2.2
Assigning Self Update Privileges to Users
21.2.3
Setting Up the Software Library
21.2.4
Setting My Oracle Support Preferred Credentials
21.2.5
Registering the Proxy Details for My Oracle Support
21.2.6
Setting Up the EM CLI Utility (Optional)
21.3
Applying an Update
21.3.1
Applying an Update in Online Mode
21.3.2
Applying an Update in Offline Mode
21.4
Accessing Informational Updates
21.5
Acquiring or Updating Management Agent Software
22
Configuring a Software Library
22.1
Overview of Software Library
22.2
Users, Roles, and Privileges
22.3
What's New in Software Library
22.4
Performing Software Library Tasks Using EM CLI Verbs or in Graphical Mode
22.5
Software Library Storage
22.5.1
Upload File Locations
22.5.2
Referenced File Location
22.5.3
Cache Nodes
22.6
Prerequisites for Configuring Software Library
22.7
Configuring Software Library Storage Location
22.7.1
Configuring an OMS Shared File system Location
22.7.2
Configuring an OMS Agent File system Location
22.7.3
Configuring a Referenced File Location
22.8
Configuring Software Library on a Multi-OMS System
22.9
Software Library Cache Nodes
22.9.1
Configuring the Cache Nodes
22.9.1.1
Adding Cache Nodes
22.9.1.2
Editing the Cache Nodes
22.9.1.3
Deleting the Cache Nodes
22.9.1.4
Activating or Deactivating the Cache Nodes
22.9.1.5
Clearing the Cache Nodes
22.9.1.6
Synchronizing the Cache Nodes
22.9.2
Exporting and Importing Files for Cache Nodes
22.9.2.1
Export
22.9.2.2
Import
22.10
Software Library File Transfers
22.11
Using Software Library Entities
22.12
Tasks Performed Using the Software Library Home Page
22.12.1
Organizing Entities
22.12.2
Creating Entities
22.12.2.1
Creating Generic Components
22.12.2.2
Creating Directives
22.12.3
Customizing Entities
22.12.4
Managing Entities
22.12.4.1
Accessing Software Library Home Page
22.12.4.2
Accessing Software Library Administration Page
22.12.4.3
Granting or Revoking Privileges
22.12.4.4
Moving Entities
22.12.4.5
Changing Entity Maturity
22.12.4.6
Adding Notes to Entities
22.12.4.7
Adding Attachments to Entities
22.12.4.8
Viewing, Editing, and Deleting Entities
22.12.4.9
Purging Deleted Entities
22.12.4.10
Searching Entities
22.12.4.10.1
Performing Basic and Advanced Searches
22.12.4.10.2
Saving Searches
22.12.4.10.3
Retrieving Saved Searches
22.12.4.10.4
Managing Saved Searches
22.12.4.11
Exporting Entities
22.12.4.12
Importing Entities
22.12.5
Staging Entities
22.13
Maintaining Software Library
22.13.1
Periodic Maintenance Tasks
22.13.2
Re-Importing Oracle Owned Entity Files
22.13.3
Removing (and Migrating) Software Library Storage Location
22.13.4
Removing a Referenced Storage Location
22.13.5
Deactivating and Activating a Storage Location
22.13.6
Scheduling Purge Job
22.13.7
Backing Up Software Library
23
Managing Plug-Ins
23.1
Getting Started
23.2
Introduction to Plug-ins
23.2.1
Enterprise Manager Extensibility Paradigm
23.2.2
Plug-Ins
23.2.3
Plug-Ins Deployed by Default
23.2.4
Plug-In Releases
23.2.5
Obsolete and Deprecated Plug-ins
23.2.6
Roles Required to Manage Plug-Ins
23.3
Workflow of Plug-In Deployment
23.4
Introduction to Plug-In Manager
23.4.1
Accessing Plug-In Manager
23.4.2
Performing Operations Using Plug-In Manager
23.5
Knowing Your Plug-Ins
23.5.1
Customizing Your View
23.5.1.1
Customizing Displayed Plug-Ins
23.5.1.2
Customizing Displayed Columns
23.5.2
Checking the Availability of Plug-Ins
23.5.3
Viewing Information about Plug-Ins
23.5.3.1
Differentiating Plug-In Releases from Enterprise Manager Platform Releases
23.5.3.2
Identifying Plug-In ID
23.5.3.3
Viewing Targets and Operating Systems Certified for Deployed Plug-Ins
23.5.3.4
Viewing Plug-In Dependencies
23.5.3.5
Verifying Deployed Plug-Ins
23.6
Downloading, Deploying, and Upgrading Plug-Ins
23.6.1
Downloading Plug-Ins
23.6.1.1
Downloading Plug-Ins in Online Mode
23.6.1.2
Downloading Plug-Ins in Offline Mode
23.6.1.3
Importing Catalog Archives
23.6.1.4
Importing Plug-In Archives
23.6.2
Deploying Plug-Ins to Oracle Management Service (Reduce OMS Restart time and Downtime)
23.6.2.1
Tracking the Deployment Status of Plug-Ins on Oracle Management Service
23.6.3
Upgrading Plug-Ins Deployed to Oracle Management Service
23.6.4
Deploying Plug-Ins on Oracle Management Agent
23.6.4.1
Tracking the Deployment Status of Plug-Ins on Oracle Management Agent
23.6.5
Upgrading Plug-Ins Deployed to Oracle Management Agent
23.7
Undeploying Plug-Ins
23.7.1
Undeploying Plug-Ins from Oracle Management Service
23.7.2
Undeploying Plug-Ins from Oracle Management Agent
23.8
Advanced Operations with Plug-Ins
23.8.1
Re-deploying Plug-Ins on Oracle Management Agent
23.8.2
Deploying Plug-In Patches While Deploying or Upgrading Management Agent (Create Custom Plug-In Update)
23.8.2.1
Creating Custom Plug-In Update Using EMCLI
23.8.2.2
Creating Custom Plug-In Update Using EDK
23.9
Troubleshooting
23.9.1
Understanding Plug-In Homes
23.9.2
Troubleshooting OMS Plug-In Deployment and Upgrade Issues
23.9.2.1
Troubleshooting OMS Plug-In Deployment Issues
23.9.2.2
Rollback and Resume OMS Plug-In Upgrade
23.9.3
Troubleshooting Management Agent Plug-In Deployment, Upgrade, and Blocked Issues
23.9.3.1
Troubleshooting Management Agent Plug-In Deployment Issues
23.9.3.2
Troubleshooting Management Agent Plug-In Upgrade Issues
23.9.3.3
Resolving a Plug-in Mismatch on a Management Agent
23.9.3.4
Running a Plug-in Mismatch Job to Resolve All Plug-in Mismatches
24
Patching Oracle Management Service and the Repository
24.1
OMSPatcher Automation
24.1.1
Supported OMS Configurations and OMSPatcher Patchability
24.1.2
NextGen OUI Inventory Configurations
24.1.3
Supported Patch Format
24.1.4
Supported Patching Methodologies
24.2
Required OMSPatcher Parameters
24.2.1
Creating a Property File
24.3
Prerequisites for Running OMSPatcher
24.4
Using OMSPatcher
24.4.1
My Oracle Support: Searching for Patches
24.4.2
Running
omspatcher apply
24.4.3
Running
omspatcher rollback
24.4.4
Running
omspatcher lspatches
24.4.5
Running
omspatcher version
24.4.6
Patching a Standby OMS System
24.5
OMSPatcher Command Syntax
24.5.1
Apply
24.5.2
Rollback
24.5.3
lspatches
24.5.4
version
24.5.5
checkApplicable
24.5.6
saveConfigurationSnapshot
24.6
Troubleshooting
24.6.1
OMSPatcher Troubleshooting Architecture
24.6.2
OMSPatcher Log Management Architecture
24.6.3
Logs for Oracle Support
24.6.4
OMSPatcher: Cases Analysis, Error Codes, and Remedies/Suggestions
24.6.5
OMSPatcher: External Utilities Error Codes
24.6.6
Special Error Cases for OMSPatcher OMS Automation
24.6.7
Multi-OMS Execution for UNIX based Systems
24.7
Features in OMSPatcher
24.7.1
Resume capability in Single-OMS Configuration
24.7.2
Resume Capability in Multi-OMS Configuration
25
Patching Oracle Management Agents
25.1
Overview
25.2
Automated Management Agent Patching Using Patch Plans (Recommended)
25.2.1
Advantages of Automated Management Agent Patching
25.2.2
Accessing the Patches and Updates Page
25.2.3
Viewing Patch Recommendations
25.2.4
Searching for Patches
25.2.4.1
Searching for Patches On My Oracle Support
25.2.4.2
Searching for Patches in Software Library
25.2.5
Applying Management Agent Patches
25.2.6
Verifying the Applied Management Agent Patches
25.2.7
Management Agent Patching Errors
25.2.7.1
Oracle Home Credentials Are Not Set
25.2.7.2
Management Agent Target Is Down
25.2.7.3
Patch Conflicts Are Detected
25.2.7.4
User Is Not a Super User
25.2.7.5
Patch Is Not Staged or Found
25.3
Manual Management Agent Patching
26
Personalizing Cloud Control
26.1
Personalizing a Cloud Control Page
26.2
Customizing a Region
26.3
Setting Your Homepage
26.4
Setting Pop-Up Message Preferences
27
Administering Enterprise Manager Using EMCTL Commands
27.1
Executing EMCTL Commands
27.2
Guidelines for Starting Multiple Enterprise Manager Components on a Single Host
27.3
Starting and Stopping Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
27.3.1
Starting Cloud Control and All Its Components
27.3.2
Stopping Cloud Control and All Its Components
27.4
Services That Are Started with Oracle Management Service Startup
27.5
Starting and Stopping the Oracle Management Service and Management Agent on Windows
27.6
Reevaluating Metric Collections Using EMCTL Commands
27.7
Specifying New Target Monitoring Credentials in Enterprise Manager
27.8
EMCTL Commands for OMS
27.9
EMCTL Commands for Management Agent
27.10
EMCTL Security Commands
27.10.1
EMCTL Secure Commands
27.10.2
Security diagnostic commands
27.10.3
EMCTL EM Key Commands
27.10.4
Configuring Authentication
27.10.4.1
Configuring OSSO Authentication
27.10.4.2
Configuring OAM Authentication
27.10.4.3
Configuring LDAP (OID and AD) Authentication
27.10.4.4
Configuring Repository Authentication (Default Authentication)
27.11
EMCTL HAConfig Commands
27.12
EMCTL Resync Commands
27.13
EMCTL Connector Command
27.14
EMCTL Patch Repository Commands
27.15
EMCTL Commands for Windows NT
27.16
EMCTL Partool Commands
27.17
EMCTL Plug-in Commands
27.18
EMCTL Command to Sync with OPSS Policy Store
27.19
Troubleshooting Oracle Management Service Startup Errors
27.20
Troubleshooting Management Agent Startup Errors
27.20.1
Management Agent starts up but is not ready
27.20.2
Management Agent fails to start due to time zone mismatch between agent and OMS
27.20.3
Management Agent fails to start due to possible port conflict
27.20.4
Management Agent fails to start due to failure of securing or unsecuring
27.21
Using emctl.log File to Troubleshoot
28
Locating and Configuring Enterprise Manager Log Files
28.1
Managing Log Files
28.1.1
Viewing Log Files and Their Messages
28.1.1.1
Restricting Access to the View Log Messages Menu Item and Functionality
28.1.1.2
Registering Additional Log Files
28.1.2
Searching Log Files
28.1.2.1
Searching Log Files: Basic Searches
28.1.2.2
Searching Log Files: Advanced Searches
28.1.3
Downloading Log Files
28.2
Managing Saved Searches
28.2.1
Saving Searches
28.2.2
Retrieving Saved Searches
28.2.3
Managing Saved Searches
28.3
Locating Management Agent Log and Trace Files
28.3.1
About the Management Agent Log and Trace Files
28.3.1.1
Structure of Agent Log Files
28.3.2
Locating the Management Agent Log and Trace Files
28.3.3
Setting Oracle Management Agent Log Levels
28.3.3.1
Modifying the Default Logging Level
28.3.3.2
Setting gcagent.log
28.3.3.3
Setting gcagent_error.log
28.3.3.4
Setting the Log Level for Individual Classes and Packages
28.3.3.5
Setting gcagent_mdu.log
28.3.3.6
Setting the TRACE Level
28.4
Locating and Configuring Oracle Management Service Log and Trace Files
28.4.1
About the Oracle Management Service Log and Trace Files
28.4.2
Locating Oracle Management Service Log and Trace Files
28.4.3
Controlling the Size and Number of Oracle Management Service Log and Trace Files
28.4.4
Controlling the Contents of the Oracle Management Service Trace File
28.4.5
Controlling the Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle HTTP Server Log Files
28.5
Monitoring Log Files
28.5.1
About Log Viewer
28.5.2
Overview of WebLogic Server and Application Deployment Log File Monitoring
28.5.3
Enabling Log File Monitoring
28.5.4
Configuring Log File Monitoring
28.5.5
Viewing Alerts from Log File Monitoring
28.6
Configuring Log Archive Locations
29
Configuring and Using Services
29.1
Introduction to Services
29.1.1
Defining Services in Enterprise Manager
29.2
Creating a Service
29.2.1
Creating a Generic Service - Test Based
29.2.2
Creating a Generic Service - System Based
29.2.3
Creating an Aggregate Service
29.3
Monitoring a Service
29.3.1
Viewing the Generic / Aggregate Service Home Page
29.3.2
Viewing the Performance / Incidents Page
29.3.3
Viewing the SLA Dashboard
29.3.4
Viewing the Test Summary
29.3.5
Viewing the Service Topology
29.3.6
Sub Services
29.4
Configuring a Service
29.4.1
Availability Definition (Generic and Aggregate Service)
29.4.2
Root Cause Analysis Configuration
29.4.2.1
Getting the Most From Root Cause Analysis
29.4.3
System Association
29.4.4
Monitoring Settings
29.4.5
Service Tests and Beacons
29.4.5.1
Defining Additional Service Tests
29.4.5.2
Deploying and Using Beacons
29.4.5.3
Configuring the Beacons
29.4.5.4
Creating an ATS Service Test Using OATS Load Script
29.4.5.4.1
Creating a Self Contained Zip File
29.4.5.4.2
Creating an ATS Service Test
29.4.5.4.3
Troubleshooting ATS Service Test Playback Issues
29.4.5.4.4
Using Databanking and Parameterization
29.4.5.4.5
Parameterizing URLs
29.4.5.4.6
Success or Failure Validation
29.4.5.4.7
Using Beacon Override
29.4.5.4.8
Updating the Databank File
29.4.5.4.9
Using SLM Header for RUEI Integration
29.4.6
Performance Metrics
29.4.6.1
Rule Based Target List
29.4.6.2
Static Based Target List
29.4.7
Usage Metrics
29.5
Using the Transaction Recorder
29.6
Setting Up and Using Service Level Agreements
29.6.1
Actionable Item Rules for SLAs
29.6.2
Creating a Service Level Objective
29.6.3
Lifecycle of an SLA
29.6.4
Viewing the Status of SLAs for a Service
29.6.5
Defining Custom SLA Business Calendars
29.7
Using the Services Dashboard
29.7.1
Viewing the All Dashboards Page
29.7.2
Viewing the Dashboard Details Page
29.7.3
Customizing and Personalizing the Dashboard
29.7.4
Viewing the Dashboard Service Details Page
29.8
Using the Test Repository
29.8.1
Viewing the Test Repository
29.8.2
Editing an ATS Script
29.9
Configuring Service Levels
29.9.1
Defining Service Level Rules
29.9.2
Viewing Service Level Details
29.10
Configuring a Service Using the Command Line Interface
29.11
Troubleshooting Service Tests
29.11.1
Verifying and Troubleshooting Forms Transactions
29.11.1.1
Troubleshooting Forms Transaction Playback
29.11.1.2
Troubleshooting Forms Transaction Recording
29.11.2
Verifying and Troubleshooting Web Transactions
30
Introducing Enterprise Manager Support for SNMP
30.1
Benefits of SNMP Support
30.2
About the SNMP Management Station
30.3
How Enterprise Manager Supports SNMP
30.4
Sending SNMP Trap Notifications
30.4.1
About the Management Information Base (MIB)
30.5
Monitoring External Devices Using SNMP
30.5.1
About SNMP Receivelets
30.5.2
About SNMP Fetchlets
30.6
About Metric Extensions
Part V Systems Infrastructure
31
Working with Systems Infrastructure Targets
31.1
Overview of Enterprise Manager Systems Infrastructure
31.1.1
About Monitoring for the Systems Infrastructure Targets
31.1.2
About Dynamic Views for the Systems Infrastructure Targets
31.2
Overview of the Systems Infrastructure User Interface
31.2.1
About the Target Home Page
31.2.2
About the Virtualization Home Page
31.2.3
About the Oracle Engineered Systems Home Page
31.3
Creating Roles for Systems Infrastructure Administration
31.4
Related Resources for Systems Infrastructure Targets
32
Managing Networks
32.1
Get Started with Managing Networks
32.2
Location of Network Information in the User Interface
32.3
Actions for Network Management
32.4
View Topology
32.5
Fabric
32.5.1
About Fabrics
32.5.2
View Information About Fabrics
32.5.3
About Fabric Information
32.5.4
About Performance of Fabrics
32.5.5
Delete a Fabric
32.6
Datalinks
32.6.1
About Datalinks
32.6.2
View Information About Datalinks
32.7
Networks
32.7.1
About Networks
32.7.2
View Information About Networks
32.7.3
Delete Networks
32.7.4
View Network Details of a Host Target
32.8
Related Resources for Network Management
33
Managing Storage
33.1
Get Started with Managing Storage
33.2
Location of Storage Information in the User Interface
33.3
Actions for Storage Management
33.4
About Storage Appliance Dashboard
33.4.1
Viewing the Storage Appliance Dashboard
33.4.2
Viewing Storage Appliance Cluster Dashboard
33.5
About Photorealistic Image
33.5.1
Viewing the Photorealistic Image
33.6
About Summary
33.6.1
Viewing the Summary
33.7
About Projects
33.7.1
Viewing the Projects
33.8
About Charts
33.8.1
Viewing Resources Chart
33.8.2
Viewing Devices Chart
33.8.3
Viewing SAN Usage Chart
33.8.4
Viewing NAS Usage Chart
33.8.5
Viewing ZFS Storage Pools Chart
33.9
About Host Storage Information
33.9.1
Disks of a Host
33.9.1.1
Viewing Disks of a Host
33.9.2
Filesystems of a Host
33.9.2.1
Viewing Filesystems of a Host
33.9.3
SAN Configuration of a Host
33.9.3.1
Viewing SAN Configuration of a Host
33.9.4
Linux Volume Groups of a Host
33.9.4.1
Viewing Linux Volume Groups of a Host
33.9.5
ZFS Storage Pools of a Host
33.9.5.1
Viewing ZFS Storage Pools of a Host
33.10
About Storage Configuration Topology
33.10.1
Viewing Storage Configuration Topology
33.11
About Storage Metrics
33.11.1
Viewing Storage Performance Metrics
33.11.2
Viewing Storage Configuration Metrics
33.11.3
Changing Metric Collection
33.12
About Storage Cluster Membership
33.12.1
Viewing Storage Cluster Membership
33.13
About Storage Resource Deletion
33.13.1
Removing a Storage Resource
33.13.2
Removing an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Cluster
33.14
Using Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance in Engineered Systems
33.15
Related Resources for Storage
34
Monitoring Servers
34.1
Get Started With Server Management
34.2
Location of Server Information in the UI
34.3
Actions for Server Management
34.4
About the Hardware Dashboard
34.4.1
About Basic Hardware Information
34.4.2
About Open Incidents
34.4.3
About Fan and Temperature Information
34.4.4
About Power Usage
34.4.5
About Core Information
34.4.6
About the Last Configuration Change and Incident
34.5
Viewing the Hardware Dashboard
34.6
About Server Metrics
34.7
Viewing Server Metrics
34.8
About the Photorealistic Image of the Hardware
34.9
Viewing the Photorealistic Image of the Hardware
34.10
About the Logical View
34.10.1
About CPU Information
34.10.2
About Memory Information
34.10.3
About Power Information
34.10.4
About Fan Information
34.10.5
About Storage Information
34.10.6
About Disk Controller Information
34.10.7
About Disk Expander Information
34.10.8
About Network Ports Information
34.10.9
About PCI Devices Information
34.10.10
About PDOMs Information
34.10.11
About DCUs Information
34.11
Viewing the Logical View
34.12
About Energy Consumption
34.13
Viewing the Energy Consumption
34.14
About Network Connectivity
34.14.1
About Network Interfaces
34.14.2
About Network Data Links
34.14.3
About Network Ports
34.15
Viewing the Network Connectivity
34.16
About the Service Processor Configuration
34.16.1
About Firmware Information
34.16.2
About the Host Policy Configuration
34.16.3
About the Power On Self Test Configuration
34.16.4
About the SP Alert Configuration
34.16.5
About the DNS & NTP Information
34.17
Viewing the Service Processor Configuration
34.18
Managing Metrics and Incident Notifications
34.18.1
Viewing Metric Collection Errors
34.18.2
Editing Metric and Collection Settings
34.18.3
Editing a Monitoring Configuration
34.18.4
Suspending Monitoring Notifications
34.18.5
Suspending Monitoring for Maintenance
34.18.6
Ending a Monitoring Brownout or Blackout
34.19
Administering Servers
34.19.1
Viewing Compliance
34.19.2
Identifying Changes in a Server Configuration
34.19.3
Editing Server Administrator Access
34.19.4
Adding a Server to a Group
34.19.5
Editing Server Properties
34.20
Related Resources for Server Management
35
Managing the PDU
35.1
Getting Started with PDU Management
35.2
Location of PDU Information in the User Interface
35.3
Actions for PDU
35.4
PDU Version Identification
35.5
Viewing the PDU Information
35.5.1
Physical View of the PDU
35.5.2
PDU Load View
35.6
Changing PDU Monitoring Credentials
35.6.1
Change the HTTP Credentials
35.6.2
Changing the SNMP Credentials
35.7
PDU Test Connection and Metric Collection Error Troubleshooting
35.7.1
Test Connection Error Identification
35.7.2
Metric Collection Error Identification
35.7.3
Metric Recollection
35.8
PDU Error States
35.9
PDU Alerts and Configuration
35.9.1
Configuring Alerts in a PDU
35.9.2
Configuring Alerts in Enterprise Manager
35.9.3
Viewing Alert Incidents
35.9.4
SNMP Traps Forwarding
35.10
Related Resources for PDU Management
36
Managing the Rack
36.1
Getting Started with Rack Management
36.2
Location of Rack Information in the User Interface
36.3
Actions for Rack
36.4
Target Navigation for Rack Management
36.5
Creating a Rack
36.5.1
Creating a Rack Using Command Line Interface
36.5.1.1
Properties of Rack
36.6
Viewing the Rack Information
36.6.1
Physical View of the Rack
36.6.2
Firmware View
36.6.3
Load View
36.6.4
Temperature View
36.7
Placing Targets in the Rack
36.7.1
Place a Target in the Rack
36.7.2
Edit Target Placement in the Rack
36.7.3
Remove a Target from the Rack
36.7.4
Delete a Rack
36.8
Related Resources for Rack Management
37
Managing Oracle MiniCluster
37.1
Getting Started with Oracle MiniCluster
37.2
Actions for Oracle MiniCluster
37.3
Target Navigation for Oracle MiniCluster
37.4
Viewing the Oracle MiniCluster System
37.4.1
Physical View of Oracle MiniCluster
37.4.2
Storage View of Oracle MiniCluster
37.4.3
Virtualization Management on the Oracle MiniCluster System
37.5
Related Resources for Oracle MiniCluster
38
Managing Oracle SuperCluster
38.1
Getting Started with Oracle SuperCluster
38.2
Actions for Oracle SuperCluster
38.3
Target Navigation for Oracle SuperCluster
38.4
Viewing the Oracle SuperCluster System
38.4.1
Physical View of Oracle SuperCluster
38.4.2
Virtualization Management on the Oracle SuperCluster System
38.5
Task Title
38.6
Related Resources for Oracle SuperCluster
39
Monitoring Oracle Operating Systems
39.1
Get Started with Monitoring Oracle Operating Systems
39.2
Location of Oracle Operating System Information in the UI
39.3
Features of Operating Systems
39.4
About the Dashboard for all Hosts
39.4.1
Viewing the Dashboard of all Hosts
39.5
How to Get Information About a Specific Host
39.5.1
Viewing the Host Target Home Page
39.5.2
About Dashlets for Hosts
39.5.3
About Tabs for Hosts
39.6
About the Host Menu
39.6.1
Viewing the Host Monitoring Menu
39.7
About Open Incidents
39.7.1
Viewing Open Incidents
39.7.2
Identifying Changes in an OS Configuration
39.8
Overview of Performance and Resource Metrics
39.8.1
About CPU Utilization
39.8.2
Viewing CPU Metrics
39.8.3
About CPU Threads Utilization
39.8.4
About Processor Group Utilization for Oracle Solaris 11
39.9
About Host Memory
39.9.1
Viewing Host Memory Utilization
39.9.2
Viewing Memory and Swap File Details
39.9.3
Viewing Memory Details for a Host
39.10
Viewing Host Storage
39.11
Viewing Network Connectivity
39.12
About Boot Environments
39.12.1
Viewing Oracle Solaris Boot Environments
39.13
Viewing Running Host Processes
39.14
Viewing Managed Host Services
39.15
Working with Host Metrics
39.15.1
Viewing CPU, Memory, and Disk Details for a Host
39.15.2
Viewing a Host's Program Resource Utilization
39.15.3
Viewing All Metrics
39.16
Managing Metrics and Incident Notifications for Hosts
39.16.1
Viewing Host Metric Collection Error
39.16.2
Editing Metric and Collection Settings for Hosts
39.17
About Host Compliance
39.17.1
Viewing Compliance Frameworks
39.17.2
Viewing Compliance Standards
39.17.3
Viewing Target Compliance
39.18
Related Resources for Operating Systems
40
Monitoring Oracle Solaris Zones
40.1
Get Started with Monitoring Oracle Solaris Zones
40.2
Location of Oracle Solaris Zone Information in the UI
40.3
Actions for Zones
40.4
Target Navigation for Zones
40.5
How to Get Information About a Zone
40.6
Working with Zone Platform Metrics
40.6.1
Viewing Zone Platform Metrics
40.7
Working with Zone-Specific Metrics
40.7.1
Viewing a Summary of Zone Metrics
40.7.2
Viewing Zone CPU and Memory Metrics
40.8
Viewing All Metrics
40.9
Working with Incidents for Zones
40.9.1
About Incidents for Zones
40.9.2
Viewing Open Incidents for Zones
40.10
Managing Metrics and Incident Notifications for Zones
40.10.1
Viewing Zone Metric Collection Errors
40.10.2
Editing Metric and Collection Settings for Zones
40.10.3
Editing a Zone's Monitoring Configuration
40.10.4
Suspending Monitoring Notifications for Zones
40.10.5
Suspending Zone Monitoring for Maintenance
40.10.6
Ending a Monitoring Brownout or Blackout for Zones
40.11
Administering Zones
40.11.1
Viewing Zone Compliance
40.11.2
Identifying Changes in a Zone Configuration
40.11.3
Editing Zone Administrator Access
40.11.4
Adding a Zone to a Group
40.11.5
Editing Zone Properties
40.12
Additional Resources for Oracle Solaris Zones
41
Monitoring Oracle VM Server for SPARC
41.1
Getting Started With Oracle VM Server for SPARC Virtualization
41.1.1
Terminology
41.1.2
Logical Domains
41.2
Location of Oracle VM Server for SPARC Information in the UI
41.3
Actions for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
41.4
Target Navigation for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
41.5
Supported Versions
41.6
Viewing all Oracle VM Server for SPARC Virtualization Platforms
41.7
About Virtualization Platform Information
41.7.1
Viewing the Virtualization Platform Basic Information
41.7.2
About the Virtualization Platform's Guest Summary
41.7.3
Viewing the Virtualization Platform Guest Summary
41.7.4
About the Virtualization Platform's Services
41.7.5
Viewing the Virtualization Platform Services
41.7.6
About the Virtualization Platform's vCPU and Core Allocation
41.7.7
Viewing the Virtualization Platform vCPU and Core Allocation
41.7.8
About Virtualization Platform Metrics
41.7.9
Viewing Platform Metrics
41.8
Zones within a Logical Domain
41.8.1
Viewing Zones in a Logical Domain
41.9
About Logical Domain Information
41.9.1
Viewing the Logical Domain's Basic Information
41.9.2
About the Virtual Server Summary Information
41.9.3
Viewing the Virtual Server Summary Information
41.9.4
About the Virtual Server Power and CPU Usage Charts
41.9.5
Viewing the Virtual Server Power and CPU Usage Charts
41.10
Managing Metrics and Incident Notifications
41.10.1
Viewing Metric Collection Errors
41.10.2
Editing Metric and Collection Settings
41.10.3
Editing a Monitoring Configuration
41.10.4
Suspending Monitoring Notifications
41.10.5
Suspending Monitoring for Maintenance
41.10.6
Ending a Monitoring Brownout or Blackout
41.11
Administering Oracle VM Server for SPARC
41.11.1
Viewing Compliance
41.11.2
Identifying Changes in a Virtual Server Configuration
41.11.3
Editing Virtual Server Administrator Access
41.11.4
Adding a Virtual Server to a Group
41.11.5
Editing Virtual Server Properties
41.12
Related Resources for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
42
Provisioning Zones with Oracle Database on Database Domains
42.1
Prerequisites
42.2
Create a DB Zones Cluster
42.3
Scale Up Cluster
42.4
Scale Down Cluster
42.5
Delete Cluster
Part VI Generating Reports
43
Using Information Publisher
43.1
About Information Publisher
43.2
Out-of-Box Report Definitions
43.3
Custom Reports
43.3.1
Creating Custom Reports
43.3.2
Report Parameters
43.3.3
Report Elements
43.4
Scheduling Reports
43.4.1
Flexible Schedules
43.4.2
Storing and Purging Report Copies
43.4.3
E-mailing Reports
43.5
Sharing Reports
44
Creating Usage Tracking Reports
44.1
Usage Tracking Reports
44.2
Collecting Data for Database Usage Tracking
44.2.1
Setting Database Usage Tracking Credentials
44.2.2
Enabling/Disabling the Metric Collection using Monitoring Templates
44.2.3
Enabling/Disabling the Metric Collection using the Command Line Interface
44.2.3.1
Setting up EM CLI login
44.2.3.2
Enabling/disabling the metric collection
44.2.3.3
Using EM CLI to list all the database targets
44.2.3.4
Using SQL to verify collection status
44.2.4
Creating a Database Usage Tracking Report
44.3
Generating Database Usage Tracking Report
44.3.1
Configuring Business Intelligence Publisher (BI Publisher)
44.3.2
Running Usage Tracking Reports:
44.4
Database Usage Tracking Summary Report
44.5
Generating the Fusion Middleware Usage Tracking Summary Report
44.6
Host Usage Tracking Reports
44.6.1
Generating the Host Usage Tracking Summary Report
44.6.2
Generating the Host Usage Tracking Details Report
Part VII Accessing Enterprise Manager via Mobile Devices
45
Remote Access To Enterprise Manager
45.1
Reviewing System Requirements
45.2
Performing Initial Setup
45.3
Connecting the First Time
45.4
Encountering the Login Screen
45.5
Managing Settings
45.6
Using Cloud Control Mobile in Incident Manager
45.7
Working in Cloud Control Mobile
45.7.1
Viewing Incidents and Problems
45.7.2
Changing Views
45.7.3
Performing Actions
45.8
Learning Tips and Tricks
45.9
Connecting to Enterprise Manager Desktop Version
Part VIII Appendixes
A
Interpreting Variables of the Enterprise Manager MIB
A.1
oraEMNGEvent
A.1.1
oraEMNGEventIndex
A.1.2
oraEMNGEventNotifType
A.1.3
oraEMNGEventMessage
A.1.4
oraEMNGEventMessageURL
A.1.5
oraEMNGEventSeverity
A.1.6
oraEMNGEventSeverityCode
A.1.7
oraEMNGEventRepeatCount
A.1.8
oraEMNGEventActionMsg
A.1.9
oraEMNGEventOccurrenceTime
A.1.10
oraEMNGEventReportedTime
A.1.11
oraEMNGEventCategories
A.1.12
oraEMNGEventCategoryCodes
A.1.13
oraEMNGEventType
A.1.14
oraEMNGEventName
A.1.15
oraEMNGAssocIncidentId
A.1.16
oraEMNGAssocIncidentOwner
A.1.17
oraEMNGAssocIncidentAcked
A.1.18
oraEMNGAssocIncidentStatus
A.1.19
oraEMNGAssocIncidentPriority
A.1.20
oraEMNGAssocIncidentEscLevel
A.1.21
oraEMNGEventTargetName
A.1.22
oraEMNGEventTargetNameURL
A.1.23
oraEMNGEventTargetType
A.1.24
oraEMNGEventHostName
A.1.25
oraEMNGEventTargetOwner
A.1.26
oraEMNGEventTgtLifeCycleStatus
A.1.27
oraEMNGEventTargetVersion
A.1.28
oraEMNGEventUserDefinedTgtProp
A.1.29
oraEMNGEventSourceObjName
A.1.30
oraEMNGEventSourceObjNameURL
A.1.31
oraEMNGEventSourceObjType
A.1.32
oraEMNGEventSourceObjSubType
A.1.33
oraEMNGEventSourceObjOwner
A.1.34
oraEMNGEventCAJobName
A.1.35
oraEMNGEventCAJobStatus
A.1.36
oraEMNGEventCAJobOwner
A.1.37
oraEMNGEventCAJobStepOutput
A.1.38
oraEMNGEventCAJobType
A.1.39
oraEMNGEventRuleSetName
A.1.40
oraEMNGEventRuleName
A.1.41
oraEMNGEventRuleOwner
A.1.42
oraEMNGEventSequenceId
A.1.43
oraEMNGEventRCADetails
A.1.44
oraEMNGEventContextAttrs
A.1.45
oraEMNGEventUserComments
A.1.46
oraEMNGEventUpdates
A.1.47
oraEMNGEventTotalOccurrenceCount
A.1.48
oraEMNGEventCurrOccurrenceCount
A.1.49
oraEMNGEventCurrFirstOccurDate
A.1.50
oraEMNGEventCurrLastOccurDate
A.1.51
oraEMNGRCAStatus
A.1.52
oraEMNGEventReportedState
A.1.53
oraEMNGEventTypeAttr(1-71)
A.2
oraEM4AlertTable
A.2.1
oraEM4AlertTargetName
A.2.2
oraEM4AlertTargetType
A.2.3
oraEM4AlertHostName
A.2.4
oraEM4AlertMetricName
A.2.5
oraEM4AlertKeyName
A.2.6
oraEM4AlertKeyValue
A.2.7
oraEM4AlertTimeStamp
A.2.8
oraEM4AlertSeverity
A.2.9
oraEM4AlertMessage
A.2.10
oraEM4AlertRuleName
A.2.11
oraEM4AlertRuleOwner
A.2.12
oraEM4AlertMetricValue
A.2.13
oraEM4AlertContext
A.2.14
oraEM4AlertCycleGuid
A.2.15
oraEM4AlertRepeatCount
A.2.16
oraEM4AlertUDTargetProperties
A.2.17
oraEM4AlertAck
A.2.18
oraEM4AlertAckBy
A.2.19
oraEM4AlertNotifType
A.2.20
oraEM4AlertViolationGuid
A.3
oraEM4JobAlertTable
A.3.1
oraEM4JobAlertJobName
A.3.2
oraEM4JobAlertJobOwner
A.3.3
oraEM4JobAlertJobType
A.3.4
oraEM4JobAlertJobStatus
A.3.5
oraEM4JobAlertTargets
A.3.6
oraEM4JobAlertTimeStamp
A.3.7
oraEM4JobAlertRuleName
A.3.8
oraEM4JobAlertRuleOwner
A.3.9
oraEM4JobAlertMetricName
A.3.10
oraEM4JobAlertMetricValue
A.3.11
oraEM4JobAlertContext
A.3.12
oraEM4JobAlertKeyName
A.3.13
oraEM4JobAlertKeyValue
A.3.14
oraEM4JobAlertSeverity
A.3.15
oraEM4JobAlertJobId
A.3.16
oraEM4JobAlertJobExecId
B
Enterprise Manager MIB Definition
B.1
MIB Definition
C
SNMP Trap Mappings
C.1
Pre-12c Enterprise Manager Metric Alerts
C.2
Pre-12C Target Availability Alerts
C.3
Pre-12C Corrective Action Results for Metric Alerts
C.4
Corrective Action Results for Target Availability
C.5
Job Status Change
D
Overview of Target Availability States
D.1
Target Availability State Changes
D.2
Target Status Change Updates
E
Timeout Values for Enterprise Manager Components
Index
