Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

Audience:

• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Database Administrators
• System Analysts
• Project Manager
• Technical Administrator
• Web Administrator

Suggested Prerequisites:

• Participants to have gen. understanding Application Server
• Participants to have gen. understanding Database
• Familiarity with Application Server Control or Database Ctrl
• Good knowledge of Linux would be definite plus
• Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I Release 2

Course Objectives:

• Describe the steps involved in the installation of the Oracle Management Repository and the Oracle management Service
• Install the Oracle Management Agent
• Monitor various targets using Grid Control
• Explain high-availability options
• Create jobs to perform commonly-run tasks
• Use Grid Control provisioning features, like cloning and patching
• Use System Monitoring features to monitor Oracle environment
• Define and Monitor Services and Service Levels
• Manage and Monitor Middle-Tier Targets (Oracle and non-Oracle)
• Use Management Plug-in to extend the functionality of grid control
• Use Information Publisher to generate custom reports
• Define and Monitor Services and Service Levels
• Manage Deployments and view, search, and compare configurations
• Create Administrators and Roles
• Create Groups to help manage your environment
• Migrate to EM10gR2

Course Topics:

Introduction

• Understanding what comprises a Data Center
• Providing an overview of Grid Computing
• Discussing Grid Control as a Single point of management and its benefits
• Discussing the Service Level Management capabilities
• Explaining the out of the box management capabilities
• Understanding the managing and monitoring capabilities of management plug-ins

Grid Control Architecture

• Explaining the different components of Grid Control Architecture
• Discussing all the targets that can be managed using Grid Control
• Listing the communications protocols between the components
• Explaining the Grid Control security framework that provides secure communication between different grid control components
• Listing all the default ports that are used by individual components to communicate with each other.
• Identifying the built-in security features of Grid Control
• Discussing the importance of High Availability and the Grid Control infrastructure.

Deploying Grid Control

• Discussing the hardware requirements and prerequisites
• Identifying the installation options for the Oracle Management Service and the Management Repository
• Discussing the new install features for R2

Deploying the Oracle Management Agent

• Discussing the deployment options for the Oracle Management Agent
• Discussing post-install configuration
• Understanding the usage of Repmanager and agentca

Securing Grid Control

• Configuring Firewalls for Grid Control
• Explaining OMS locking and Agent securing
• Configuring Grid Control for Use with Oracle App Server Single Sign-On
• Configuring Grid Control for use with Enterprise User Security

Monitoring Grid Control

• Monitoring the availability of Grid Control components
• Monitoring the performance of the Management Server, Repository, and the Agent
• Identifying Log and Trace Files
• Identifying the various command line utilities that can be used to control the Grid Control components
• Identifying startup and shutdown procedures for the Grid Control components
• Determining the best practices in keeping Grid Control healthy
• Discussing backup of the OMS and the Repository
• Monitoring EM Website Web Application

Configuring Grid Control

• Creating Roles
• Creating Administrators
• Granting Privileges
• Setting up Preferred Credentials
• Discussing EMCLI

Common Managed Targets – Host

• Monitoring host availability and resource usage
• Viewing host operating system and hardware information
• Using Remote File Editor
• Discussing interactive multi target host commands
• Viewing Storage Details for host
• Validating host metrics
• Evaluating the CPU utilization for a host
• Explaining the features of Grid Control that allow you to manage and monitor the performance of host targets

Common Managed Targets – Oracle Database

• Understanding Grid Control’s advantage over Database Control
• Managing 9i and 8i databases
• Understanding Adaptive Metric Baselines and Normalized Baseline View
• Explaining the Database Performance Management features of Grid Control
• Explaining the Database Administration features of Grid Control
• Explaining the Databast Maintenance features of Grid Control

Common Managed Targets – Oracle Application Servers

• Monitoring the new middle tier target types using Grid Control
• Monitoring performance of J2EE applications
• Using custom thresholds to monitor J2EE applications
• Diagnosing J2EE application performance problems
• Stopping and restarting application server components
• Configuring backup/recovery settings and schedule a backup/perform a recovery
• Adding Application Server to Grid Control Via Application Server Control Infrastructure property page
• Explaining the Application Server performance monitoroing features of Grid Control

Monitoring your Data Center

• Understanding out-of-box monitoring features
• Changing metric settings:
• Creating and applying Monitoring Templates
• Setting up email notification for alerts and corrective actions
• Creating User-Defined Metrics
• Defining Notification Schedules
• Defining Corrective Actions
• Creating Blackouts

Groups

• Understanding the use of groups to organize and manage targets
• Defining Groups
• Managing and Monitoring Groups
• Using groups in notification rules
• Understanding Redundancy Groups

Systems and Services

• Understanding and defining Systems
• Examining systems
• Defining Topology relationships
• Viewing System Topologies
• Listing different types of services
• Creating a service based on a system
• Defining and monitoring the availability of a service:
• Creating service tests

Job System

• Creating jobs in Grid Control
• Using Job Notification
• Creating Multi-task jobs
• Viewing Rollup of job activity

Configuration Management

• Understanding your enterprise deployments
• Searching and comparing hosts
• Comparing Database configurations
• Examining init parameters
• Examining application server configurations
• Managing Policies
• Discussing Policy Violations
• Discussing Client System Analyzer

Provisioning

• Understanding Provisioning
• Explaining the Provisioning concepts
• Discussing Bare-Metal Provisioning
• Performing the Cloning operation
• Appplying Patch
• Setting up MetaLink
• Using Patch Cache
• Patching Linux Hosts

Information Publisher

• Viewing the out-of-box reports
• Customizing the out-of-box reports
• Creating custom reports
• Granting privileges of the reports
• Using the management repository and the base views to generate any kind of report
• Scheduling reports so that it can be e-mailed and/or so that copies can be saved

Monitoring Oracle Collaboration Suite

• Discuss benefits of using Grid Control to manage Oracle Collaboration Suite
• Discuss how to discover and configure Oracle Collaboration Suite services in Grid Control
• Describe how to monitor Oracle Collaboration Suite components

Management Plug-ins

• Discussing the enhancement of managing third party component in R2
• Discusing the benefits of managing 3rd party components with Grid Control
• Viewing a list of the non Oracle middleware targets and their overall health
• Monitoring performance of J2EE applications
• Understanding plug-in deployment mechanism
• Understanding how to create custom management plug-ins

Upgrade to Grid Control 10.2

• Explaining the process for upgrade from EM10.1.0.4 to EM 10.2