Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2

What you will learn

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies. With a broad set of administration, configuration management, provisioning, end-to-end monitoring, and security capabilities, Oracle Grid Control reduces the cost and complexity of managing grid computing environments. Robust service level management functionality within Oracle Grid Control dramatically improves service levels through rich transaction and end-user performance monitoring and deep diagnostics for multi-tier Internet applications. Oracle Grid Control also offers a comprehensive extensibility framework for management of custom applications and integration with other management tools. These capabilities allow companies to deliver superior performance for their systems and applications, while continually reducing management complexity and costs.

The participants gain knowledge on the installation and configuration of the Grid Control framework. The out-of-box capability to manage Oracle targets as well as the ability to extend Grid Control to manage non-Oracle targets is presented. Hands-on practices help students learn how use the robust features of Grid Control to manage, monitor, and administer their data center.

This course counts towards the Hands-on course requirement for the Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certification. Only instructor-led inclass or instructor-led online formats of this course will meet the Certification Hands-on Requirement. Self Study CD-Rom and Knowledge Center courses DO NOT meet the Hands-on Requirement.

Learn to:
  • Monitor and manage your Grid Control framework
  • Create Systems and Services
  • Create Administrators and Roles
  • Perform System Monitoring
  • Create Reports
  • Migrate to EM10gR2
Audience
 Data Warehouse Administrator
Database Administrators
Project Manager
System Analysts
Technical Administrator
Web Administrator

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