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Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure

Related Documents

Conventions

1 Introduction

Challenges of Managing the Enterprise

Availability of Information

Managing Innumerable Components

Preventing the Unthinkable

How to Safeguard Your Systems Against Viruses

Enterprise Manager Framework Security

Reducing the Cost of Ownership

How Enterprise Manager Meets These Challenges

Managing Your Ecosystem

Managing Grid Computing

Enterprise Manager Features to Support Grid Computing

Implementing Grid Computing with Enterprise Manager

Providing a Flexible Architecture

More About Managed Targets

More About Oracle Management Service

2 Monitoring the Oracle Environment

The Basics

Metrics and Alerts - Heart of Enterprise Manager

Aggregating Information

Identifying Trends

Comparing Metrics and Targets

Notifying the Appropriate People Instantly

Notification Methods

Notification Rules

Default Notification Rules for Supported Targets

Getting Started Monitoring

Out-of-Box Value for Monitoring

Proactive Monitoring of the Entire Oracle Ecosystem

Advice-Driven Responses to Alerts

Quick Views and Drill-Downs

Customizing Monitoring

Editing Thresholds

Creating Thresholds Using Metric Baselines

Copying Metric Settings

Creating User-Defined Metrics

Taking Advantage of Jobs

Blacking Out Targets

Self-Monitoring Architecture

Oracle Management Repository Operations

Oracle Management Services

Oracle Management Agent

3 Application Performance Management

Introduction to Application Performance Management

Web Application Availability Monitoring

What is Web Application Availability Monitoring?

Web Application Availability Monitoring in Action

Business Transaction Monitoring

What Is Business Transaction Monitoring?

Business Transaction Monitoring in Action

Page Performance Monitoring

What Is Page Performance Monitoring?

Page Performance Monitoring in Action

Extended Network and Critical URL Monitoring

What Is Extended Network and Critical URL Monitoring?

Extended Network and Critical URL Monitoring in Action

4 Database Management

Introduction to Database Management

Database Control Versus Grid Control

Database Home Page as the Management Hub

Monitoring Databases

Database Performance Page

Top Consumers

SQL Monitoring

Administering Databases

Database Maintenance

Database Group Management

Managing Multiple Databases

Best Practice Configuration Recommendations

5 Application Server Management

Out-of-Box Management of Oracle Application Server Instances

Centralized Management of Oracle Application Server Instances

Complete Oracle Application Server Administration

Automated Oracle Application Server Monitoring and Alerts

Oracle Application Server Diagnostics and Historical Analysis

Diagnosing Oracle Application Server Performance Issues with "Top" Reports

Analyzing Historical Oracle Application Server Performance

6 Managing Deployments

Collecting Hardware and Software Configuration Information

Understanding Host Configuration Information

Understanding Database Configuration Information

Understanding Enterprise Configuration Information

Monitoring and Managing Your Deployments

Viewing the Hardware and Software Configurations of a Host or Database

Viewing the Configuration Information for a Host

Viewing the Configuration Information for a Database

Tracking Changes to Host Configurations

Viewing a Summary View of Your Enterprise Configuration

Comparing Configurations

Comparing Host Configurations

Comparing Database Configurations

Searching the Enterprise Configuration

Cloning Oracle Homes and Database Instances

Viewing Host and Database Policy Violations

Simplifying the Patching of Oracle Products

Managing Oracle Critical Patch Advisories

7 Setting Up Enterprise Manager for Your Environment

Creating Administrators

Superadministrator Account

Administrator Account

Using Privileges

Defining Roles

Organizing Targets as Groups

8 Extending Enterprise Manager

Enhancing Enterprise Manager

Accessing Management Information Using Management Repository Views

Management Repository as Comprehensive Source

Base Views

Imbedded Queries In Code

Using Fetchlets

Using User-Defined SQL Metrics

9 Managing From Anywhere - EM2Go

Introduction to EM2Go

Mobile Security

Intuitive Interface

Highlights of EM2Go

Notifications

Ad Hoc SQL and OS Queries

Performance Monitoring

10 Job System

What Is A Job?

What Are Job Executions and Job Runs?

Differences Between Job Executions and Job Runs

Refining the Job Search

Target Types

Access Check Box

Using and Defining Jobs

Analyzing Job Activity

Jobs and Groups

Sharing Job Responsibilities

Job Library

Glossary

Index