Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control

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Course Overview

This course introduces students to Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

This course introduces students to the broad set of administration, configuration management, provisioning, end-to-end monitoring, and security capabilities provided by Oracle Grid Control. The features covered in the course will teach students how to effectively deliver optimal system performance, while continually reducing the complexity of managing grid computing environments.

Hands-on practice sessions give students an opportunity to examine many of the robust manageability features for themselves and expand their knowledge of the topics presented.

Course Goals

• Monitoring and managing the Grid Control framework
• Creating Systems and Services
• Creating Administrators and Roles
• Performing System Monitoring
• Creating Reports

Prerequisites

• Participants to have general understanding Application Server
• Participants to have general understanding Database
• Good knowledge of Linux would be definite plus

Who Should Attend?

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

Course Materials

• Student Handbook
• Enterprise Manager Reference Book

Duration

• Three (3) days

Course Outline

• 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
  • 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.
• 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
• 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
• Managed Targets - Databases
  • 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
• Monitoring the 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
  • Managing Policies
  • Discussing Policy Violations
  • Discussing Client System Analyzer
• 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