Contents

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Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure

Related Documents

Conventions

1 Introduction

Challenges of Managing the Enterprise

Availability of Information

Managing Innumerabl e 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 Comp uting with Enterprise Manager

Providing a Flexible Architecture

More About Managed Targets

More About O racle Management Service

2 Monitoring the Oracle Environment

The Basics

Metrics and Alerts - Heart o f Enterprise Manager

Aggregating Information

Identifying Trends

Comparing Metrics a nd 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 Re sponses to Alerts

Quick Views and Drill-Downs

Customizing Monitoring

Editing Thresholds

Creating Thresholds Using Metric Baselines< /dd>

Copying Metric Settings

Creating User-Defined Metrics

Taking Advantage of Jobs

Blacking Out Targets

Self-Monitoring Architecture

Oracle Management Rep ository 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 Monitorin g in Action

Business Transaction Monitoring

What Is Business Transaction Monitoring?

Business Transaction Monitoring in Action

Page Performan ce 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 Data base 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 Ap plication Server Management

Out-of-Box Management of Oracle Applicati on Server Instances

Centralized Management of Oracle Application Server Instances

Complete Oracle Application Server Administration

Automated Oracle Application Server Monitoring and Alerts

O racle Application Server Diagnostics and Historical Analysis

Diagnosing Oracle Application Server Performance Issues with "Top" Reports

Analyzing Histor ical Oracle Application Server Performance

6 Managing Deployments

Collecting Hardware and Software Configuration Information

Understanding Host Configurat ion Information

Understanding Database Configuration Information

Understanding Enterprise Configuration Information

Mo nitoring and Managing Your Deployments

Viewing the Hardware and Software Conf igurations 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 Vi ew of Your Enterprise Configuration

Comparing Configurations

Comparing Host Configurations

Comparing Database Configur ations

Searching the Enterprise Configuration

Cloning Oracle Homes and Database Instances

Viewing Host and Database Po licy Violations

Simplifying the Patching of Oracle Products

Managing Oracle Critical Patch Advisories

7 Setting Up Enterprise Manager for Your Environment

Creating Administrators

Superadmini strator Account

Administrator Account

Using Privileges

Defining Roles

Organizing Targets as Groups

8 Extending Enterprise Manager

En hancing Enterprise Manager

Accessing Management Information Using Management Repository Views

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Base Views

Imbedded Queri es In Code

Using Fetchlets

Using User-Defined SQL Metrics

9 Managing From Anywhere - EM2Go

Int roduction to EM2Go

Mobile Security

Intuitive Interface

Highlights of EM2Go

Notifications

Ad Hoc SQL and OS Queries

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10 Job System

What Is A Job?

What Are Job Executions and Job Runs?

Differences Between Job Executions and Job Runs

Refining the Job S earch

Target Types

Access Che ck Box

Using and Defining Jobs

Analyzing Job Activity

Jobs and Groups

Sharing Job Responsibilities

Job Library

Glossary

Index