| Oracle® Enterprise Manager Licensing Information 10g Release 4 (10.2.0.4.0) Part Number B40010-08 |
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| Oracle® Enterprise Manager Licensing Information 10g Release 4 (10.2.0.4.0) Part Number B40010-08 |
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The following sections in this chapter describe the licensed features and access points for each of the following categories of Enterprise Manager management plug-ins:
Configuration Management Pack for Non-Oracle Systems
Diagnostics Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware
Provisioning Pack
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in For Hosts
System Monitoring Plug-Ins for Storage
System Monitoring Plug-Ins for Network Devices
System Monitoring Plug-Ins for Non-Oracle Middleware
System Monitoring Plug-Ins for Non-Oracle Databases
Management Connectors
Configuration management for Non-Oracle Systems automates the time-consuming and often error-prone process of managing host software and hardware configurations and deployments other than Oracle software. This pack provides capabilities such as search and compare across all systems, configuration monitoring, policy management and compliance support, security configuration scoring and dashboards, and comprehensive reporting. This pack provides the following capabilities:
View and analyze configuration
View and analyze deployments/installations
Search configuration
Compare configuration
Manage policies, including policy notifications
Provide configuration reports
Provide repository tables/views that store/expose the above data
To use these features, you must purchase the license for the Configuration Management Pack for Non-Oracle Systems and install the pack. Some features for the pack are accessed only when you are in Grid Control mode. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The sections that follow discuss the licensable features of the Configuration Management Pack for Non-Oracle Systems, and itemize the links that require licensing of the pack.
The following licensed pages and links of this pack apply to host software management and configurations, but do not apply to Oracle software.
Grid Control Home page:
All links in the All Targets Policy Violations section
Database, Hardware, and Operating System related information in the Deployments Summary section
All links in the Security Policy Violations section
All links in the Critical Patch Advisories for Oracle Homes section
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Targets tab, then the Databases sub-tab. On the Databases page, the Policy Violations links are licensed as part of the pack.
From the Databases page, click any database Name. On the Database Instance page, the following links are licensed as part of the pack:
Space Violations under the Space Summary section
All links in the Policy Violations section
All links in the Security section
From the Database Instance page, click the Maintenance sub-tab. The Configuration section links are licensed as part of the pack.
From the Database Instance Maintenance page, click the Metric and Policy Settings link in the Related Links section. On the Metric and Policy Settings page, the Policies sub-tab is licensed as part of the pack.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Deployments tab. On the Deployments page, the following items are licensed as part of the pack:
All links in the Configuration and Client Configurations sections
From the Grid Control Home page, select the Compliance tab to display the Policy Violations page, which is grouped in the Violations sub-tab. All links, sub-navigation tabs, and features available on or linked to from the Grid Control Policies Violations page for policies are licensed as part of this pack.
From the Grid Control Home page, select the Compliance tab, then the Policy Groups sub-tab. On the Grid Control Policy Group Evaluation Results page, all links and features are licensed as a part of this pack.
From the Grid Control Home page, select the Compliance tab, then the Security at a Glance sub-tab. On the Grid Control Security at a Glance page, all links and features are licensed as a part of this pack.
From the Grid Control Hosts page, click a specific host to display the Host Home page. The following links are licensed as part of the pack:
All links in the Security section
Under Related Links, the following links are licensed:
Deployments
Metric and Policy Settings
From the Host Home page, click the Targets tab. The following links and columns are licensed:
Policy Violations and associated links
Compliance Score (%)
From the Host Home page, click the Configuration tab. The following buttons are licensed:
Save
History
Compare Configuration
Compare to Multiple Configurations
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Targets tab, then select the Systems sub-tab. On the Systems page, the following items are licensed as part of the pack:
Policy Violations links
From the Systems page, click any system Name. On the System Home page, everything is licensed as part of the pack except for the Status and Alerts sections.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Targets tab, then select the Groups sub-tab. On the Groups page, the following items are licensed as part of the pack:
Policy Violations links
From the Groups page, click any group Name. On the Group Home page, everything is licensed as part of the pack except for the Status and Alerts sections.
From the Groups Home page, click the Administration tab. The following links and features are licensed features of the pack:
Hardware and Operating Systems related information in the Deployments Summary section
Host Operating System and Hardware Summaries selection for the Configuration Searches section
From the Groups Home page, click the Members tab. The following links and features are licensed features of the pack:
All links and the information in the Policy Violations column
Click the Setup link on the upper right corner of the Enterprise Manager console, then click the Monitoring Templates link. On the Monitoring Templates page, click any Name. The Policies sub-tab on the View Monitoring Template page is a licensed feature of the pack.
The following reports are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Non-Oracle Systems. All reports in each of these sections are licensed for this pack. To display the Reports page, click the Reports tab on the Grid Control Home page.
All reports under Deployment and Configuration
Monitoring reports
Alerts and Policy Violations
Disabled Policies
Security reports
Security Policy Overview
The following repository views are part of the Configuration Management Pack for Non-Oracle Systems:
Policy Definition Views
mgmt$policies
mgmt$policy_parameters
mgmt$policy_violation_ctxt
mgmt$policy_viol_annotations
mgmt$policy_viol_notif_log
Policy Association Views
mgmt$target_policies
mgmt$target_policy_settings
mgmt$target_policy_eval_sum
mgmt$target_compLIAnce_score
Policy Violation Views
mgmt$policy_violation_current
mgmt$policy_violation_history
mgmt$policy_violation_context
Configuration Views
mgmt$db_tablespaces
mgmt$db_datafiles
mgmt$db_controlfiles
Oracle Home Patching
MGMT$CPF_ADVISORY_INFO
MGMT$CPF_HOMES_INFO
MGMT$CPF_PATCH_INFO
MGMT$EM_HOMES_PLATFORM
MGMT$HOMES_AFFECTED
MGMT$PATCH_ADVISORIES
MGMT$APPL_PATCH_AND_PATCHSET
MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHES
MGMT$APPLIED_PATCHSETS
Linux Patching
MGMT$HOSTPATCH_HOSTS
MGMT$HOSTPATCH_GROUPS
MGMT$HOSTPATCH_GRP_COMPL_HIST
MGMT$HOSTPATCH_HOST_COMPL
Security Views
MGMT$ESA_ALL_PRIVS_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_ANY_DICT_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_ANY_PRIV_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_AUDIT_SYSTEM_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_BECOME_USER_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_CATALOG_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_CONN_PRIV_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_CREATE_PRIV_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_DBA_GROUP_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_DBA_ROLE_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_DIRECT_PRIV_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_EXMPT_ACCESS_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_KEY_OBJECTS_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_OH_OWNERSHIP_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_OH_PERMISSION_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_POWER_PRIV_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_PUB_PRIV_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_SYS_PUB_PKG_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_TABSP_OWNERS_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_TRC_AUD_PERM_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_WITH_ADMIN_REPORT
MGMT$ESA_WITH_GRANT_REPORT
Client Configurations Views
MGMT$CSA_COLLECTIONS
MGMT$CSA_FAILED
MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_COMPONENTS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_SW
MGMT$CSA_HOST_COOKIES
MGMT$CSA_HOST_CUSTOM
MGMT$CSA_HOST_RULES
MGMT$CSA_HOST_CPUS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_IOCARDS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_NICS
MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_PROPERTIES
MGMT$CSA_HOST_OS_FILESYSEMS
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY_KEY1
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY_KEY2
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY_KEY3
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY_KEY4
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY_KEY5
MGMT$ECM_CONFIG_HISTORY_KEY6
MGMT$HW_NIC
MGMT$OS_COMPONENTS
MGMT$OS_FS_MOUNT
MGMT$OS_HW_SUMMARY
MGMT$OS_PATCHES
MGMT$OS_SUMMARY
MGMT$SOFTWARE_COMP_PATCHSET
MGMT$SOFTWARE_COMPONENT_ONEOFF
MGMT$SOFTWARE_COMPONENTS
MGMT$SOFTWARE_DEPENDENCIES
MGMT$SOFTWARE_HOMES
MGMT$SOFTWARE_ONEOFF_PATCHES
MGMT$SOFTWARE_OTHERS
MGMT$SOFTWARE_PATCHES_IN_HOMES
MGMT$SOFTWARE_PATCHSETS
This pack improves the availability and performance of Java applications with low overhead deployed on Non-Oracle Middleware (such as BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, JBoss Application Server, and Apache Tomcat), as well as providing in-depth diagnostics. It enables administrators to proactively monitor application performance and diagnose the root cause of performance problems, such as application crashing and hanging in a production environment, which may severely impact businesses.
Oracle AD4J diagnoses the root cause of Java application performance problems in Java applications with very low performance overhead. The following features are available for Oracle AD4J:
Production diagnostics with no application instrumentation, saving time in reproducing problems
Visibility into Java activity, including in-flight transactions, allowing administrators to proactively identify issues rather than diagnosing after-the-fact
Tracing of transactions from Java to Oracle Database and vice-versa, enabling faster resolution of problems that span different tiers
The following pages are licensed features of the Diagnostics Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware:
From the Grid Control Home page, select the Targets tab, then the Web Applications sub-tab. Click any Web Application Name in the table. On the resulting Web Application page, the Page Performance tab is a licensed feature of the Diagnostics Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware.
All the pages in Oracle AD4J.
From the Grid Control Home page, select the Targets tab, then select the Application Servers sub-tab. On the Application Servers page, the following links on the Add drop down menu are licensable features of the Diagnostics Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware.
BEA WebLogic Server Domain
IBM WebSphere Application Server Cell
IBM WebSphere Application Server
JBoss Application Server
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the page. On the Overview of Setup page, click the Agents sub-tab. From the Agents page, click an agent to display the Agent Home page. The following selections from the Add drop-down menu under the Monitored Targets section are licensed features of the Diagnostics Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware:
BEA WebLogic Managed Server
IBM Websphere Application Server
JBoss Application Server
Apache Tomcat
The following command line interface (CLI) verb (as it relates to adding non-Oracle middleware) is licensed as part of the Diagnostics Pack for Non-Oracle Middleware:
add_target
The internal names to be used with the add_target verb are:
websphere_j2eeserver
weblogic_j2eeserver
jboss_j2eeserver
tomcat
The Provisioning Pack automates deployment of software, applications, and patches. It provides easy and scalable critical data center operations, resulting in lower operational risk and cost of ownership.
This pack provides functionality for "bare-metal" provisioning of operating systems and software images, (such as Oracle Clusterware, Real Application Clusters, and Oracle Application Servers), cloning of existing installations and Oracle databases, and patching.
Enterprise Manager versions 10g 10.2.0.2 and later enable you to also orchestrate the provisioning and patching process through Deployment Procedures. These are a set of "best practices" shipped out-of-box that you can also extend by customizing according to your needs. You can reuse the deployment procedures, and you can export and import them across environments that would involve creation of a single procedure to do operations across test environments and production. The Deployment Procedures are also hot-pluggable, and enable you to add procedures as Oracle releases them to Oracle MetaLink.
Note:
In Enterprise Manager 10g 10.1, three features that are currently licensed as part of the Oracle Provisioning Pack were previously part of the Configuration Management Pack: Patch Deployment (Patch Database and View Patch Cache, Patch staging), Clone Oracle Home, and Clone Database. If you have previously licensed the Oracle Configuration Management Pack for Database, you are entitled to use these features without licensing the Oracle Provisioning Pack.The following sections describe the features that are included as part of the Provisioning pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The following features were previously part of the Configuration Management Pack in Enterprise Manager version 10g 10.1, and are now part of the Provisioning pack.
Table 6-1 Former Configuration Management Pack Features in Provisioning Pack
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Critical Patch Facility |
Grid Control performs an assessment of vulnerabilities by examining your enterprise configuration to determine which Oracle homes have not applied one or more software patches that have been identified as critical. Grid Control provides a list of critical patch advisories and the Oracle homes to which the critical patches should be applied. The Critical Patch Facility enables administrators to download the Critical Patch metadata from Oracle MetaLink and upload it to the repository. The "RefreshFromMetalink" job can then use this metadata to perform Critical Patch calculations in offline mode. Administrators will be alerted to security updates even if the Management Service is not connected to Oracle MetaLink. The Critical Patch Facility's offline mode makes it easy to keep your environment patched to the latest level. Only the Critical Patch Facility advisors remain in the Configuration Management Pack. |
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Database Cloning |
You can clone a database instance using the Clone Database feature of Grid Control. Clone Database clones a database instance to an existing Oracle home. To create a new Oracle home into which to clone the instance, use the Clone Oracle Home tool to create a new Oracle home, then use the Clone Database tool to clone the instance to that cloned home. |
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ORACLE_HOME Cloning |
Use this feature to clone existing Oracle home directories. After you have configured an Oracle home into a desirable state—where you have chosen particular installation options, applied required patches, and tested it—you can clone this Oracle home to one or more hosts using Grid Control's "Clone Oracle Home" tool. |
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ORACLE_HOME and Target Patching |
Use this feature to patch an ORACLE_HOME. |
The Provisioning pack and Configuration Management packs share the following features.
Table 6-2 Features Shared by Provisioning Pack and Configuration Management Packs
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Security at a Glance |
This feature is completely shared between the Provisioning Pack and the Configuration Management packs. |
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Critical Patch Advisory |
The Advisory portion of the Critical Patch Facility is common to both the Provisioning Pack and the Configuration Management packs. See the description of the Critical Patch Facility in Table 6-1. |
The following features are available only in the Provisioning Pack.
Table 6-3 Features Exclusive to Provisioning Pack
| Feature | Description |
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Software Library |
Creates and maintains a library of reference software images. |
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Bare Metal Provisioning |
Deploys operating systems and software to bare metal servers. |
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Extending Cluster Foot 1 |
Extends RAC clusters or Oracle Application Server middleware. |
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Adding a Database Instance |
Adds a database instance to Enterprise Manager. |
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Single-instance RAC Conversion |
Converts a database to a RAC cluster. |
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One-click RAC Extend |
Extends RAC clusters with a single-click procedure. |
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Delete/Scale down RAC |
Deletes or scales down nodes of a RAC cluster. |
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Patch Oracle Software |
Patches Oracle software (single-instance and RAC databases, Oracle Clusterware, ASM, and application servers. |
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Operating System Patching |
Patches Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems. |
Footnote 1 Feature that is part of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack for versions 10g 10.2.0.2 and later.
The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the Provisioning Pack. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The instructions below assume that you begin from the main Grid Control Home page.
From the Enterprise Manager Home page:
Select any of the links in the Security Violations section. On the resulting Violations page, the Security At a Glance tab is a licensed feature of the Provisioning Pack.
Under the section Critical Patch Advisories for Oracle Homes, any Patch button is a licensed feature of the pack.
From the Deployments page linked from the Enterprise Manager Home page:
Under the section Critical Patch Advisories for Oracle Homes, any Patch button is a licensed feature of the pack.
Under the Patching section, the links Patching through Deployment Procedures, View Patch Cache, and Patch Linux Hosts are all licensed under the Provisioning Pack.
Under the Cloning section, the links Clone Database and Clone Oracle Home are both part of the Provisioning feature.
Under the Deployment Procedure Manager section, the general link Deployment Procedures and specific functionality procedures links, such as RAC Provisioning Procedures, Application Server Provisioning Procedures, Patch Procedures, and Extend Cluster Database are all licensed under the Provisioning Pack.
The sub-navigation tab, Provisioning, and the tabs under the page are all licensed under the Provisioning Pack.
From the Targets tab on the Enterprise Manager Home page, select the Databases tab, then a database name.
On the Database Instance Home page, the Enterprise Security At a Glance link in the Security section is a licensed feature of the Provisioning Pack.
Select the Maintenance sub-tab. The Setup and Manage link in the Data Guard section is a licensed feature of the Provisioning Pack.
On the Database Home page Maintenance tab, the following links are licensed as part of the Provisioning Pack:
Apply Patch and View Patch Cache under the Database Software Patching section
Clone Database in the Move Database Files column of the Data Movement section
On the Database Home page Administration tab, the following links are licensed as part of the Provisioning Pack:
Convert to Cluster Database link
Add Instance (only for RAC database)
Delete Instance (only for RAC database)
On the Agents Home page by way of the All Targets page, the Patch Oracle Software link in the Related Links section is licensed.
Note:
For Agent patching, you must enable the Provisioning Pack only for an Oracle Management Services host.On each of the following target tabs, the Security At a Glance link is licensed as part of the Provisioning Pack:
Host Targets tab, navigate to the Host Home page, then select the Enterprise Security At a Glance link.
Application Servers tab, navigate to the Application Server Home page, then select the Enterprise Security At a Glance link.
Groups tab, navigate to the Group Home page, then select the Security At a Glance link.
Systems tab, navigate to the Systems Home page, then select the Security At a Glance link.
Web Applications tab, navigate to the Web Applications Home page. From there, select the System link, then the System (Topology) link, and then select the Security At a Glance link.
Services tab, navigate to the Service Home page. From there, select the System link, then the System (Topology) link, and then select the Security At a Glance link.
Enterprise Manager offers Management Plug-ins to expand system coverage to non-Oracle components such as hosts, non-Oracle databases, non-Oracle middleware, network devices, and storage, thus providing customers with a single integrated tool for managing any application built on Oracle. The Management Plug-ins deliver availability and performance monitoring, historical trend analysis, and advanced event management capabilities, enabling faster problem diagnosis and resolution.
The Management Plug-in page is the central access point for all of the functionality available to you to operate on your Management Plug-ins. Any Management Plug-in imported into the Management Repository is listed on the Management Plug-Ins page. Certain operations allow you to operate on multiple Management Plug-ins simultaneously (delete and export); some operations only allow you to operate on a single Management Plug-in at a time (deploy and undeploy); and import allows you to add Management Plug-ins to the table on this page. You also can search through the Management Plug-ins in the table using Name and Version as search criteria at the top of the page.
Note:
Not all management plug-ins described in this guide are available on the Management Plug-Ins page. Only Management Plug-ins that have been imported into the Management Repository are listed on the page. Use the import function to add Management Plug-ins to the table.To deploy a plug-in in the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Console, use the following procedure.
Log in to the Grid Control Console as a super administrator.
Click Setup in the upper right corner of the page.
Click Management Plug-ins on the left navigation panel.
In the table on this page, find the Management Plug-in you want to deploy. If your management plug-in is not listed in the table, click the Import button to import it into Enterprise Manager.
Click the Deploy icon corresponding to the plug-in you want to deploy.
The System Monitoring Plug-ins for Hosts provide performance and availability data collection, historical monitoring, event management/monitoring, notifications, and performance reporting for host systems.
See Also:
Deploying and Managing Management Plug-Ins for Oracle Enterprise ManagerEnterprise Manager offers the following Plug-ins for Hosts:
System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts for Operating Systems and Hardware
System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts for VMware ESX Server
The following sections explain the features, licensed links, licensed repository views, and command line interface (CLI) verbs for this plug-in.
The following features are available for this plug-in:
Real-time and historical performance monitoring and trending (hosts)
Adminstration for users and groups
Event management and monitoring
Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules, and schedules
Event/alert history and metric history (hosts)
User-defined metrics
Metric snapshots
Blackouts/planned outages
Monitoring templates
Corrective actions (including response actions)
Performance and event reports
Repository tables/views that store/expose the above data
To use these features, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts.
The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the System Monitoring for Hosts for Operating Systems and Hardware Plug-in. Some features for the plug-in are accessed only when you are in Grid Control mode. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The list that follows assumes that you begin from the main Grid Control Home page.
From the Oracle Enterprise Manager Hosts page:
When you click the link in the Status column, Enterprise Manager displays the Availability (Status History) page, which is part of this licensed plug-in.
When you select the value in the CPU Util % column, the metric history page for CPU Utilization (%) appears, which is part of this licensed plug-in.
When you select the value in the Memory Util % column, the metric history page for Memory Utilization (%) appears, which is part of licensed System Monitoring for Hosts plug-in.
When you select the value in the Total IO/sec column, the metric history page for Total Disk I/O Per Second appears, which is part of the licensed plug-in.
From the Oracle Enterprise Manager Host Home page:
When you click the link in the Status field or the Availability field, the Availability (Status History) page appears, which is part of this licensed plug-in.
When you click the Black Out button, the Create Blackout wizard initiates, which is part of this licensed plug-in.
When you click the Metric Name in the Alerts Table, the metric history page that is displayed is part of this licensed plug-in.
From the Related Links section of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Host Home page, the following links are licensed as part of this plug-in:
Alert History
Blackouts
Storage Details
User-defined Metrics
From the All Metrics link and the resultant All Metrics page, drilling down to Metric History pages is licensed.
From the Metrics and Policy Settings link, selecting Metric Snapshots from the Metric Thresholds Links section is a licensed feature.
All links, charts, and information on the Performance sub-tab of the Host Home page are licensed under this plug-in.
All links and information on the Administration sub-tab of the Host Home page are licensed under under this plug-in.
Select the Preferences link on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Hosts page. From the General Preferences list, selecting either Notification Rules or Notifications Public Rules, and then Create to create a notification rule, or selecting the Notification Schedules feature is a licensed activity of this plug-in.
Creating a notification rule that applies to a host is a licensable feature of this plug-in.
Select the Setup link on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Hosts page. The following links on the Overview of Setup page are licensed as part of this plug-in:
Monitoring Templates
Corrective Action Library
Notification Methods
Blackouts
Select the Alerts tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Hosts page. Clicking on the Message link for any host-related alert is a licensed feature of the plug-in.
Select the Groups sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. On the Groups page, click an Alert in the Alert column. The Message link on the Status Report page is a licensed feature of the plug-in.
Select the Groups sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the Group Home page. The following items are licensed as part of this plug-in:
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts section
Alert History button in the Alerts section
Status History button in the Status section
Select the Groups sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the Group Home page. All information on the Groups Charts page is licensed if the host is part of the membership of the group.
Select the Groups sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the Group Home page. On the Groups Administration page, all links in the Blackouts section are licensed if the host is a member of the group.
Select the Groups sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the Group Home page. On the Groups Members page, the following items are licensed as part of this plug-in:
Host-related links in the Status column
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts column
Links in the performance metric columns for hosts; for example, CPU Usage and Memory Usage
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. On the Systems page, click an Alert in the Alert column. The Message link on the Status Report page is a licensed feature of the plug-in.
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the System Home page. Whenever a host target is included in the system, the following items are licensed as part of this plug-in on the Systems Home page:
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts section
Alert History button in the Alerts section
Status History button in the Status section
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the System Home page. All information on the Systems Charts page is licensed if the host is part of the system.
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the System Home page. On the Systems Administration page, all links in the Blackouts section are licensed if the host is part of the system.
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the System Home page. On the Systems Components page, the following items are licensed:
Host links in the Status column
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts column
Links in the performance metric columns for host metrics
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the System Home page. On the Systems Topology page, the following items are licensed:
Status link in the Selection Details column for host components
Message links accessible from the alerts links in the Selection Details and Summary sections for host alerts
Select the Systems sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Navigate to the System Home page. Click the Launch Dashboard button. On the Dashboard, all Message links for host-related alerts in the Message column are licensed as are status links in the status column.
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. On the Services page, the following items are licensed as part of this plug-in:
The Status link is licensed if service availability is system-based and if at least one host component is a key component
Message links accessible from links in the Performance Alerts section if host metrics are used as performance metrics
Message links accessible from links in the Usage Alerts column if host metrics are used as usage metrics
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts column of the Key Components sub-column
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. On the Services page, select a Service to add from the Add drop-down menu and click Go. On the Services Creation wizard, the use of host metrics as performance and usage metrics is a licensed feature of the plug-in.
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a generic service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. The following items are licensed as part of this plug-in on the Service Home page:
The Blackout button in the General section is licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
The Availability link in the General section is licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Actual Service Level link in the General section is licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Message links in the Message column for host-related alerts accessible from Alert links in the Key Component Summary section
Message links in the Message column of the Possible Causes of Service Failure section if a host component is one of the possible causes of failure
Message links in the Message columns accessible from the Root Cause Analysis Details link in the Possible Causes of Service Failure section if a host component is one of the possible causes of failure
Message links for host-related alerts in the Message column of the Alerts section
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a generic service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. Click the System link. The following items are licensed as part of this plug-in on the Service System page:
Status link for host key components
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts column
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a generic service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. Click the Topology link. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in on the Service Topology page:
The Status link in the Selection Details section is licensed if service availability is system-based and if at least one host is a key component
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from the Alerts link in the Selection Details section
Possible Root Cause link in the Selection Details section if the root cause is a host
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a generic service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. Click the Monitoring Configuration link. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in on the Service Monitoring Configuration page:
Host links for host targets in the Component Test column accessible from the Root Cause Analysis Configuration link
Adding Performance Metrics based on host metrics accessible from the Performance Metrics link
Adding Usage Metrics based on host metrics accessible from the Usage Metrics link
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a generic service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in in the Related Links section:
Blackouts and all subsequent pages are licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Alert History link and subsequent pages if any host metrics are used as performance or usage metrics for the service
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click an aggregate service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. The following items are licensed as part of this plug-in on the Service Home page:
The Blackout button in the General section is licensed if the availability of one of the sub-services is system-based and at least one host is a key component
The Availability link in the General section is licensed if the availability of one of the sub-services is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Actual Service Level link in the General section is licensed if the availability of one of the sub-services is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Message links in the Message column for host-related alerts accessible from Alert links in the Key Component Summary section
Message links in the Message column of the Possible Causes of Service Failure section, if a host component is one of the possible causes of failure
Message links in the Message columns accessible from the Root Cause Analysis Details link in the Possible Causes of Service Failure section, if a host component is one of the possible causes of failure
Message links for host-related alerts in the Message column of the Alerts section
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click an aggregate service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. Click the Topology link. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in on the Service Topology page:
The Status link in the Selection Details section is licensed if the availability of one of the sub-services is system-based and if at least one host is a key component
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from the Alerts link in the Selection Details section
Possible Root Cause link in the Selection Details section if the root cause is a host
Select the Services sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click an aggregate service link on the Services page to display the Service Home page. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in in the Related Links section:
Blackouts and all subsequent pages are licensed if the availability of one of the sub-services is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Host links for host targets in the Component Test column accessible from the Root Cause Analysis Configuration link
Select the Web Applications sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. On the Web Applications page the following items are licensed as part of this plug-in:
If Web Application availability is system-based and if at least one host component is a key component, then the Status link is licensed
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts column
Select the Web Applications sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a web application. The following items are licensed as part of this plug-in on the Web Application Home page:
The Blackout button in the General section is licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
The Availability link in the General section is licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Actual Service Level link in the General section is licensed if the availability of the service is system-based and at least one host is a key component
Message links in the Message column for host-related alerts accessible from Alert links in the Key Component Summary section
Message links in the Message column of the Possible Causes of Service Failure section, if a host component is one of the possible causes of failure
Message links in the Message columns accessible from the Root Cause Analysis Details link in the Possible Causes of Service Failure section, if a host component is one of the possible causes of failure
Message links for host-related alerts in the Message column of the Alerts section for host alerts
Select the Web Applications sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a web application. Click the System link. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in on the Web Application System page:
Status link is licensed if service availability is system-based and if at least one host is a key component
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from links in the Alerts column
Select the Web Applications sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a web application. Click the Topology link. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in on the Web Application Topology page:
The Status link in the Selection Details section is licensed if service availability is system-based and if at least one host is a key component
Message links for host-related alerts accessible from the Alerts link in the Selection Details section
Possible Root Cause link in the Selection Details section if the root cause is a host
Select the Web Applications sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a web application. Click the Monitoring Configuration link. The following items are licensed as part of the plug-in on the Web Application Monitoring Configuration page:
Host links in the Component Test column accessible from the Root Cause Analysis Configuration link
Adding Performance Metrics based on host metrics accessible from the Performance Metrics link
Adding Usage Metrics based on host metrics accessible from the Usage Metrics link
Select the Web Applications sub-tab on the Enterprise Manager Grid Control Host page. Click a web application. The following item is licensed as part of the plug-in in the Related Links section:
Blackouts and all subsequent pages are licensed if the availability of the web application is system-based and at least one host is a key component
From the Grid Control Home page, select Targets, then Databases, and then select a database link to drill down to the Database Home page. On the Database Home page, any Message link for host-related alerts in the Related Alerts section is a licensed part of this plug-in.
From the Grid Control Home page, select Targets, then Application Servers. Click an application server. On the Application Server Home page, all Message links in the Host Alerts section are licensed.
From the home page for any target type, all Message links in the Host Alerts section are licensed.
The following reports are part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts for Operating Systems and Hardware. To display the Reports page, click the Reports tab on the Grid Control Home page.
20 Most Common Alerts and Policy Violations
20 Most Common Alerts and Policy Violations (Target): for a host target
Alerts and Policy Violations History
Alerts and Policy Violations History (Group): if a host is one of the members of the group
Alerts and Policy Violations History (Target): for a host target
Availability History (Group): if a host is one of the members of the group
Availability History (Redundancy Group): if a host is one of the members of the redundancy group
Availability History (Target): for a host target
The following repository views are part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts for Operating Systems and Hardware:
Monitoring Views
MGMT$BLACKOUT_HISTORY
MGMT$BLACKOUTS
MGMT$ALERT_ANNOTATIONS
MGMT$ALERT_NOTIF_LOG
MGMT$AVAILABILITY_HISTORY
MGMT$ALERT_HISTORY
MGMT$METRIC_DETAILS
MGMT$METRIC_HOURLY
MGMT$METRIC_DAILY
Template Views
MGMT$TEMPLATES
MGMT$TEMPLATE_POLICY_SETTINGS
MGMT$TEMPLATE_METRIC_COLLECTION
MGMT$TEMPLATE_METRIC_SETTINGS
The following sections explain the features, licensed links, and command line interface (CLI) verbs for this plug-in.
The following features are available for this plug-in:
Real-time and historical performance monitoring and trending
Event management/monitoring
Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules and schedules
Event/alert history/metric history
User-defined metrics
Metric snapshots
Blackouts/planned outages
Monitoring templates
Corrective actions (including response actions)
Performance and event reports
Repository tables and views that store or expose the above data
Distributed management through groups and systems
Configuration management features, including thrid-party middleware software configuration data collection, search, comparison, and change tracking
To use the features above, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-in for for Hosts for VMware ESX Server.
The following selection is a licensed feature of the System Monitoring Plug-in for for Hosts for VMware ESX Server:
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the page. On the Overview of Setup page, click the Agents sub-tab. From the Agents page, click an agent to display the Agent Home page. The VMware ESX Server selection from the Add drop-down menu under the Monitored Targets section is a licensed feature of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts for VMware ESX Server.
The following command line interface (CLI) verb (as it relates to adding hosts for VMware ESX Server) is licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Hosts for VMware ESX Server:
add_target
The internal name to be used with the add_target verb is:
vmware_esx_server
The System Monitoring Plug-ins for Storage provide performance and availability data collection, real-time and historical monitoring, event management/monitoring, notifications, and performance reporting for storage devices.
The following storage plug-ins are available:
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for NetApp Filer
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for EMC Symetrix DMX system
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for EMC CLARiiON system
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for EMC NS Series NAS
See Also:
Deploying and Managing Management Plug-Ins for Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe following features are available for these plug-ins:
Performance monitoring and trending (storage)
Event management/monitoring (storage)
Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules and schedules
Event/alert history/metric history /metric history (storage)
Metric snapshots
Blackouts/planned outages
Monitoring templates
Corrective actions (including response actions)
Performance and event reports
Repository tables/views that store/expose the above data
To use these features, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-ins for Storage.
The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the System Monitoring Plug-Ins for Storage. All of the plug-ins (except host) are available in Grid Control only. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The list that follows assumes that you begin from the main Grid Control Home page.
Note:
This section does not include feature links that may contain information derived from adding NetApp Filer instances, but are considered part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Storage.From the Host Home page, select All Targets. Click an Agent to display the Agent Home page. From the Add menu drop-down, the Network Appliance Filer selection is a licensed option of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Storage. This also applies to EMC Celerra Server.
The add_target verb with the following listed types is licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Storage:
add_target (with type=Ónetapp_filerÓ)
add_target (with type=Óemc_symmetrix_storageÓ)
add_target (with type=Óemc_clariion_storageÓ)
add_target (with type=Óemc_celerra_storageÓ)
The System Monitoring Plug-ins for Network Devices provide performance and availability data collection, real-time and historical monitoring, event management/monitoring, notifications, and performance reporting for network devices. The following network device plug-ins are available:
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for F5 Load Balancers
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Check Point Firewall
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Juniper Netscreen Firewall
See Also:
Deploying and Managing Management Plug-Ins for Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe following features are available for these plug-ins:
Real-time and historical performance monitoring and trending (network devices)
Event management/monitoring (network devices)
Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules and schedules
Metric snapshots
Blackouts/planned outages
Monitoring templates
Corrective actions (including response actions)
Performance and event reports
Browsing the configuration history, taking configuration snapshots, and comparing configurations
Repository tables/views that store/expose the above data
To use these, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-in for Network Devices.
The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the System Monitoring for Network Devices plug-ins. The features for the plug-ins are available only in Grid Control mode. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The list that follows assumes that you begin from the main Grid Control Home page.
Note:
This section does not include feature links that may contain information derived from adding F5 BIG-IP Server Load Balancers instances, but are considered part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Network Devices Pack.From the Host Home page, select All Targets. Click an Agent to display the Agent Home page. From the Add menu drop-down, the Load Balancer Switch selection is a licensed option of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Network Devices. Add other plug-ins as needed. Respective target type names are BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, Check Point Firewall, and Juniper Netscreen Firewall.
The following command line interface (CLI) verb is licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Network Devices:
add_target (with type=ÓslbÓ)
The internal names to be used with the add_target verb are:
f5_bigip_v9plus_loadbalancer
juniper_netscreen_firewall
checkpoint_firewall
The Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Middleware provide performance and availability data collection, real-time and historical monitoring, event management/monitoring, notifications, and reporting for Non-Oracle Middleware.
The following plug-ins for non-Oracle middleware are available:
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for IBM WebSphere MQ
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft Active Directory
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft Internet Information Services
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft .NET Framework
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft Commerce Server
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft BizTalk Server
Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
See Also:
Deploying and Managing Management Plug-Ins for Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe following features are available for these plug-ins:
Real-time and historical performance monitoring and trending
Event management/monitoring
Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules and schedules
Event/alert history/metric history
User-defined metrics
Metric snapshots
Blackouts/planned outages
Monitoring templates
Corrective actions (including response actions)
Performance and event reports
Repository tables and views that store or expose the above data
Distributed management through groups and systems
Configuration management features, including thrid-party middleware software configuration data collection, search, comparison, and change tracking (applies only to System Monitoring Plug-ins for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Internet Information Services, and Microsoft Exchange Server).
To use the features above, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware.
The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the plug-ins. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The list that follows assumes that you begin from the main Grid Control Home page.
Note:
This section does not include feature links that may contain information derived from adding non-Oracle Middleware instances to Grid Control, but are considered part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware.From the Grid Control Home page, click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the page. On the Overview of Setup page, click the Agents sub-tab. From the Agents page, click an agent to display the Agent Home page. The following selections from the Add drop-down menu under the Monitored Targets section are licensed features of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware:
IBM WebSphere MQ Queue Manager
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Internet Information Services (Microsoft IIS)
Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft Commerce Server
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (Microsoft ISA Server)
Microsoft Exchange Server
The following command line interface (CLI) verb (as it relates to adding non-Oracle middleware) is licensed as part of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Middleware:
add_target
The internal names to be used with the add_target verb are:
wmq (See note below.)
active_directory
microsoft_iis
microsoft_dotnet
microsoft_commerceserver
microsoft_biztalk
microsoft_isaserver
microsoft_exchange
Note:
For wmq, another jar file is needed after executing the add_target command. After adding the target, modify the jar path property from the "Monitoring Configuration link" by appending the following path:/scratch/mqjars/com.ibm.mq.jar
Use a colon as a separator between the two jar files if the agent is Linux-based, and a semicolon if the Agent is Windows-based.
The following plug-ins for non-Oracle databases are available:
Microsoft SQL Server
IBM DB2
See Also:
Deploying and Managing Management Plug-Ins for Oracle Enterprise ManagerThe following features are available for these plug-ins:
Performance monitoring and trending
Event management/monitoring
Event/alert notifications: notification methods, rules, and schedules
Metric snapshots
Blackouts/planned outages
Monitoring templates
Corrective actions (including response actions)
Performance and event reports
Browsing the configuration history, taking configuration snapshots, and comparing configurations
Repository tables/views that store/expose the above data
To use these features, you must license the System Monitoring Plug-ins for Non-Oracle Database.
The list that follows itemizes the links that require licensing of the plug-ins. You can navigate to these features in several ways. The list that follows assumes that you begin from the main Grid Control Home page.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the page. On the Overview of Setup page, click the Agents sub-tab. From the Agents page, click an agent to display the Agent Home page. The following selections from the Add drop-down menu under the Monitored Targets section are licensed features of the System Monitoring Plug-in for Non-Oracle Databases:
Microsoft SQL Server
IBM DB2 Database
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 delivered Management Connectors to enable bi-directional integration between Enterprise Manager and other management tools and help desk systems. By seamlessly integrating different tools within the IT environment, organizations can streamline key support processes, consolidate monitoring information in their tool of choice, reduce the total cost of ownership, and perform cross-platform diagnostics and root cause analysis.
The following sections in this chapter describe the licensed features and access points of the Management Connectors packs available for Oracle Enterprise Manager:
Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk
Management Connector for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Enterprise Manager Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk provides seamless integration between Enterprise Manager and Remedy to support a seamless workflow for incident management and resolution.
The Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk enables administrators to open service requests automatically or manually in response to Enterprise Manager alerts. After the service request has been created, Enterprise Manager automatically keeps track of the request ID and updates the Remedy system every time the alert state changes. Additionally, in-context launch of Enterprise Manager from Remedy and vice versa is supported, thereby improving support workflow and streamlining problem resolution.
The following links require licensing of the connector.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the page. Click the Management Connectors link in the side panel. Configuring the connector by clicking on the Configure icon is a licensed feature of the Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Preferences link in the upper right corner of the page. Click the Rules link in the side panel, select a rule in the list, then click Edit. Click the Methods property page. In the Advanced Notification Methods table, any name associated with Remedy is a licensed feature of the Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk.
Click on any alert link, then click one of the metric alerts in the page that follows. The Create/View Ticket link in the Related Links section is a licensed feature of the Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk.
Enterprise Manager Management Connector for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 enables administrators to forward MOM events to Enterprise Manager, thereby enabling better correlation of IT problems across the technology stack.
The following links require licensing of the connector.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the page. Click the Management Connectors link in the side panel. Configuring the connector by clicking on the Configure icon is a licensed feature of the Management Connector for Microsoft Operations Manager.
From the Grid Control Home page, click the Preferences link in the upper right corner of the page. Click the Rules link in the side panel, select a rule in the list, then click Edit. Click the Methods property page. In the Advanced Notification Methods table, any name associated with Remedy is a licensed feature of the Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk.
From the Grid Control Home page, select the Alerts tab, then select the Critical sub-tab. Click a critical alert Target name, then click one of the metric alerts in the page that follows. The Create/View Ticket link in the Related Links section is a licensed feature of the Management Connector for Remedy Help Desk.
