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[Pages:262]Oracle? Enterprise Manager

Concepts 11g Release 11.1.0.1

E11982-03

May 2011

Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts, 11g Release 11.1.0.1

E11982-03

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Contents

Preface ................................................................................................................................................................. xi

Audience....................................................................................................................................................... xi Documentation Accessibility ..................................................................................................................... xi Structure ...................................................................................................................................................... xii Related Documents ................................................................................................................................... xiii Updated Terminology .............................................................................................................................. xiii Conventions ............................................................................................................................................... xiii

1 New Features In Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1

New Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1 .................................... 1-1 Database Management ...................................................................................................................... 1-1 Performance Diagnostics ........................................................................................................... 1-1 SQL Tuning.................................................................................................................................. 1-1 Real Application Clusters .......................................................................................................... 1-1 High Availability ........................................................................................................................ 1-2 Oracle Clusterware ..................................................................................................................... 1-2 Oracle Grid Infrastructure ......................................................................................................... 1-2 Data Masking Enhancements.................................................................................................... 1-2 Change Management Enhancements....................................................................................... 1-2 Real Application Testing Enhancements................................................................................. 1-2 Middleware Management................................................................................................................. 1-2 My Oracle Support Integration ........................................................................................................ 1-7 Lifecycle Management and Provisioning ....................................................................................... 1-7 Oracle Fusion Middleware Domain Provisioning ................................................................. 1-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Domain Scale Up ........................................................................ 1-8 Application Performance Management.......................................................................................... 1-8 Server Management ........................................................................................................................... 1-9 Enterprise Manager Grid Control Framework ........................................................................... 1-10

2 Introduction

Quality of Service: Bridging the Business with IT Infrastructure.................................................. 2-1 Enhanced Application Management and Monitoring ...................................................................... 2-1

Application Dependency and Performance ................................................................................... 2-2 Real User Experience Insight............................................................................................................ 2-2 Business Transaction Management ................................................................................................. 2-2

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Java Diagnostics ................................................................................................................................. 2-3 E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft And Siebel Management And Monitoring ................................. 2-3 Lowering Management Costs Through the Grid ............................................................................... 2-3 Knowing What You Have and What You Are Running .............................................................. 2-3 Certified Configurations: Bringing Harmony to an Ever-Changing Data Center.................... 2-3 Error-Free Automated Provisioning: Linux, Oracle RAC, Certified Images, Patches, Upgrades.. 2-4 Patch Management............................................................................................................................. 2-5 Management for the Complete Oracle Grid Environment .............................................................. 2-6 Extensions and Management Plug-ins............................................................................................ 2-6 Oracle Integrated Management Partnerships ................................................................................ 2-7 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................. 2-7

3 Overview of Enterprise Manager Grid Control

Overview.................................................................................................................................................... 3-1 Enterprise Manager Architecture .......................................................................................................... 3-1 Key Features .............................................................................................................................................. 3-3

System Monitoring............................................................................................................................. 3-3 Managing Groups .............................................................................................................................. 3-5 Job System ........................................................................................................................................... 3-5 Information Publisher........................................................................................................................ 3-6 Compliance Management ................................................................................................................. 3-6 Extending Enterprise Manager ........................................................................................................ 3-7 Managing Targets .............................................................................................................................. 3-8

4 Enterprise Configuration Management

Hardware and Software Configurations.............................................................................................. 4-1 Collected Configurations .................................................................................................................. 4-1 Viewing Configurations .................................................................................................................... 4-2 Comparing Configurations............................................................................................................... 4-4 The Enterprise Configuration........................................................................................................... 4-5 Viewing the Enterprise Configuration..................................................................................... 4-5 Searching the Enterprise Configuration .................................................................................. 4-5 Viewing the Enterprise Configuration History ...................................................................... 4-6 Client Configurations ........................................................................................................................ 4-7 Client System Analyzer in Grid Control ................................................................................. 4-7 Client System Analyzer Deployed Independently ................................................................ 4-7

Accessing Configuration Pages in Grid Control................................................................................ 4-8 Configuration Change Console ............................................................................................................. 4-8 Application Change Console ................................................................................................................. 4-9

5 Host and Third-Party Target Management

Host Management .................................................................................................................................... 5-1 Monitoring Hosts ............................................................................................................................... 5-2 Host Home Page ......................................................................................................................... 5-2 Host Performance Page.............................................................................................................. 5-3

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Host Configuration Page ........................................................................................................... 5-4 Operating System Details .......................................................................................................... 5-4 Hardware Details ........................................................................................................................ 5-5 Log File Monitoring .................................................................................................................... 5-6 Program Resource Utilization Monitoring.............................................................................. 5-6 File and Directory Monitoring .................................................................................................. 5-7 Hardware Monitoring for Dell PowerEdge Systems............................................................. 5-7 Storage Resource Tracking ............................................................................................................... 5-8 Host Administration.......................................................................................................................... 5-9 Linux Host Administration ....................................................................................................... 5-9 Execute Host Command ......................................................................................................... 5-10 Job System ................................................................................................................................. 5-10 Remote File Editor ................................................................................................................... 5-10 Managing Host Deployments ................................................................................................ 5-11 Third-Party Target Management ....................................................................................................... 5-11 Support for Third-Party Application Servers ............................................................................. 5-11 Support for Third-Party Plug-Ins ................................................................................................. 5-12 Network Appliance Filer ............................................................................................................... 5-13 F5 Load Balancer Switches............................................................................................................. 5-14

6 Database Management

Introduction to Database Management ............................................................................................... 6-1 Database Control Versus Grid Control........................................................................................... 6-1 Database Home Page as the Management Hub ............................................................................ 6-2

Monitoring Databases ............................................................................................................................. 6-3 Assessing Database Performance .................................................................................................... 6-4 Diagnosing Problems Interactively ................................................................................................. 6-6 Investigating a Wait Class ......................................................................................................... 6-6 Viewing SQL Details ........................................................................................................... 6-7 Viewing Session Details...................................................................................................... 6-7 Viewing Top Activity ................................................................................................................. 6-8 Monitoring Real-time SQL......................................................................................................... 6-9 Diagnosing Problems Automatically ........................................................................................... 6-11 Using Additional Diagnostic Pages.............................................................................................. 6-12 Top Consumers ........................................................................................................................ 6-12 Instance Activity ...................................................................................................................... 6-12 Historical SQL .......................................................................................................................... 6-13 Using Other Performance Tools.................................................................................................... 6-14 Topology Viewer...................................................................................................................... 6-14 AWR Baselines ......................................................................................................................... 6-15 Memory Access Mode ............................................................................................................. 6-16 Hang Analysis .......................................................................................................................... 6-16

Administering Databases .................................................................................................................... 6-16 Managing Storage Objects ............................................................................................................. 6-17 Using Database Configuration Features...................................................................................... 6-17 Using Automatic Storage Management....................................................................................... 6-17 Converting Single Instances to Oracle Real Application Clusters........................................... 6-18

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Converting to a Locally-Managed Tablespace............................................................................ Controlling Resources with Resource Manager ......................................................................... Tracking Statistics to Improve Database Performance .............................................................. Using Oracle Scheduler .................................................................................................................. Working With Database Schemas................................................................................................. Managing Database Objects .......................................................................................................... XML Database Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager ............................................................ Managing Users and Privileges .................................................................................................... Managing Materialized Views ...................................................................................................... About Change Management ......................................................................................................... Using Advisors in Oracle Enterprise Manager........................................................................... Managing Database Security .............................................................................................................. Managing Users, Roles, Profiles, and Audit Settings ................................................................ Transparent Data Encryption ........................................................................................................ Oracle Label Security (OLS)........................................................................................................... Virtual Private Database (VPD) .................................................................................................... Application Contexts ...................................................................................................................... Enterprise User Security................................................................................................................. Oracle Database Vault .................................................................................................................... Masking Sensitive Data for Non-production Use .......................................................................... Security and Regulatory Compliance .......................................................................................... Roles of Data Masking Users ......................................................................................................... Format Libraries and Masking Definitions ................................................................................. Recommended Data Masking Workflow .................................................................................... Data Masking Task Sequence........................................................................................................ Defining New Masking Formats................................................................................................... Using Oracle-supplied Predefined Masking Formats ...............................................................

Patterns of Format Definitions ............................................................................................... Category Definitions................................................................................................................ Installing the DM_FMTLIB Package ..................................................................................... Agent Compatibility for Data Masking ....................................................................................... Supported Data Types.................................................................................................................... Creating a Masking Definition ...................................................................................................... Adding Dependent Columns ........................................................................................................ Cloning the Production Database................................................................................................. Using Reorganize Objects with LONG Columns ....................................................................... Using Data Masking with LONG Columns ................................................................................ Deterministic Masking ................................................................................................................... Use Cases.......................................................................................................................................... Related Oracle Security Offerings ................................................................................................ Maintaining Databases ........................................................................................................................ Using Backup................................................................................................................................... Recovery ........................................................................................................................................... Flashback Recovery......................................................................................................................... Backup and Recovery Settings ...................................................................................................... Managing Restore Points ............................................................................................................... Overview of Data Guard................................................................................................................

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Additional Maintenance Features...................................................................................................... Exporting and Importing Features ............................................................................................... Cloning Databases........................................................................................................................... Transporting Tablespaces .............................................................................................................. Overview of Oracle Streams.......................................................................................................... Working with Software Configurations ...................................................................................... Using Database Software Patching...............................................................................................

Monitoring Oracle Real Application Clusters................................................................................. Cluster Cache Coherency............................................................................................................... Cluster Interconnects ...................................................................................................................... Cluster-Managed Database Services ............................................................................................ Policy-managed and Administrator-managed Databases ........................................................ Oracle Clusterware and High Availability.................................................................................. Database High Availability ...........................................................................................................

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7 Change Management for Databases

Overview of Change Management for Databases ............................................................................. 7-1 Dictionary Baselines ................................................................................................................................ 7-2

Scope Specification............................................................................................................................. 7-2 Capturing a Dictionary Baseline Version ....................................................................................... 7-4 Working With A Dictionary Baseline Version............................................................................... 7-4 Working With Multiple Dictionary Baseline Versions ................................................................. 7-5 Exporting and Importing Dictionary Baselines ............................................................................. 7-6

Creating Directory Objects for Export and Import ................................................................ 7-7 Dictionary Comparisons ......................................................................................................................... 7-7

Defining Dictionary Comparisons................................................................................................... 7-8 Working with Dictionary Comparison Versions........................................................................ 7-10 Dictionary Synchronizations .............................................................................................................. 7-12 Defining Dictionary Synchronizations......................................................................................... 7-13 Creating a Synchronization Definition from a Comparison..................................................... 7-15 Working with Dictionary Synchronization Versions................................................................. 7-16

The Dictionary Synchronization Cycle ................................................................................. 7-16 Creating Additional Synchronization Versions.......................................................................... 7-22

8 Service Management

Introduction to Services .......................................................................................................................... 8-1 Defining Services in Enterprise Manager ....................................................................................... 8-1

Modeling Services.................................................................................................................................... 8-2 Availability.......................................................................................................................................... 8-2 Performance and Usage .................................................................................................................... 8-3 Business Metrics ................................................................................................................................. 8-3 Setting Service-Level Rules............................................................................................................... 8-4 Monitoring Templates for Services.................................................................................................. 8-4

Managing Systems ................................................................................................................................... 8-4 Creating Systems................................................................................................................................ 8-4 Monitoring Systems ........................................................................................................................... 8-5

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Monitoring Services................................................................................................................................. 8-6 Services Dashboard............................................................................................................................ 8-6 System Topology................................................................................................................................ 8-7 Service Topology ................................................................................................................................ 8-8 Reports ................................................................................................................................................. 8-9 Notifications, Alerts, and Baselines................................................................................................. 8-9 Service Performance .......................................................................................................................... 8-9 Monitoring Web Application Services ......................................................................................... 8-10 Transactions .............................................................................................................................. 8-10 End-User Performance Monitoring....................................................................................... 8-10 Monitoring Forms Applications.................................................................................................... 8-11 Forms Transactions.................................................................................................................. 8-11 End-User Performance Monitoring....................................................................................... 8-11

Diagnosing Service Problems............................................................................................................. 8-12 Root Cause Analysis ....................................................................................................................... 8-12

9 Middleware Management

Introduction to Middleware Management.......................................................................................... 9-1 Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to Manage the Oracle Fusion Middleware Environment.............................................................................................................................................. 9-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Control versus Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control .............. 9-2

Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware with Fusion Middleware Control................................. 9-2 Managing Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control ... 9-3 Adding Middleware Targets to Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control ................................... 9-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Components........................................................................................ 9-5 Oracle Application Server Components ......................................................................................... 9-7 Non-Oracle Middleware Components ........................................................................................... 9-7 Out-of-Box Monitoring of Middleware Targets ................................................................................. 9-7 Target Home Page.............................................................................................................................. 9-7 Out-of-box Metrics ............................................................................................................................. 9-9 Analyzing Historical Performance ............................................................................................... 9-10 Setting Metric Thresholds for Alert Notifications ...................................................................... 9-11 Monitoring Templates .................................................................................................................... 9-11 Managing and Creating Blackouts ............................................................................................... 9-11 Extend Monitoring for Applications Deployed to WebLogic Server ...................................... 9-12 Request Monitoring ........................................................................................................................ 9-12

Defining and Managing Transactions Being Monitored.................................................... 9-13 Diagnosing Performance Problems ................................................................................................... 9-15

Using Home Pages to Diagnose Performance Issues ................................................................ 9-15 Using Application Dependency and Performance to Monitor Middleware Targets............ 9-16

Using Application Dependency and Performance ............................................................. 9-16 Using Java Diagnostics to Identify and Troubleshoot Performance Issues............................ 9-17

Using Java Diagnostics in Oracle Enterprise Manager ...................................................... 9-17 Administering Middleware Targets .................................................................................................. 9-18

Process Control................................................................................................................................ 9-18 Creating WebLogic Domain Groups............................................................................................ 9-19 Managing Configurations ................................................................................................................... 9-19

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