Duration: 40 Classroom Hours, weekends and weekday evenings. ORACLE Access: 2 Months ORACLE access for practice and home study from the date of enrollment.
Course Overview
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control delivers centralized management functionality for the complete Oracle IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies. With a broad set of administration, configuration management, provisioning, end-to-end monitoring, and security capabilities, Oracle Grid Control reduces the cost and complexity of managing grid computing environments. Robust service level management functionality within Oracle Grid Control dramatically improves service levels through rich transaction and end-user performance monitoring and deep diagnostics for multi-tier Internet applications. Oracle Grid Control also offers a comprehensive extensibility framework for management of custom applications and integration with other management tools. These capabilities allow companies to deliver superior performance for their systems and applications, while continually reducing management complexity and costs.
Course Objective:
Discuss installation and configuration of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control framework
Administer Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
Use the Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control job system
Explore Grid Control's ability to manage Oracle and non-Oracle targets
Monitor Web Applications using Application Service Level Monitoring (ASLM)
Secure Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of Oracle Database management
A basic understanding of Network Topology
A basic understanding of Oracle Application Server
Who Should Attend?
Database administrators
Application Server administrators
System administrators
Course Outline
Grid Control Architecture
Explain the components of Grid Control Architecture
Discuss targets that can be managed using Grid Control
Communication protocols between the components
Identify the built-in security features of Grid Control
Discuss the importance of HA and Grid Control infrastructure
Grid Control Deployment
Discuss hardware requirements and pre-requisites
Identify installation options for Management Repository
Agent deployment
Time zone considerations
Default port assignments and how to change them
Discuss post-installation configuration
Understanding the use of Repmanager and AgentCA
Grid Control Security
Configure Firewalls for Grid Control
Explain OMS Locking and Agent Securing
Configuring Grid Control for use with Enterprise User Security
Monitoring Grid Control
Monitoring the availability of Grid Control components
Identifying log and trace files
Identifying startup and shutdown procedures for Grid Control components
Determine best practices for keeping the Grid Control healthy
Monitor EM Website Web Application
Configuring Grid Control
Creating Roles
Creating Administrators
Granting Privileges
Setting up Preferred Credentials
Discuss EMCLI
Common Managed Targets - Hosts
Monitoring host availability and resource usage
Using Remote File Editor
Viewing Storage Details for host
Validating host metrics
Evaluate CPU Utilization for a host
Explain host management and monitoring features
Common Managed Targets - Oracle Databases
Grid Control -vs- Database Control
Managing Oracle databases
Understanding Adaptive Metric Baselines
Examine Database Administration features
Examine Database Maintenance features
Examine Performance Management features
Common Managed Targets - Oracle Application Servers
Application availability monitoring
Monitoring performance of J2EE applications
Diagnosing J2EE application performance problems
Stopping and restarting application server components
Explain Application Server performance monitoring features
Monitoring the Data Center
Understanding out-of-the-box monitoring features
Changing metric settings
Creating Monitoring Templates
Setting up email notification for alerts
Creating User-Defined Metrics
Defining Notification Schedules
Defining Corrective Actions
Creating Blackouts
Groups
Understanding the use of groups
Defining Groups
Managing and Monitoring Groups
Using Groups in Notification Rules
Configuring notification for administrators
Systems and Services
Understanding and defining Systems
Defining Topology relationships
Viewing System Topologies
Creating a service based on a system
Defining and monitoring the availability of a service
Job System
Creating Job in Grid Control
Using Job Notification
Creating Multi-task Jobs
Viewing Rollup of Job Activity
Configuration Management
Understanding enterprise deployment
Searching and comparing hosts
Comparing database configurations
Examining initialization parameters
Managing Policies
Discuss Policy Violations
Discuss Client System Analyzer
Provisioning
Explain Provisioning Concepts
Discuss Bare-Metal Provisioning
Perform Cloning Operation
Applying Patch
Setup Metalink
Information Publisher
Viewing out-of-the-box reports
Customizing out-of-the-box reports
Granting privileges of the reports
Using the management repository and baseline view
Scheduling reports that be e-mailed
Management Plug-ins
Discuss benefits of managing 3rd-party components with Grid Control
Viewing list of non-oracle middleware targets and their health
Monitoring performance of J2EE applications
Understanding plug-in deployment mechanism
Understanding how to create custom management plug-ins