Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
to Oracle VM and Oracle Solaris Containers. Among the supported features are
discovery and topology management, support for virtual DataCenter and server pool
architectures, fault monitoring, Automatic Service Requests (ASR) and My Oracle Sup‐
port integration, BIOS and firmware automation, operating system bare metal provi‐
sioning and performance monitoring, patch automation, configuration and compliance
reporting, and energy usage awareness and management.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Consoles
EM's popularity grew as deployment of the Oracle Database expanded within companies
to multiple operating systems and as additional Oracle software components were added
to the mix. EM provides a common interface to managing all of these environments in
a wide array of traditional and cloud deployment models, something that DBA scripts
were not usually designed for. Further, the Enterprise Manager 12
c
Cloud Control con‐
sole and framework provide simple access to new database self-monitoring features,
respond to alerts, and manage jobs, reports, roles, and privileges.
We are now going to look further at the layout of the Enterprise Manager 12
c
Cloud
Control console, current as this edition of
Oracle Essentials
was published. Oracle often
changes the scope of Enterprise Manager capabilities and interface details, so you will
want to explore the version you have deployed. But some of the basic functionality for
database management consistently appears in the various EM versions.
Logging into Enterprise Manager after installation requires that you provide an ad‐
ministrator username and password. As we saw in
Figure 5-1
, when viewing databases
you are monitoring, you are presented with the general status, a diagnostic and resource
summary, job activities, the status of individual Oracle Databases, an incident report,
and a list of hosts and their status (not shown in the figure due to limitations in how
much is visible on the screen—you'd simply scroll down the screen to see this). You'll
also notice in the upper-left corner of the screenshot links into cluster management and
administration.
Cluster management provides monitoring metrics concerning the cluster status history,
an incident manager, alert history, and list of blackouts. Job activities in the cluster are
presented and there is an interface for publishing standard reports about the overall
status. There is also a performance status area that shows performance of interconnects
and member targets. The cluster topology and compliance status can be viewed here
(see
Figure 5-3
). There is also an interface for setting up new targets.
