Database Reference
In-Depth Information
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An essential aspect of any successful SOA deployment is the ability to con-
tinuously monitor mission-critical services, business processes, events, and
service levels in real time to immediately identify problems and take correct-
ive action.
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SOA infrastructure monitoring provides visibility into the performance of each
individual service transaction across distributed and heterogeneous sys-
tems. With this end-to-end visibility, problems could be spotted quickly and
corrected to ensure reliable operations.
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The SOA infrastructure is also expected to enforce policies for runtime gov-
ernance.
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The ability to easily and efficiently automate deployments is equally import-
ant as it enables the administrator to rapidly respond to continuous code
changes.
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Proper management of
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
is required by
defining, tracking, and controlling appropriate service levels. It also provides
a necessary alert mechanism in the event of an SLA violation.
In this chapter, we will provide an overview of Oracle SOA Suite 11g monitoring
and management, which ultimately serves as a prelude for the remainder of this
book. Here, we will introduce various topics ranging from centralized monitoring
and code deployment to performance tuning and scaling the infrastructure. This
topic describes each of these areas and more, in varying degrees of detail, to
arm you with the necessary background and understanding, as well as detailed
instructions on how to perform key administrative tasks within the Oracle SOA
Suite 11g product stack. In this chapter, we will introduce the following:
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Overcoming monitoring and management challenges in SOA
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Monitoring the SOA platform—centralized management and monitoring
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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Infrastructure Stack
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Performance monitoring and management
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Managing composite application lifecycles
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Cloning domains from test to production
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Introducing Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
